booke of your Conscience See what is there written for or against you When you finde that your selfe and life is according to the rule of God booke keepe fast to that with comfort but wherein you finde your selfe not to be according to this rule give your selfe no rest untill in some good measure at least in indevour you doe live according to it I have insisted the more largely on this point of meditation because of the rarenes necessitie and profitablenesse of it manie of Gods people omit it because they know not how to doe it and because they know not their neede nor yet the benefit which they may reape by it I have indevoured to shew you how That you have neede to meditate Consider that reading hearing and transient thoughts of the best things upon whatsoever occasion leave not halfe that impression of goodnesse upon the soule which they would doe if â—y meditation they might be recalled and be made to stay and â—t sometime upon it Without â—his meditation the good food of the soule passeth thorow the understanding either is quite â—ost or is like raw indigested â—â—eate which doth not nourish those creatures that chew the â—â—d till they have fetched it â—acke and chewed it better Meditation is in stead of chewing â—he cud All the outward meanes of Salvation doe little good in comparison except by meditation they be pondered and laid up in the heart 2. That meditation will doâ— you much good know it by these 1 It doth digest ingraft and turne the spirituall knowledge tendered in Gods ordinances into you and it doth frame and turne you into it so that Gods will in his Word and your will become one willing the same things 2 Meditation fitteth for prayer nothing more 3 This Meditation maketh for practice of godlinesse nothing more 4 Nothing doth perfect make a man an expert Christian more then this 5 Nothing doth mak a man know and enjoy himselfe with inward comfort nor is a clearer evideÌ„ce that he is in state of happines then this For in the multitude of my thoughts within me â—aith David to GOD thy comforts delight my soule And he doth by the Spirit of GOD pronounce every man blessed that doth thus meditate in Gods Law day and night CHAP. IX Of keeping Company as in the sight of God SECTION 1. VVHen you shall be in company of whatsoever â—…rt you must amongst them â—alke with God Directions hereunto are of two â—…rts First shewing how towards â—ll Secondly how towards good â—r bad First in whatsoever companie you are your Conversation in word and deede must be such as â—aâ— procure 1 Glory to God â—2 Credit to Religion 3 All â—…utuall lawfull content helpe and â—…ue benefit to each other For these â—…re the ends first of societie secondly of the variety of the good â—ifts that GOD hath given unto men to doe good with To attain these ends your conversation must be 1. holy 2. humble 3. wise 4. loving First it must be holy you must as much as in you is prevent all evill speech behaviour which might else breake forth being alike carefull to breake it off if it be alreadie begun in your company Suffer not the name and Religion of God nor yet your brothers name to be traduced but in due place and manner contest against either Be diliget to watch and to take all good occasions to utter and to nourish good speech and good motions even whatsoever may tend to the practice and increase of godlinesse and honestie Secondly your conversation must be humble You must give all due respect to all men according to their severall places and gifts reverencing your betters submitting to all in authoritie over you Esteeme your equals better then your selves in honor preferring them before you Condescend unto and tender them of the lower sort Thirdly you must be wise and â—iscreet in your carriage towards all and that in divers particulars 1. Be not too open nor too reserved Not over-suspicious nor over-credulous For the simple beleeveth every word but the prudent looketh well to his going 2. Apply your selfe to the severall conditions dispositions of men in all indifferent things so farre as you may without sin against God or offence to your brother becomming all things to all men comporting with them in such sort that if it be possible you may live in peace with them and may gaine some interest in them to doe them good But farre be it from you to be as many who under this pretence are for all companies seeming religious with those that be religious but indeed are prophane and licentious with those that are prophane licentious for this is carnal policy and damnable hypocrisie no true wisedome 3. Intermeddle not with other mens businesse but upon due calling 4. Know when to speake and when to be silent How excellent is a word spoken in season As either speech or silence will make for the glory of God and for the cause of Religion and good one of another so speake and so hold your peace 5. Be not hastie to speake nor be much in speaking but onely when just cause shall require for as it is shame and folly to a man to answer a matter before he heare it so it is for any to speake before his time turne This is commended to you in the example of Elihu in Iob. Likewise know that in the multitude of words wanteth not sin but he that refraineth his lips is wise 6. Be sparing to speake of your selfe or actions to your owne prayse except in case of necessary Apologie and defence of Gods cause maintained by you and in the clearing of your wronged innocency or needfull manifestation of Gods power and grace in you but then it must be with all moddestie giving the prayse unto God Neither must you cunningly hunt for prayse by debasing or excusing your selfe and actions that you might give occasion to draw forth commendations of your selfe from others This seeking of prayse any way argueth pride and folly But doe prayse-worthy actions seeking therein the prayse of God that God may be glorified in you then you shall have prayse of God whatsoever you have of maÌ„ Howsoever follow SalomoÌ„s rule Let another prayse thee not thine owne mouth a stranger and not thine owne lips 7. As you must bee wise in your carriage toward others so you must be wise for your selfe which is to make a good use to your selfe of all things that fall out â—â— company Let the good you seâ— be â—â—â—â—er of conâ—ent and of thankes to GOD and for your imitaâ—ion Let the evill you see be matter of grefe humiliation and a warning to you lest you commit the like sith you are made of the same mould that others are made of If men
of Iesus Christ a painefull and profitable Minister of the Gospell For the matter of the booke use it as thy daily Counsellour For the manner and occasion of penning it use it and learn to write by this coppy I meane stirre up the gifts of God that are in thee to become more profitable to others both in presence by discourse and in absence by writing How are wee bound to blesse God for those Epistles which the Apostles wrote not onely to whole Churches but also to private persons Nor was this course extraordinary and proper onely to those persons and times In succeeding ages to this day the beleevers have beene much edified by this course In the Greeke Church Chrysostome wrote divers Epistles amongst the rest in the last of them hee takes occasion to commend Olympia to whom hee wrote that Epistle for her delighting to employ him in answering questions and resolving doubts Athanasius besides divers Epistles to others wrote a little booke to Antiochus containing answers to 162. questions Basil wrote about 180. Epistles amongst which in his 81. Epistle exhorting Eusâ—â—â—hius to more frequency in writing he gives this reason because they say saith he that Wells are bettered by being drained out Amongst the Latine Fathers Hierome wrote divers Epistles there is one which Erasmus fathers upon Paulinus Nolanus written to Celantia wherein are many pithy and remarkeable directions about walking with God in a holy course which is the Argument of this Booke it is a large Epistle and worthy to be often read In S. Ambrose his works are ten bookes of Epistles amongst which in his 41. and 45. Epistle to Sâ—binus hee commends this course of instructing one another by writing In S. Augustins workes are to bee found 242. Epistles in the first of which hee exhorts Volusianus to whom hee wrote to reade the Scriptures and bids him if hee doubt to write promising that he will answer him he addes also two reasons of his Counsell the second whereof is because a writing is ever ready when a man is fit to reade nor is that any burden saith he which a man may take up or lay downe at his pleasure Hee that reades his Epistles at leasure advisedly shall finde many errours confuted many doubts answered many truths cleared many usefull directions for a holy life recorded and layd up in those Epistles as so many lewels in a rich Cabinet for the good of posteritie for ever If thence we come to these latter times and see what large and elaborate and learned Epistles Calvin Beza Drusius and others have written in other Countreyes Or looke into those holy Letters of Bradford and other blessed Martyrs in our owne language besides many since wee shall conclude that this course hath beene of no small use for the direction and comfort of Gods people in all ages I 'le adde one thing more concerning our owne Nation and times It 's pittie and to be lamented that so many worthy Letters as are written upon speciall occasins for resolution of spirituall doubts from day today by one or other are impâ—isoned in secret Closets and Cabinets which if they were brought to light and published I am perswadea would not onely exceede all that ever hath beene done in this course since the Apostles time but also be the best helpe for resolution of many hundred cases and doubts which disquiet Christians that ever hath beene or except some such course be taken ever will be in the world I will briefly touch one or two obiections more which some may interpose against this worke and so conclude Many have already written on these subiects and therefore this is superfluous True it is Many have written on this subiect largely and worthily as Master Rogers in seaven Treatises abridged by Master Stephen Egerton and Master Iohn Downam in a large and usefull worke and that I may not forget him whom in some respects I should first have mentioned the Reverend Deane of Worcester Doctor Hall that true Christian English Seneca Also Master Bolton whose generall directions for comfortable walking with God are deservedly approved of the most iudicious Yet I answer first That is never too often taught that is never sufficiently learned Secondly In the mouth of two or three witnesses the truth is confirmed Thirdly As God is much glorified so the Church is much edified by varietie of gifts Paul Apollos and Cephas are yours and you Christs Fourthly The Christian and intelligent Reader shall find in this some things new other things expressed in a new manner all digested in such a Method with such brevity and perspicuity as was necessary to make the Booke a vâ—de mecum easily portable and profitable to the poore and â—â—iterate But it exceeds the limits and proportion of a Letter The first Coppy was more briefe upon occasion of a second Letter wherein some other cases were propounded the iudicious Author not onely handled these Arguments largely in his publicke Ministery but also added more particulars for his friends full satisfaction in a second coppy hence it came to this â—antitie But lest whilest I plead for him I should seeme to be guiltie of the same fault my selfe I will here stop wishing thee Gentle and honest hearted Reader to consider that account must be given of what thou readest as well as of what thou hearest and therefore to ioyne prayer with thy reading that spirituall wisedome and strength may bee increased in thee for the practice of what thou learnest So I commend the booke to thy reading and thee and it to Gods blessing From my study in Coleman-street London this 25. of April 1627. Thine in the Lord Iesus IOHN DAVENPORT THE CHRISTIANS DAILY WALKE CHAP. I. Of walking with GOD in generall BEloved Friend observing your forwardnesse and zeale in seeking to know how â—â—u might please God and saue â—â—ur soule I thought it would acceptable and profitable to â—â—u if I should by the infalliâ—â—e Rule of GODS Word diâ—â—ct you how with most certainty ipeed and ease you might attaine to this your holy ayme Wherefore considering that most of Gods children do make their lives unprofitable and uncoÌ„fortable by troubling themselves about many thing and that too much in things lesâ—… needfull by caring and fearing what shal betide them their hereafter in things concerning this present life that you might compasse that one thing needfuâ—… and containe your selfe within your owne line and calling amongst other things I exhort ted you heedfully to apply your selfe to doe each present dayâ— work with Christian cheerfulnesse and to beare each present dayes â—…vil with Christian patieÌ„ce When upon in your â—…t Letters yoâ—… earnestly intreâ—â—ed mee to givâ— you directions to that purpose What my meditations thâ—… afforded I wrote to you Since that time I have preached 〈…〉 walking with God in vprightnesse â—ut of Gen. 17. 1. Also of freedome from carefulnesse and of the excellency and means of peace
and take the first opportunity to ask the meaning of some or other whose lips should preserve knowledge Let no colourable pretence keepe you from diligent reading of Gods Booke for hereby you shall be better prepared to heare the Word preached For it layeth a ground-worke to preaching making way to a better understanding thereof and to â—…ter â—eeping it in memory â— also to enaâ—le you to try the Spirits and Doctrines delivered even to try all things and to keepe what is good 1. In reading mens writings reade the best or at least those by which you can profit most 2. Reade a good booke thorowly and with due consideration 3. Reject not hastily any thing you reade because of the mean opinion you have of the authoâ— Beleeve not every thing yoâ— reade because of the great opinâ— on you have of him that wrote it But in all bookes of faith and manners try all things by the Scriptures Receive nothing upon the bare testimony or judgement of any man any further then hee can confirme it by the Canon of the word or by evidence of reason or by undoubted experience alwayes provided that what you call reason and experience be according unto not against the Word If the meanest speake according to it then receive and regard it but if the most judicious in your esteeme yea if he were an Angell of GOD should speake or write otherwise refuse and reject it Thus much for privat reading Onely take this Caution You must not thinke it to be sufficient that you read the Scriptures and other good Bookes at home in private when you shall by so doing neglect the hearing of the Word read and preached in publike For God hath not appointed that reading alone or preaching alone or prayer or Sacraments should singly and alone save any man where all or more then one of them may be had but he requireth the joynt use of them all in their place and time And in this variety of means of salvation God hath in his holy wisedome ordained them to be such that the excellency and sufficiencie of the one shall nâ—t in its right use keepe any from but leade him unto a due performance of the other each serving to make the other more effectuall to produce their common effect namely the Salvation of mans soule Indeed when a man is necessarily hindred by persecution sicknesse or otherwise that he cannot heare the Word preached then God doth blesse reading with an humble honest heart without hearing the Word preached But where hearing the Word preached is either contemned or neglected for reading sake or for prayer sake or for any other good private dutie there no man can looke to bee blessed in his reading or in any other private dutie but cursed rather Witnesse the evill effects which by experience we see doe issue thence viz. Selfe-conceitednesse Singularity in some dangerous opinions many times a rending away from the Church by Schisme yea too oft a falling away into damnable Heresies and Apostacie SECTION 3. Of meditation VVHen you are alone then also is a fit season for you to be taken up in holy meditation For according to a mans meditations such is the man The liberall man deviseth liberall things the Churle the contrary The godly man studieth how to please God the wicked how to please himselfe In meditation the minde or reason of the soule stayeth it selfe upon some thing conceived or thought upon for the better understanding thereof and for the better application of it to a mans selfe for use In meditating a right the mind of man exerciseth two kind of acts the one direct upon the thing meditated the other reflect upon himselfe the person meditating The first is an act of the contemplative part of the undâ—rstanding the second is an act of Conscience The end of the first is to enlighten the mind with knowledge the end of the second is to fil the heart with goodnesse The first serveth I speake of morall actions to finde out the rule whereby you may know more clearely distinctly what is truth what is falshood what is good what is bad whom you should obey what manner of person you should be and what you should doe and the like The second serveth to direct you how to make a right and profitable application of your selfe and of your actions to the Rule In this latter are these two acts First an examination whether you and your actions bee according to the Rule or whether you come short or are severed from it giving true judgment of you according as it doth finde you The second is a perswasive and commanding act charging the soule in every faculty understanding will affections yea the whole man to reforme and conforme themselves to the Rule that is to the will of God if that you finde your selfe not to be according to it which is done by confessing the fault to God with remorse praying for forgivenes returning to God by repentance reforming the fault through new obedience This must be the resolution of the soule And all this a man must charge upon his soule peremptorily commanding himselfe to endevour the doing of them When you meditate joyne all these three acts else you shall never bring your meditation unto a profitable issue For if you onely muse and studie to finde out what is true what is false what is good what is bad you may gaine much knowledge of the head but little goodnesse to your heart If you onely apply to your selfe that wheron you have mused and no more you may by finding your selfe to bee a transgressour lay guilt upon your conscience and terrour upon your heart without fruit or comfort but if to these two you lay a charge upon your selfe to follow GODS counsell touching what you should beleeve doe when you have offended him if you with all bring your heart to a resolution through GODS grace to be such an one as you ought to be and to live such a life for hereafter as you ought to live then unto science you shall adde conscience and to knowledge you shall joyne practice and shall fill your selfe full of comfort Observe Davids meditations you shall finde they come to this issue His thoughts of God and of his wayes made him turne his feete unto Gods testimonies The meditation of Gods benefits made him resolve to take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord and to pay his vowes When he considered what God had done for him and thence inferred what he should be to God againe he saith to his soule My soule and all that is in mee prayse his holy Name When hee in his meditation found that it was his fault to have his soule disquieted in him through distrust he chargeth it to wait on GOD and raiseth up himselfe unto confidence I will meditate on thy precepts saith
may judge theÌ„selves to be more barren in their age then they were in their youth It may be you feele not in you that vigour heat and abilitie to performe good duties now in age as you did in your younger dayes But may not this arise from naturall defects as from want of memorie want of quicknesse of wit and from want of naturall heate and vigour of your spirits all which are excellent hand-maids to grace You may observe this in those elder people that studie to approve themselves to God untill their age and in their age they have these naturall defects recompenced with other better and more lasting fruit as with more staydnesse and soundnesse of Iudgement more humility more patience and more experience where with their gray hayrs are crowned they continuing in the way of righteousnesse Looke for these and looke to approve your selves in these in your age and these will prove more beneficiall to you than your fresh feelings and your sensibly-felt zeale in your younger times There are yet others it may be the same when they observe that many who are of longer standing than themselves who have had much more knowledge and have made a further progresse in the practice of godlinesse than they are yet fallen fear fully into some grosse sinne or sinnes yea some of them are departed from the faith have embraced with Demas this present World either in the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye or pride of life They are some of them fallen to Popery or to some other false Religion Wherefore they feare that they shall fall away also and that their hearts will deceive them in the end That the falls of others should make all that doe stand to take â—eede lest they fall is according â—o the expresse will of God It is â—â— high point of wisedome for â—ou to observe and doe it Likeâ—ise to feare so much as to quicken you to watchfulnesse and â—â—ayer is an holy and commendable feare But to feare your totall or finall falling away onely because some that have made profession of the same Religion are fallen is without ground For it may bee those which you see to be fallen away never had any other than a forme of godlinesse and never had more than the common graces gifts of the Spirit For if they be quite fallen from the faith it is because they were never soundly of the faith Moreover grant that some of them which are â—â—â—â—n had saving grace may they not with David and Salomon recover their fals This you should hope and pray for rather than by occasion of their falls to trouble your selfe with false and fruitlesse feare Last of all some yet feare that if persecution should come because of the Word and the Religion which they doe professe that they should never hold out but should fall away Doe you thus feare Then buckle close unto you the compleat armour with the girdle of sinceritie exercise your selves before-hand at your spirituall weapons make and keepe your peace with GOD under whom at such times you must shelter your selves by whose power it is that you must stand in that evill day But know that a child of GOD need not feare persecution with such discouragefull and such desperate feare neither should you for this will but give advantage to your enemies of all sorts and will make your â—â—andsfeeble your hearts faint Raise up your spirits and chase way your feare thus Consider he goodnesse of your cause Consider the wisedome â—valour and prowesse of him that hath already â—edeemed you with his bloud who hath already led captivitie â—aptive who is your Champion and hath engaged himselfe for you not to leave you untill he hath brought you to glorie I meane Christ Iesus who is Lord of heasts under whose Banner you fight in your whole Christian warfare Consider likewise the faithfulnesse of Gods promise made to all his Children concerning his presence and helpe in time of persecution commanding them not to take thought thereabout having promised to give them a mouth and wisedome which all their adversaries shall not be able to resist And suppose that you have or at least feele that you have but little strength yet consider if it bee cherished thankfully acknowledged what this will doe it will cause you to keepe Gods word and that you shall not deny Christs name and it hath a promise of being kept from the houre of temptation that shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth you shall be kept at least from the hurt of the temptation Consider last of all the blessed experience which the holy Martyrs have had of GODS love and helpe according to his promise in their greatest persecutions and fiery trialls Observe the wisedome and courage of those who in their owne nature were but simple and fearefull Reade the Booke of Martyrs next unto the Scriptures for this purpose and through GODS grace though you were naturally as feareful as Hares you when you shall bee called to it shall be as couragious as Lyons It is not hard for you to know now whether you shal be able in time of persecution to stand fast and not fall away If you now in the peace of the Gospell can deny your selves in your lusts in love to God and for Conscience sake towards him and can rather part with them than with the sincere following of CHRIST then you shall be able and you will deny your selves in the matter of your life if you be put to it in time of persecution rather than deny CHRIST For this first is as difficult as the latter and the same love to GOD and Conscience of duty which doth now uphold you and beare you through the one will then rather uphold and beare you thorow the other For in times of triall and suffering for his name you may looke for his more speciall assistance Wherefore I doe wish all that are troubled with false feares to rest satisfied in these answers to their doubts and I would have them give over calling their Election Gods love their Iustification their Sanctification or their finall perseverance into question but rather fill your selves with hope and assurance of GODS favour I speake still to burdned Consciences comforting your selves therein abounding in thankesgiving to GOD for what you have rather than repining in your selves for what you want Yet I know there are some as if they were made all of doubting will object my heart is deceitfull I doubt all is not I doubt all will not be well with mee If your heart bee deceitfull Why then doe you beleeve it when it casteth in these doubts And why doe you trust to it more than unto the evidence of the Word and Iudgement of Gods faithful Ministers who by the Word give most satisfying resolutions to your doubts
he What is that all no but he proceedeth to this last act of meditation and saith I will have respect unto thy wayes Gods holy nature attributes Word workes also what is dutie what is a fault what you should be and doe what you are and what you have done what be the miseries of the wicked what is the happinesse and what are the privileges of the godly are fit matter of meditating by the direct act of the understanding That which must settle your judgement and be the rule to direct your judgement what to hold for true and good must be the Canon of Gods Word rightly understood and not your owne reason or opinion nor yet the opinions or conceits of men for these are false and crooked Rules In seeking to know the secrets and mysteries of God and godlinesse you must not pry into them farther than God hath revealed for if you wade therein farther than you have sure footing in the Word you will presently lose your selfe and be swallowed up in a maze and whirlepoole of errors heresies These deepe things of god must bee understood with sobrietie according to that measure of cleare light which God hath given you by his Word When Sinne happeneth to bee the matter of your meditation take heed lest while your thoughts dwell upon it though your intention be to bring your selfe out of love with it it steale into your affections and worke in you some tickling motions to it and so circumvent you For the cunning devices of sinne are undiscoverable and you know that your heart is deceitfull above all things Wherefore to prevent this mischiefe 1 As Sinne is not to bee named but when there is just cause so is it not to be thought upon but upon speciall cause namely when it sheweth it selfe in its motions and evill effects and when it concernes you to try and finde out the wickednes of your heart and life 2 When there is cause to thinke of sinne represent it to your mind as an evill the greatest evill most lothsome most abominable to GOD and as a thing most hatefull and hurtfull to you Whereupon you must worke your heart to a detestation of it and resolution against it 3 Never stand reasoning or disputing with it as Eve did with Satan but without any plodding thereupon you must doe present execution upon it by sheathing the Word the Sword of the Spirit into the heart of it and by the deeds of the Spirit kill it And if you would insist long in meditating upon any subject make choise of matter more pleasant and lesse infectious It is needfull that you be skilfull in this first part of meditation for hereby you finde out and lay downe propositions Whence you may conclude who is to be adored who not what is to be done what not what you should be what not But the life of meditation lyeth in the reflect acts of the soule whereby that knowledge which was gotten by the former act of meditation doth reflect returne upon the heart causing you to assume and apply to your selfe what was propounded whence also you are induced to endevour to worke your heart unto that which you have learned it ought to be This though it be most profitable yet because it is tedious to the flesh is most neglected Wherefore it concerneth you which are well instructed in the points of faith and holinesse to be most conversant in this when you are alone whether of set purpose or in your journyings or otherwise You should therefore be well read in the booke of your conscience as well as in the Bible Commune oft with it and it wil fully acquaint you with your selfe and with your estate It will tell you what you were and what you now are what you most delighted in in former times what now It will tell you what streights and feares you have beene in and how graciously God delivered you what temptations you have had and how it came to passe that sometimes you were overcome by them how and by what meanes sometimes you overcame them It will shew what conflicts you have had betwixt flesh spirit what side you tooke what was the issue of the conflict whether you were grieved and humbled when sinne got the better whether you rejoyced were thankfull in any sort when Gods grace in you held his owne or got the better Your conscience being set aworke will call to remembrance your over-sight and advantages which you gave to Satan and to the lusts of your flesh that you may not doe the like another time It will remember you by what helpes and meanes through Gods grace you prevailed got a good conquest over some sinne that you may flye to the like another time If you shal thus take observation of the passages and conflicts in this your Christian race and warfare your knowledge will be an experimentall knowledge which because it is a knowledge arising from the often proofe of that whereof you were taught in the Word it becommeth a more grounded a more perfect and a more fruitfull knowledge than that of meere contemplation It is onely this experimentall knowledge that will make you expert in the trade and warfare of Christianitie Take me a man that hath onely read much of Husbandry Physicke Merchandise Policie and martiall affaires who hath gotten into his head the notions of all these and maketh himselfe beleeve that he hath great skill in them yet one that hath not read halfe so much but hath beene of long practice and of great experience in these goeth as farre beyond him in Husbandry in giving Physick in Trading in Policie in true feats of Armes as he goeth beyond one that is a meere novice in them Such difference there is betweene one that hath onely notions brain-knowledge of Christianitie and in may be some practice withal but severed from experimentall observation and him that taketh notice of his owne experiences and is oft looking into the Records of his owne Conscience throughly to peruse them The experiments which by this meanes you shall take of Gods love truth and power of your enemies falshood wiles and methods of your owne weaknesse without God of your strength by God to withstand the greatest lusts and strongest Divell yea of an abilitie to doe all things through him that strengthneth you will beget in you faith and confidence in God and love to him watchfulnesse and circumspection lest you be overtaken with sinne yea such humilitie wisedome and Christian courage that no opposition shall daunt you neither shall any drive you from the hold you have in Christ Iesus Where reade you of two such Champions as David and Paul and where doe you reade of two that recorded and made use of their experiences like these Wherefore next to Gods booke which giveth light and rule to your Conscience reade oft the