and to mainetayne those which are good Therefore we are most earnestlye to praye for kinges and all that are in authoritie that we vnder them may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie Swine AS Swine will moozell vp and downe in the mier whatsoeuer precious thing shall be offered them so wicked contemners and despisers of the worde do as it were tread vnder their feet whatsoeuer promise is offred or iudgement threatned to them out of the Word The destruction of an heard of Swine was of more force to make the Gaderenes weary of Christe then the sauing of the man possessed with the Deuil was to cause him to be welcome and to be well accepted and receiued of them Such is alwaies the estate of Christ of his gospell amongst worldlinges whensoeuer it is ioyned with any losse or daunger of worldly benefites Wash swine neuer so clean yet so soon as they can find a miery plat they will wallow and tumble them selues in it againe so bestow neuer so much paines to reduce the wicked and vngodly from their impietie they wil shortly pollute and defile them selues againe Swoord SWordes that new come from the cutlers newly whet which cut whersoeuer they touch do liuely set foorth the qualities of wicked and vngodly tongues So also do they of the wrath and anger of God kindled as well to destroy and consume the hipocrite as him that is openly and notoriously wicked Further they do most plainely represent the nature of dissention and disagreement in religion For there is no band so strong of nature affinitie or friendship which it doth not cleane breake and cut a sunder The sharpenesse of a two edged swoord doth liuely expresse the liuely mighty operation of the word which cutteth a sunder the strongest things in man that oppose them selues against it and pearceth into the most secreat and hid corners of them which couer them selues with hipocrisie against it Sorrow SOrrow is encreased by encrease of knowledge Song THe sharpest rebuke of a Friende is better and more delectable to the eare of a wise man then the pleasauntest song of a foole It is a comely thing for the saintes of God to set foorthe the prayses of the Lorde with songs and Psalms and in singing of them to obserue that which maketh for their admonition and instruction They take therin a singuler pleasure they make it their myrth and recreation Tabernacle WHen we see in any fayres markettes or camps tents or booths set vp for mens present necessity to abide in a little while let vs remember that our bodies are but tents and tabernacles lent vnto vs to dwell in heere for a time and that therefore wee shoulde liue heere like straungers and pilgrimes looking and tarying for an eternall mansion or city in heauen the author and founder whereof is God Talent THe great and fearful punishment of him that receiued a talent of his master and went and digged it in the earth and hid it doe teach vs to feare the heauye and greeuous iudgementes of God against vs If we haue receiued any giftes of God and doe not employ them to the common vse benefite and profite of the Churche and people of God Teachers THose teachers dishonour God and slaunder his gospell greatly which openlye fall into those grosse vices and sinnes which they reproue in others As they are very welcome and receiued ioyfully of vs which bring vs tidings of that which we greatly desire so ought the feete of our preachers to be esteemed beautiful which bring to vs the glad tidinges of peace and reconcilement with God For the which cause they are reckoned amongest the most precious gifts and greatest treasures that Christe at his glorious and triumphant ascention enriched his Church withall The deuil enuying this felicity thrusteth out lying teachers which bring in damnable sectes and drawe vpon their own heads and the heades of their followers swift damnation Tempest WHen wee see any greate raging tempest which beareth downe a number of thinges afore it Then are we to consider how much more violent the wrath and anger of the Lorde is against wicked and vngodly men Teares WHiles the wicked prosper against the people of God and doe freely blaspheme God and make waste and hauocke of the Church of God the Teares of the godly powred out from greef are to them in steede of meate and drink but the time shall come when the Lorde shall wipe all Teares from their eyes and shal take away their rebuke from out of the earth for blessed are they that weepe now for they shall laugh Tiethes TO withdraw and witholde Tieths and offerings by y e law appointed to the liuing and sustenaunce of Gods minister is to rob God to steale from him They that Tieth truely and yet in the rest of their life are lose and dissolute doe rightlye expresse vnto vs them that make great conscience in outward things commaunded by men and yet make not so great a matter of leauing their calling and giuing ouer theire flocke to the which they were tied both by the laws of God and man In paiment of our Tieths we should consider what a great dignity what an honourable calling God hath aduaunced his ministers vnto and therefore yeelde them that honor and reuerence due vnto their calling Theefe AS a Theefe taken in stealing with the deed doing is brought to open shame so Kings princes and nations putting confidence in idols and yet deceiued in finding no helpe in them in time of their distresse are put to manifest shame and confusion A theefe as neere as he can commeth closely to robbe an howse then when men think least of him so vppon a like sodaine when men least think of it shall Christe come again to iudgement Wherefore we ought at al times to be ready for his comming When we see theeues such other malefactors executed for theire deseruings we are to take heede that we when we suffer suffer not as murtherers theeues euil doers or busy bodies but if we suffer as Christians then are we not to be ashamed Thirst. BLessed are they that hunger and thirste after righteousnesse for they shal be satisfied Thornes THornes cannot be touched nor handled except mens hands be fenced with hedging gloues so are wicked neighbors very cumbersom except a man be well defended take great heed vnto him selfe As a fire made of Thornes burneth fiercely for the time and keepeth a greate noyse and cracking but yet is speedilye burnt out and consumed so the attemptes of the wicked are for the time violent and daungerous but GOD in his good time doth with speede extinguish and quench them A hedge or good fence of thorne is harde to ve passed thorough so is euerye way of
to a wise consideration of duetye where otherwise if hee bee left at libertye hee oftentimes bringeth his Parentes to shame When straungers and Aliens preuaile against the people of God then are wee to comfort our selues that they are but God his roddes and that therefore God will not alwayes for that purpose vse them but that in short time they shall bee broken worne to the stumpes and throwne away When we see schollers very fearful of their schoole-master comming towards them with a rod in his hand then are wee to remember to take heed that we so behaue our selues towards them that are ouer vs in the Lorde that they rather vse vs to the sweete and spirituall comforts of Gods promises then the terrible seuerity of Dicsipline Rushes AS Rushes and other greene thinges that commonly grow in watery places If in whot weather they want moysture doe quickly consume wither come to naught so the waies of the wicked and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish Ritches AS the glutton that ouerchargeth his stomack with meat is compelled to spue and cast it vp againe so the greedy Cormorant that gathereth great riches and deuoureth and swalloweth vp great substaunce shall loose it againe for God shall euen draw it out of his belly so that the smallest blessing of worldlye wealth which God giueth to the iust man is much better to him then greate riches and wealth which the wicked and vngodly doe possesse For experience teacheth how vainly men disquiet themselues in heaping vp ritches which they knowe not who shall possesse wherefore hee which with ritches will haue the fauour and blessing of God must be liberall and franke to all such vses as tend to the seruice honour and glory of God For if we procure his anger indignation wrath against vs our riches and treasure shall nothing auail profite nor helpe vs. Therefore a good name is aboue riches and fauour aboue siluer and gold It is therefore a very vanity to trauaile too muche for riches when a man thinketh he hath them most sure then sodainlye they slippe and flye away Hee that looueth siluer shall not bee satisfied with siluer and he that loueth riches shal be with out the fruite thereof When wee see a rich man sodainly die and those to possesse his wealth whome hee neuer gathered it for Then are wee to remember what a vauitye it is for a man to disquiet him selfe in heaping vp of wealth and howe muche better it is for a man to bee rich in God or to make Christe his riches and wealth for whose sake euery Christian oughte with ioy to suffer the spoyle of his goods knowing that in heauen hee hath an enduring substance and that the worldly rich man together with his wealth shall vanish as the flower of the grasse Wherefore wee shoulde not followe the fashions of this world in accepting and regarding of men onely for their riches and wealth which commonly they heap together by tyrannous oppression and by persecuting the saintes of God ioyned together with the blasphemy of his most holy name They that desire to be rich fal into many temptations and snares and many foolish and noysom lusts And the desire of monye is the roote of all euil Wherfore rich men are to be warned that they be not prowd nor trust in vncertaine riches but in God who aboundantly giueth to euerye one Roller WHen wee see Husbandmen vse rollers to breake great and hard clodds and to make them fall to power then are we to call to minde the power of God and his Christe to breake down the might and force of his enimies though as high and mighty as the highest and greatest mountaines Rainbowe WHensoeuer we see the Rainbowe we are to call to minde Gods iudgementes against the worlde in the dayes of Noe for their wickednes and also y e kindenesse of God who in mercy hath promised vs that hee will neuer a-againe destroy the whole worlde with Water and hath giuen vs the Rainbowe in the clowdes as a pledge and seale thereof for our better assuraunce Shadow AS now the sunne is shadowed with clowds and by and by shineth foorth bright so subiect to chaunge is the life of man And as the seruaunt working abroade in the whot Sunne longeth for and is glad of the coole shade so men in affliction and misery are glad of a little ease Sacrifice THe persons of Infidelles and impenitent wicked men God abhorreth and therefore the Sacrifice of such is abhominable But God fauourably accepteth the Sacrifice of the faithfull And these are the Sacrifices left now vnto the Church of God 1. Contrite Spirites broken heartes such as tremble at his Worde 2 Our reasonable seruing of God that is our seruing him according to the prescription of his will 3 Martirdome for the testimony of his trueth 4 The fruite of our Lippes that is Praise and thankesgiuing vnto his moste holye and blessed name 5 Benefiting our brethren and distributing that which God hath blessed vs withall to the needy For with such sacrifices God is pleased and for that cause hee hath made vs priestes that wee shoulde offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Christ. Salte AS often as we see Salt stones wee are to remember the strange punishment wherewith God punished Lots wife for disobedience and to feare the like or greater Salt also aswell because it is sauour it selfe as because it seasoneth all other thinges expresseth vnto vs the duety of good ministers aswell in life as doctrine Sand. IF the sandes of the sea be innumerable so that it is impossible for man to take in hand to number them Then how great is the summe of Gods cogitations and how farre beyonde the reach of man And though the people of God be somtimes for their chastisement giuen ouer to the enemye who thinketh vtterly to extinguishe them and to root them out yet God will againe multiply and encrease the number of them that they shal be as innumerable as the sand of the sea Sauour THe sent and Sauour of the Minister of the Worde is very delectable and pleasaunt to those whom God hath appoynted to be saued but vnto the other who perishe he is an odious loathsome and deadly sauour Sea THe meruailous stormes that Marriners and passengers abyde oftentimes at Sea shewe foorth the mighty and wonderfull works of god The calme that often sodenly followeth and the bringing of men into their desired harborrow setteth out the loue and kindnesse of God to such as call vpon him For God for his people doth make awaye in the sea and a path in the mighty waters As the sea when it rageth the waters thereof cast vp durt and mier so the wicked in their outragiousnes shew
abroad their filth But God ruleth the raging of the sea and stilleth the waues thereof Whereby wee vnderstande his great power and might and that there is none in ability like him Sedition FEare the Lord and the king and meddle not with them that are seditious for theire destruction shall rise sodainly and who knoweth the ruine of them Sepulchres SEpulchres and Tombs which are costly builte and richly adorned and haue nothing within them but a stinking Carkas and rotten boanes doe aptly represent the notable goodly outward shewes which hipocrites make their hearts being full of all wickednesse and corruption Seedes AS the seed once sowed wheresoeuer it pleaseth God to grant his blessing vnto it whither the sower sleepe or wake or whatsoeuer hee doeth and howsoeuer hee is occupied groweth encreaseth till it come to maturity and ripenes so y e worde by the minister of God being scattered wher God worketh withal by his holy spirit there it bringeth a greate meruailous an vnlooked for encrease As a number of things shold yeerely decay come to naught except seedes of them were saued whereof they are by sowing renued so the people that beare Gods name vppon earth shoulde in the day of visitation of their sinnes be cleane and vtterly destroied as Sodom and Gomorah but that God spareth some remnant to be as it were a seed for the encreasing of his Church and people againe Seedes y t are sowed except they corrupt grow not again so our bodies except they cōsume rise not again And as the same seede in substance that is sown springeth again yet altered in forme and fashion euen so our bodies shall rise againe the same in substance but meruellously altered in qualities so our bodies except they consume rise not againe yet altered in form fashion euen so our bodies shall rise again the same in substance but meruellously altered in quality Such as the seede is such is the life of y e which proceedeth from it As therfore of mortall corrupt seed men are first borne to this mortall and corruptible life so must wee of the immortall incorruptible seede of the word be borne againe to a life immortall and incorruptible if we will liue euer Serpent THe sight of a serpent shoulde bring to minde the subtilty malice of the diuell whereby he deceiued and seduced oure first father Adam and induced him to transgression and disobedience and also it should make vs the more heedful and carefull to espy his crafts to withstand his malice seeing that we are eazlier nowe to bee ouerthrowne by reason of our corruption then Adam was afore his fall We also that are ministers shoulde also thereby learne to be wise considering the manifolde daungers which are incident to our calling Seruaunts THe diligence of our man-seruants and maide seruaunts in attending vppon vs and doing their duties vpon hope of finding help friendship at our handes is a good lesson as well to teach vs howe diligently we ought to be in pleasing God and also how well content we shoulde be to tarry his leasure for those graces mercies which we look for at his hand A wise seruant is a great pleasure to his Lord master but a lewd seruant always prouoketh him whome he serueth to anger A discreet seruant is better then a lewd sonne shal deuide the heritage amongst y e brethren As impossible as it is at one and the same time for one man to serue two diuers sundrye masters for y t he cannot be diligēt imploy him self about vpon the busines of the one but hee must needs neglect the others affairs so impossible is it for man to addict him self to God ritches When we see our seruants at our beck and commandement and diligent to do those things which we appoint them then we should remēber by how better right equity wee all creatures shoulde redilye obey the voice of God our creator and of Christ our redeemer If thy calling be to be a seruant care not but if thou maist bee free vse it rather For he that is called in the Lorde to bee a Seruant is the Lordes Free-man But learne that the propertye of a good Seruaunt is to giue all reuerence to his master obeying him in all thinges and that in singlenesse of heart and in the feare of the Lorde endeuouring alwayes to please him yea though he be froward executing the trust that is committed vnto him aswell in his masters absence as in his presence If a liberall good and bountifull master to his seruauntes can not but bee very angry and much offended if any of them deale cruelly with their fellows how much more iustly shall God withdrawe his mercy from them that deale vnmercifully with them that liue amongst them If men be bountifull vnto such seruants whose faithfulnesse diligence they haue good trial of as wel in their absence as presence on y e contrary side angry seuere sharp to them which deceiue their expectation do not answere the trust which is reposed in them how much more iustly shall God put the like difference in rewarding or punishing the good endeuours or negligence of them to whome he hath committed seruices of trust in his people and Churche As men haue iust cause with more sharpnesse and greater seuerity to punish those seruauntes to whome they haue shewed theire minde and will and yet their businesse is neglected then others who therefore doe it not because they knowe it not So GOD to whome soeuer hee hath reuealed moste and vppon whome he hath bestowed moste greatest giftes of knowledge them if notwithstanding they bee negligent in vsing their gifts to the profite of Gods Church will he most seuerely and sharply aboue all other punish Seruauntes be they neuer so diligent in executing that which is committed vnto them yet cannot iustly vaunt themselues that they haue done any more then bounden duety So we then when wee haue trauailed as much as for vs is possible yet are to confesse our selues vnprofitable seruauntes It is an olde saying Seruice is no heritage Therefore when we see seruaunts when they haue serued a time chaunge their masters and are eyther masterlesse or serue others then let vs remember that so vnstable and vncertaine is our condition in the Churche of GOD except wee haue the spirite of freedome namely the spirite of adoption of children and so by Christe and in Christe be truely made free Men are their seruauntes to whose commaundementes they yeelde all obedience Therefore if wee obey sinne wee are the seruauntes of sinne and our wages is death But if we obey God then are wee the seruauntes of obedience to righteousnesse and our ende is euerlasting life For the moste part some priuate respect of commodity and the seruice
if they be compared with Christe seeing as they are not worthy so much as to vnbuckle his shoes Sicknesse WHen we are grieuouslie sicke we are to call to minde the greatnesse of our sinnes For if there be nothing sound in our fleshe it is because of Gods anger And when there is no rest in our bones it is because of our sinnes Yet we are with this to comfort our selues that it is Gods louing chastisement to the ende that we should not be damned with the worlde Therefore though sinne be the cause of our affliction and sicknesse and though we be brought euen vnto deathes doore yet let vs with true and vnfained repentaunce crye vnto the Lorde he will heale vs and deliuer vs from our griefes And let vs looke about that our vnreuerent abusing of the holy misteries of Christes body and bloud be not a cause that many be sicke and many dye amongest vs. Siluer AS pure as Siluer is beeing seuen tymes tryed and fined so pure is the worde of GOD. With such labour and diligence as we would seeke for Siluer and search for treasure with the like we shoulde studye for the knowledge of God in his Worde For the wisedome therein learned is more worth then Siluer more gainefull then Gold more precious then pearles and without all comparison to be preferred before any thing which we can desire He that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer and he that loueth ritches shall be without the fruit thereof Though wicked couetous men do heape siluer togeather as dust and gold as the mier of the streats yet the Lord shall spoyle thē Further the sight of siluer and golde and such like as passing throgh the fier consume not shold admonish vs to endeuour that our workes maye be such as maye abyde the touch-stone of the Word and the fier of Gods examination Moreouer it was neither siluer nor golde neither anye other earthly thing how precious soeuer it was that could redeeme vs but onely the bloud of the immaculate and vnspotted lambe Iesus Christ. Schoole-maister AS a Schoolemaister serueth not for his scholler continuallye but till such time as the scholler may grow to some good abilitie to goe forward at his booke by his owne study So the Lorde feareth his people with his lawe not alwayes but till such time as they haue sufficiently learned to know them selues and therefore to flie from them selues to Christ Iesu who freeth them from the cursse and condemnation of the law Sleepe AS often as we rise from sleepe hauing our weary limmes refreshed and as it were reuiued so that we feele our selues in better case and abilitie to do anye maner thing then before so often we should remember that death vnto the godly is but a resting of their weary bodyes and bones till they rise againe exceedingly bettered by immortalitie and glory and therefore termed by the name of sleepe But loue not sleepe least thou come to pouerty Open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with bread Sleepe is sweete to him that trauayleth and taketh paines whether he eat little or much Silence SIlence in open places is to be obserued of women as a token of their dutifull subiection where vnder God hath put them Men also ought to be swift to heare and slow to speake for in much speaking sinne cannot be wanting Smoake AS Smoake vanisheth and commeth to nothing so the wicked and vngodly perish at the presence of God As smoake vanisheth and passeth away so heauen and earth and all that in them is shal vanish and passe away Sparrow IN time of persecution when we cannot be suffered to frequent the assemblies of those which truly serue the Lord. The state of the poore sparrow or swallow which are there suffered to build their nestes and haue their young seeme to vs more happy then our owne so great a desire haue we if we be godly to be with them among whō or at whose meeting Christ hath bound himselfe by his promise to be present The sale of sparrowes and such other small birdes in markets or other places shoulde bring to minde that seeing these fell not nor were caught without the prouidence of God it can not be but that he whose prouidence extendeth and stretcheth to such smal thinges should also haue a speciall care regarde and eye to those that are his Speaking AS it were a madnes or at the least a great folly for one man in communication with an other to speake in a tongue which the other vnderstandeth not so is it much more for a man to speake to a multitude or a whole congregation in that sort or order And where God graunteth not to people to haue his word so spoken and preached vnto them that they may vnderstand it is a manifest token of his anger and wrath against them for their vnbeliefe Spottes AS spottes deface the things they light on which ought to be cleane so false prophets and false brethren defile and staine the societye and felowship of Christians Snaile AS a Snaile melteth and consumeth to slime and earth so shal God consume the wicked and bring them to naught Snares WHen we see diuers and sundry snares and engines set for beastes vermine and foules and we see those that haue escaped diuers in the ende to be trapped in one or other then are we to remember that though some wicked doe at times seeme to escape the heauie iudgements of God yet in the end they shall be snarled Sodome WHen we here read or by any means remember the heauy fearefull and terrible iudgements of God vpon Sodome and Gomorrha and the places adioyning which God destroyed with fier and brimstone from heauen Then are we to looke about and to consider what and how much more intollerable estate and condition remayneth for vs if we continue contemptuous refusing and misusing the messengers of God now sent to vs. Sunne WHen we see the sunne shine in his full brightnesse and beauty then we are to remember that that light is but for a season But that God which is for euer and euer is the euerlasting light of his Church But in the meane season the constant course of the Sunne accordinge to the appointmente of God in the beginning teacheth vs our obedience to our creator That the Sunne staide his course in the dayes of Ioshua that it returned backwarde in the dayes of Ezechias and that it withdrewe his lighte at noone daies in the death and passion of our Lord and sauiour sheweth the glory and omnipotency of God who canne whensoeuer it pleaseth him chaunge the whole course of nature and make it serue whatsoeuer turn pleaseth him Souldier A Souldier taketh wages of them for whome he fighteth and goeth on warfare Therefore a minister of the gospell may lawfullye
fingers to battell VVater SO often as we see y e waters of y e sea we are to praise the goodnesse of the Lord who gathered them together on a heape and to maruell and wonder at his power who hath set them boundes which they may not passe and doores and barres whereby they are kept within theire appointed limits and can not returne to couer the face of the earth As the raised waters with great raines fall sodainly with greate rage and perill of drowning to many so are the persecutions of the Church if God do not miraculously rescue it from them But though his people passe through y e waters he wil be with them throgh the flouds yet they shall not ouerthrowe them For God maketh for them awaye in the sea and a path in the mighty Waters As water refresheth the thirstye and as flouds do moysten the dry land and make it fruitful so God by his spirit reioyceth the people of his Church and powreth out aboundance of his blessinges vpon them As water runneth and falleth awaye so shall all handes be weakned and knees shal shrinck when God shall punish impietie and wickednesse As cleane water washeth and maketh cleane our bodyes so the spirite of God maketh our harts and soules cleane in the eyes and sight of God As the water of mighty floudes doe with great violence and rage flowe and can not be stopped so the wrath of the Lorde commeth vppon the wicked who peruert al lawes and all religion A cup of water should bring to minde that the least liberalitie that can be giuen for Gods cause shall not scape vnrewarded at the handes of God If he that is a thirst doth greedely and ioyfully receiue a cup of water to quench his thirst and to ease him for a little time how much more greedely should we receiue the water of life whereby the thirst of our soule shall be quenched eternally As waues of water are tossed and carried away by force of wind so he that prayeth without faith must needes be carryed of euerye forcible affection and therefore can not looke to obtayne his peticions Waxe AS waxe melteth with the heat of the fier so the hart of man fainteth with the greatnesse of troubles and tribulations And as waxe melteth at the heat of the fier so the wicked perishe at the presence of God For how can they abyde his presence when the great huge and mighty mountaynes doe melt thereat as waxe Webbe AS the Spiders webbe is now whole and straight waies broken almost for the least thing that may happen vnto it so the expectation of the wicked faileth deceiueth them And as of those webbes no man can make cloath to cloath him so they who bend their wittes to conceiue mischiefe and whose whole labour is to bring foorth iniquity shall not reape profit by their deuises and paines Weapons ONe Nation stirred vp against an other to execute the vengeance of God are the weapons of Gods wrath Welles AS welles dry in the bottome deceiue them which seeke for water in them So they which looke to learne a truth at the handes of false Prophets are deceiued of their expectation VVeather MEn easely waxe cunning to fore-see what Weather will shortly happen by the standing of the wind by the gathering of the clowds and by other tokens which as it did condemne the slouth of them which liued in the time of Christe because they were not carefull not diligent to marke the tokens whereby they shoulde haue knowne the comming of Christ So also it will condemne vs if we marke not neither obserue the tokens of the Seconde comming of Christ. Wheat WHeat except it be sowed in the grounde and there dye and not spring againe and so multiply so the knowledge of those benefits which we haue by Christe after his death encreased grewe and multiplied throughout the whole world Wicked WHen we see wicked men whose whole delight is in wickednesse and all whose studyes are vanitie and abhomination then we may well conclude that these men haue sayde in their hartes that there is no God Widow WHen we see a Widow in extreame griefe for the losse of her husband and of her children because she is now destitute of all helpe comfort then let vs remember that such griefe and affliction God will bring vpon all those which when they flourishe and are in prosperitie are proud and vnmercifull The continuall weeping of a Widow forsaken of all her friendes representeth to vs the wofull estate of a Citie destroyed and desolate VVife HE that findeth a good Wife findeth a good thinge and receiueth fauour of the Lorde Houses and ritches descende from parentes to their children by inheritance but a wise and prudent Wife is the gratious gift of the Lord. VVildernesse WHen men are driuen to hide them selues in wild desart places where all things are wanting y t should serue for y e necessary sustenance of man Then are they to comfort them selues with the power and goodnesse of God who hath taught vs by good experience that he can and will extraordinarilye prouide for his by giuing foode from heauen water out of the hard rockes by making their apparrell neither to weare nor teare by making rauens to feed them by giuing extraordinary strength to endure with out meat a great time Winde AS wind sodenly passeth away with a blast so also sodenly passeth the life of man As they which haue nothing to feed on but the wind do famishe and pine away and so perishe so they which are fed with fayre promises and set their hope and confidence in the defence of men are deceiued and left destitute in their most need The winde bloweth in what quarter of Heauen it listeth and where it beginneth blowing where it endeth no man can tell neither can any man deuise meanes to stop the course of it euen with the like libertye and with the like open apparaunce worketh the spirit of God where and in whom he will and no power nor abilitie of man is able to resist and withstand it Wine AS new Wine will burst the vesselles which it is put in except they haue a vent So a man desirous to heare him self can by no means hold his tongue Wine is a mocker and stronge drincke is raging and whosoeuer is deceiued therewith is not wise Looke not vppon Wine when it is red and when it sheweth his colour in the cup and goeth downe pleasantlie in the ende thereof it will bite like a Serpent and hurt like a Cocatrice When we see men make no conscience how they get but think al wel inough so they bestow some part vpon God and good vses we are to remember the threatning of the Prophet against them that drincke the wine of