as much as may be and though all griefe is lessened in being communicated seldome or never to reveale any particular passages of injurie before private men especially such as can neither advise nor compose the difference but rather to referre them to some publike and judiciall examination for thus no question the Truth it selfe will be freest from suffering prejudice the Tale bearer loose his profession and pine away the Defendant furthest from taking advantage from preventing the punishment of his offence and the Plaintife least of all suspected for any uncharitablenesse or partialitie in his owne cause 7 But I hasten and because a good matter may be spoiled in the carriage let the Petition be denied if the successe in any could be more probable than this in respect of the time wherein it was delivered for it was made to the chiefe Butler in the time of his sad imprisonment nay in the Winter of his feares in the Spring of his hopes a time wherein men are apt to promise most and most easie to be entreated 8 Nor is it lesse remarkable that this Petition was made to him alone Ioseph addrest himselfe wholly to the chiefe Butler without imploring the assistance of other friends as being confident in his power and goodnesse a passage if I mistake not answerable in some sort to the pride and expectation of many great ones in these dayes who in the promotion of Suites and preferment of others will be all or nothing like Lovers like Kings they admit no partners no fellow-labourers nay like God himselfe who surely never commanded any such resemblance they would be thought to make other men their creatures and are highly pleased to have them called so such ambition and vaine-glory such private ends such hopes of entire respect and blinde observance the designes of worldly wisedome lye hidden and as it were enterlined betwixt the protestation and the performance of reall favours so that hee who for the dispatch of his businesse imployes more friends than one unlesse they be subordinate takes the onely way to lose them all and his Cause to boot 9 Besides the Petition is made but once as though hee had beene taught that in Ovid Et pudet metuo semperque eademque precari to feare and be ashamed to entreat the same things oft and this must be held a point of discretion too for though in respect of God whose infinite wisedome is alwayes at leisure Saint Augustine commands us pete quaere insta to be instant in season and out of season 2 Tim. 4.2 to pray continually yet in respect of men whose understandings are bounded and limited especially such whose high places are attended with varietie of great imployments Petitions may be unseasonable frequent solicitations very unwelcome many times beget neglect nay a cause of denyall and that deservedly too unlesse it be in cases of extreme miserie or where the Iudge proves unjust for then necessitie hath no law Luk. 18.10 and importunitie which was the poore Widowes friend may well be excused if it speake the Poets language Da veniam vitio mitis amice meo confesse the fault and entreat a pardon 10 But here though Josephs affliction was very much yet he might thinke that since Aegyptians were the first as Herodotus reports who brought Altars and Images and Temples into the World they will not be so unnaturall so contrarie to themselves and their owne invention as to forget the Priest especially such a Priest as brings downe from Heaven the image of the most High and is himselfe an Angell of Light the light of this truth Verse 8. Doe not interpretations belong to God 11 Againe he might hope that since Aegyptians hold themselves to be all Gentlemen as Stories record they will accordingly shew themselves gentle and easie to be entreated Iam. 3.17 full of mercie and good workes the foundation of true Gentilitie much more being thereunto invited by the wants deserts and powerfull words of a divine Apostle a rare Interpreter 12 Besides this was an opinion generally received throughout all Aegypt and afterwards of all others became most remarkable to posteritie That the next way to root out wickednesse was to punish the wicked to support the innocent and to helpe all those who were reduced to any great extremitie And therefore since Aegyptians were observed to carry about them the figures and representations of brute Beasts Dogs Crocodiles and the like shewing them a farre off as their preserving gods Ioseph might well thinke the chiefe Butler would carry about him a lesser burthen a Iewell the remembrance of a friend a distressed friend and make mention of him to Pharaoh as a Messenger from Heaven a restorer of his life and fortunes a helper in the time of need 13 Howsoever if these opinions were not begot or ripe enough in that Age yet it might well be thought the noblenesse of a great man need not be urged where the Petition is not for preferment but maintenance maintenance in a good cause and that so miserable so plaine a case And yet how plaine a case soever it be me thinkes the chiefe Butler heares and sees and sayes nothing nothing for the present nothing for the future I am sure nothing to the purpose small comfort for a miserable man of speciall worth making such a modest and reasonable and seasonable Petition whose deserts were the more and more to be regarded by how much his affliction was so great and his request so small Surely I should have taken silence for a part of his condition but that at first it cannot be discerned whether it was the statelinesse of his carriage or that wise kind of denyall by delayes or discretion which made him rather imbosome the Petition than answere it And yet statelinesse was not sutable to that place the place of a Dungeon and I am sure a denyall were of it selfe unjust but by delayes a torture onely discretion may be pretended and that onely for a while till Iosephs Interpretation succeed and a faire opportunitie serve to move the King whereof the chiefe Butler had many very many by reason of his condition as will now appeare Yet did not the chiefe Butler c. 14 I Am at last come to the condition of the chiefe Butler which if I could demonstrate I should be very briefe but being onely to guesse at it as short as may be such as we have heard and seene and such as our fathers have told us and therefore his condition shall be wrapt up onely in this one particular he was a great Officer in Pharaohs house restored to his Office and therefore unlikely to remember Ioseph a Prisoner an Interpreter a Petitioner The probabilitie of this consequence for it is no more will a little resemble naturall wisedome whereby as hee who stands will take heed lest he fall so hee who was fallen and stands againe must needes more sensibly apprehend a possibilitie of change and thereby
speciall appointment of Potiphar but timeo Danaos dona ferentes this might be not so much in approbation of his fidelitie as to make him depend upon his further kindnesse the kindnesse of an adversarie which wee know no sooner turnes grievances into hopes than hopes into folly a Master-piece of close oppression and the readie way to Iosephs ne ultra his continuall bondage And thus likewise to the same purpose his particular imployment might be not so much an Office to keepe others as a snare to catch himselfe For so by taking opportunitie to escape without any tryall at all which perhaps was chiefely desired as being most for their credit who first imprisoned him or by running into errors as no man is sufficient to prevent all his adversaries might finde holes in that Coat which had none before and have something whereof to accuse him at least by shewing him a little kindnesse the libertie of a Prison and a command within it the better discover who were most likely to be his friends their enemies and durst any way comply with Ioseph without Potiphars consent 23 And surely if that be true which * In vit Agric. Tacitus observes proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris That we are prone by the jealousie of a corrupt nature to hate that man alwayes whom once we purposely hurt then no question if it were publikely knowne that Potiphar were so * Coniugis amori plus aequo tribuens Ioseph l. 1. Antiq. unjust as to imprison Joseph * Inaudita causa inexplorata fide veri tanquam reus criminis in carcerem Ioseph mittitur Ambr. without hearing him speake in his owne defence at first and without calling him to account afterwards as here 's no examination upon divine record it cannot be imagined but that Potiphar will be still unjust and in this respect the chiefe Butler his servant also nay forsooth his servants servant to second his desires to keepe Ioseph still in darkenesse for feare his innocence should breake forth as the Noone-day and like that fire from Heaven for which Elias prayed consume the Captaine and his men 2 King 1. 24 Or if the truth were manifest to Potiphar and he really inclin'd to release this prisoner yet the chiefe Butler measuring others by himselfe thinkes that Potiphar so great a man would at least seeme wise and just in the eyes of his Prince and not have others meddle with his faults or so much as seeme to know any passages of that nature that being Captaine of the Guard a man most likely to be powerfull in the State or of a proud spirit he will take his owne private courses to enlarge Ioseph by little and little and not returne the same publike way by which he proceeded against him never recant never confesse his errors before men and set the saddle upon the right horse but either bridle the tongue and stop the mouth of truth or breake the necke of him that speakes it And that for this purpose As the chiefe Priests in the 28. of Matthew gave large money to souldiers to belye the Resurrection and withall promised if this came to the Governours eares they would perswade him and secure them a hellish policie not onely reward but secure and protect the lyars So hee Captaine of the Guard so neere the person of Pharaoh wants no opportunitie to open and close up the Princes eares for his owne advantage he wants no money to bribe whose estate was lately so prosperous for Iosephs sake and by the qualitie of his Office he wants no souldiers or warlike men under his owne command to out-brave the truth to spit in the face of innocence and upon the least occasion to fight especially in a Womans quarrell and that when there is so little feare of being called in question and above all so much hope to cast lots for Iosephs garment and weare their Mistresse favour such and such like vanities being too often greater motives of courage than Religion and a good cause 25 Howsoever since the maintaining of correspondencie amongst great persons lookes many wayes and that upon trifles too studying and observing them more than better things we may well conjecture that as Herod and Pilate were mâ—de friends Luk. 23.12 by agreeing together against that innocent Lambe Christ Iesus so these two Officers will continue friends brethren in evill rather than Authoritie shall be truly informed and Ioseph remembred And thus it may be this Aegyptian Courtier degenerating from the Religion of his Countrey and reflecting wholly upon himselfe having as he thinkes made all the use he can of such a friend but an Interpreter whose worth is seldome esteemed or thought on unlesse it be for discourse or in cases of extremitie besides finding at first no faire way open competible with his owne private ends to speake in a poore prisoners behalfe might afterwards soone forget Ioseph and lay aside the memorie of his Petition to verifie the Proverbe Out of sight out of minde 26 But let this cautelous Aegyptian pretend what wisedome he can to excuse himselfe all is not sufficient to free him though but a Heathen from this heavie censure much lesse can it free a Christian upon like occasion for surely in private affaires the onely scope of this Text no policie can be good against that charitie o justice whereunto wee are entreated by Petition perswaded â—y â—nnocence bound by thankefulnesse and invited by many faâ—re opportunities in regard there seemes no reason uâ—dâ—r favoâ— why the same spirit which applyed the rending of Samuels garment to the fatall prejudice and destruction of Saul in his owne audience 1 Sam. 15. and yet found no discouragement should not with like successe tell Pharaoh or Potiphar at least the truth of keeping Iosephs garment and the danger of not restoring it without blemish to the owner 27 And yet amongst men-pleasers there is a worldly policie which thinkes it better to bow and reverence to Haman better to consent with the Thiefe and to have fellowship with the deceitfull Psal 50.18 Esa 28.25 even such as have made lyes their refuge and under falsehood have hid themselves better to comply and hold correspondencie with the wicked practises of many great men who in the words of the Psalmist cruelly Psal 81.20 disdainefully despightfully speake against the righteous rather than call for justice or plead for truth Esa 1.17 Esay 59. v. 4. rather than judge the fatherlesse speake for the Widow or relieve the oppressed and advance his worth though his cause be innocent and his deserts beyond compare Hoc aulicorum solenne est perfidè insontes prodere potius tradere jugulandos quà m ut offendant cos à quibus metuunt saith learned Calvin This is the propertie of time-serving Courtiers perfidiously to betray the innocent nay to expose them to a finall destruction rather than offend those whom they thinke may crosse their
Regis patrocinari Pare wisedome to give him freedome encouragement or any opportunity to shew himselfe much lesse to make mention of him to Pharaoh whose worth casting a light upon future events by a rare kinde of divination from Heaven is most likely like Aarons Rod to over-top the Magicians of Aegypt to over-looke and disparage their practises most likely to discover present offences at least offences like those in his owne case Lying Slandering Collusion Partialitie Oppression the leane ill-favoured Kine of Aegypt which Pharaoh sees not but in a Dreame and by innocence turne Informer and the rather because this innocence is so much protested in his other reason And here also have I done nothing why they should put me into the Dungeon 19 And will Ioseph still protest his innocence Then it seemes he will not take the blame upon himselfe and confesse that fault whereof he was never guiltie to preserve Potiphars reputation and his Wives Like those servants who wittingly and willingly marry themselves to their Masters Adulterie to prevent his publike and approaching shame betray their owne honestie to patronize his errors Whoredome Injustice Oppression Briberie and the like It seemes he will not cry Jer. 6.14 peace peace where there is no peace And this may be something which makes him lesse regarded as one unlikely to be of those thriving professions either a Pandar for another mans lust who disclaimes his owne or a Broker for anothers griping covetousnesse who will not purchase his owne libertie to be accounted dishonest altogether unlikely to winke at offences and flatter the perverse counsels of others who will not for his owne sake Esa 5.20 in a case of so great importance speake evill of good or good of evill And therefore if he were sent for out of the Dungeon more likely with the Prophet Michaiah 2 Chron. 18. to be sent thither againe much more to be kept there even there to be fed with bread and water of affliction 20 But this something is not all the consequence is greater for though here 's no formall complaint yet here 's one included the more innocent Ioseph makes himselfe the more unjust hee makes Potiphar the more unchaste his Wife and then to helpe him to shew him any kindnesse upon tearmes of innocence and favour a good cause much more to make mention of him to the King either for favour in respect of his worth or justice in respect of his cause is the next way to bring the whole businesse upon the Stage the next way to shew Pharaoh how much his power hath beene used thereby abused without a course of justice severe punishment inflicted without a triall the next way to offend those friends who procured his libertie the next way to recall his owne former faults to a second examination who is so active in other mens at least the next way to incense and breake all correspondencie with Potiphar a man greater than himselfe Gen. 39.1 Captaine of the Guard in Pharaohs house who as formerly by vertue of his place hee had committed the chiefe Butler to prison so now by displeasure hee might returne him thither againe if either he should doe any thing in that businesse without his notice or not fawne and applaud and maintaine the partialitie of his proceedings against Ioseph For some there are that make a man an offender for a word that lay a snare for him that reproveth in the Gate and turne aside the just for a thing of naught Esay 29. v. 21. Much more might Potiphar be displeased if such a businesse should be mentioned to the King which so neerely reflects upon his Wives incontinence and his owne injustice 21 But admit Potiphar were of himselfe as easie to be entreated for Iosephs libertie as he was formerly perswaded to imprison him yet the frequent and private solicitations of a Wife being so often the impediments of justice in the distribution both of favours and punishments but especially the malice of an imperious whorish woman so farre beyond expression and her condition so apt to be a busie-body in the affaires of others much more to be active about her owne more especially when those affaires behold the presentment of her inordinate desires spretaeque injuriam formae and which most of all stirres up to revenge the former contempt and rejection of her lust these particulars all of them drawne from a lying tongue which I am sure hateth those who are afflicted by it Prov. 26. I say these are weapons which perhaps the chiefe Butler had rather sharpen than oppose as knowing that a woman aut vehementer amat aut capitaliter odit is either the best friend or the greatest enemie and so in this case having once before deluded her Husband most likely to urge his displeasure to the utmost and that more against him the chiefe Butler than Joseph as having lesse oportunitie fewer wayes to encrease the punishment of a poore prisoner than to be revenged of his friend a great Officer in Pharaohs house and that restored to his Office And surely it is likely that shee whose craftie wilinesse so well succeeded to make advantage of Iosephs Garment which indeed was her shame would afterwards take upon her both to know her friends and oppresse her enemies 22 Nay further to search the depth of this Aegyptians wisedome before we turne it into foolishnesse and as it were to plead for him freely who would not so much as remember another no not by the strongest obligations of life libertie and honour 'T is true the story tells us that Ioseph had the managing of all things in the Prison and was in particular charged by Potiphar with the keeping of Pharaohs servants two great offenders whereby it might be presumed he had at that time unmasked the shamelesse countenance of his Wife which made him so confident in the care of an old servant a strong motive no doubt to encourage others to mediate his further enlargement yet the chiefe Butler a restored Officer knowes perhaps by experience or feares that Potiphar may be like Entrapelus Ep. l. 1. ep 18. of whom Horace speakes Cuicunque nocere volebat Vestimenta dabat pretiosa One whose favours were like the faire words of Iael to Sisera Iudg. 4.18 19. Come in my Lord feare not come in like her Bottle of Milke and her Covering which lull'd the Captaine asleepe and made him secure of her protection who thereby contrived and effected the glory of his finall overthrow And so indeed Ioseph might be put into Office as Haman was invited by Queene Hester to the Banquet not so much for favour as hatred Imployed hee was but this might be of purpose to divert him from contriving other matters of greater consequence answerable to his worth at least from studying the meanes of libertie and the remedie of his false imprisonment Nay imployed hee was as formerly in all likelyhood by the connivencie so now by * Vers 4.
designes or prevent their ambition Davids experience found out not onely the truth but the slynesse also of these proceedings Psal 31.11 I became saith he a reproach to mine enemies but especially to my neighbours and they of my acquaintance were afraid of me and conueyed themselves from me This experience of David was a prediction of Christ and verified at his Passion for when hee was apprehended behold his Disciples forsooke him and fled Mar. 14 50. Nay Peter that great professor of fidelitie Mark 14.54 followed him a farre off as though it were a shame a disadvantage to be a follower of Christ who spent not onely his breath but his most precious bloud to redeeme him and all mankinde from an everlasting bondage as though it were no religious courage but a desperate resolution which made Queene Hester petition King Ahashuerosh for the lives of her people when the successe both for them and her selfe was so doubtfull Hest 4. 16. so full of distraction If I perish I perish as though exeat aula qui volet esse pius it were a like Orthodox to flye from the love and protection as to have fallen from the state of innocence as though there were no Wine-presse of wrath to be trodden by feet which never swell no divine justice Esa 30.33 no breath of the Lord like a streame of Brimstone to kindle the fire of eternall perdition for those fawning flattering Parasites who obscure and hide the Lampe of innocence under a Bushell and will not set it upon the Table to enlighten both themselves and others but rather like prophane Churles devise wicked devices to destroy the poore with lying words even when the needie speaketh right Esay 32. v. 7. 28 Thus it may be the reasons of Iosephs Petition were by this great Aegyptian one of Pharaohs wise counsellers or rather those Senatours to whom Ioseph afterwards taught better wisedome turn'd into arguments of denyall and forgetfulnesse 29 But had Josephs complaint such as it is beene a welcome message to Potiphar or Potiphar and Ioseph men of equall condition the businesse in all likelyhood had not ended in generall tearmes nor after such a manner and beene smothered in a Dungeon No if with * Ad primum ingratitudinis gradum pertinet quòd aliquis retribuat mala pro bonis Aqu. 22.107.2 c. Aquinas there be a kinde of unthankfulnesse as I am sure there is a common practice which returnes evill for good even hatred for good will then it stands not with the policie of an Aegyptian to forget any passages of strife and contention but rather to urge a more particular discoverie and to make advantage of a difference as here by remembring Joseph and the reasons of his petition for so by giving private intelligence or by declaring himselfe in publike not so much for the truth as the possibilitie of his owne private ends he might as it were begge more familiar acquaintance and skrue himselfe into the favour of the one by the destruction of the other like those deceitfull workers amongst us those slye companions who under the colour of friendship goe up and downe insinuating themselves into the counsels and resolutions of different judgements to betray one and flatter another the very off-spring of Dalilah the seed of the Whore whose faire words made Samson discover where his stâ—engâ—h lay Judg. 16. to his owne destruction But great men being â—oâ—h to heare of their faults and seldome or never admitting poore men to an open contestation but where the case is very plaine or made so on their owne sides Iosephs Petition wanting opportunitie to be seconded at least to be importuned the hopes many times and endeavours too of an uâ—jâ—st Iudge is here thought best answered by silence his condition slighted himselfe forgot 30 Had Ioseph neither worth nor innocence to plead his cause Then me thinkes the ordinarie course of justice might have thought him more fit for the place of execution than to continue in a Dungeon Had Ioseph corpus sine pectore a grosse body without any active worth or abilities of minde but onely this innocence of life a bare simplicitie of conversation Then likewise hee might have beene released too without much prejudice to the cause of his imprisonment as wanting judgement to understand and maintaine the reason of his libertie in which case it must needes be more trouble than advantage to keepe so poore a prisoner much better to have his roome than his companie Had Ioseph abundance of worth enterlined with some malevolent qualitie 2 Tim. 3.5 a forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof Had hee beene a malefactor upon record or committed some hainous offence not yet answered before authoritie Had hee beene possessed with any raging spirit of ambition or revenge but otherwise a man of great sufficiencie enriched with many parts and perfections both of Nature and Art no lesse able than willing to satisfie their expectation who said unto the Seers see not and unto the Prophets prophecie not unto us right things speake smooth things prophecie deceits Esay 30. v. 10. Oh then the policie of an Aegyptian would have studied to shew this man kindnesse earnestly entreated his release as the Iewes did for Barabbas nay Ioh. 18.40 preferred him too perhaps were the times as afterwards to be some severe oppressing Task-master over the people as being the fâ—ttest instrument for unworthy designes who is himselfe lyable to exception most likely to make a time-server who every morning feares a day of tryall in his owne case most likely in a womans judgement to accuse innocent Naboth who is himselfe a sonne of Belial 1 King 21.10 most likely to out-face the proceedings of Law and equitie who knowes his owne free-hold may be justly called in question most likely to blow the coales of sedition to kindle and encrease the fire of a divellish doctrine whose conscience is alreadie seared with a hot iron branded with impietie made famous by impenitencie But here innocence of life and those rare abilities of minde wisedome and discretion confessed afterwards by Pharaoh kisse each other Gen. 41.39 and are met together in one and the same person Ioseph and therefore no mervaile if he be not remembred in a strange and Heathenish countrey For Esa 59.14 where Iudgement is turned away backward and Iustice stands afarre off when Truth is fallen in the streetes and Equitie cannot enter there I am sure hee that protesteth innocence even hee that departeth from evill maketh himselfe a prey Esay 59. v. 15. 31 But admit the reasons free from all exception as well for the safetie of the one as the innocence of the other and that being in prison there was no offence taken at the want of flattering Titles which like a Preface indeed some men observe and weigh more than the whole matter besides yet the kindnesse here requested especially to move the King is a favour too high to
so by inuring and acquainting himselfe with these speechlesse denyals hee might the better teach others not to hope for much to promise themselves little to build upon nothing to beare all crosses with a quiet minde and in particular to deride and scoffe at the language of the Beast which in these extremities heares and sees and sayes nothing Yet if wee patiently abide Gods leysure if wee commit our wayes to him and wait upon the wisedome of his appointed times Psal 132.1 Psal 142.7 he will remember David and all his troubles bring his soule out of prison and helpe them to right who suffer wrong Nay though the Dungeon be like the Sepulchre wherein never man lay before for such offences offences indeed of others his accusers not of his owne though Oppression set a watch upon the doores and be it selfe a Rock of Stone to keepe both them from being opened and the prisoner from rising againe yet as one day an Angell of God a ministring Spirit shall descend from Heaven to visit this Dungeon to open these doores to justifie a good cause and to make it shine as bright as himselfe and that for feare of him Matth. 28.4 the Keepers the wretched Keepers will shake and become as dead men so in this life Psal 119. the same God hath ordained a Lanthorne for his annointed and a Light for his steps powerfull meanes to discover the wayes of darkenesse and to still the voice of the oppressor Iob 3.18 whereby no doubt according to his promise and the case of temporall happinesse he will raise the poore out of the dust Psal 113.6 7. that he may set him with Princes Psal 132.17 even the Princes of his people he will decke his Priests with health and his Saints shall rejoice and sing and all this now as heretofore by great Courtiers instruments of blessed memorie amongst whom though the chiefe Butler being entreated and engaged too would not speake for Ioseph a poore man a Priest a Saint yet one Neh. 2. partly of his profession good Nehemiah Cup-bearer to Artaxerxes notwithstanding the fruition and honour of his place will looke sadly and of himselfe make request to the King that he may goe build up the walls of Jerusalem and comfort his afflicted brethren More particularly God will as hee did give Ioseph wisedome and favour in the sight of Pharaoh Act. 7.10 a most just provident gratefull bountifull Prince nay he can draw water out of a stonie Rocke and that by the hand of this chiefe Butler causing him though a most unthankefull wretch to make mention of Ioseph to Pharaoh even then when like a weake Politician befooled with covetousnesse or selfe-conceit intending altogether his owne he shall effect onely Iosephs promotion and himselfe never after so much as named againe when Ioseph came in place but requited in his owne kinde not remembred cleane forgot and no mervaile for hee who makes another man eate the Bread of carefulnesse doth well deserve himselfe to drinke a draught of deadly Wine a Cup of finall indignation Iohn 2.9 46 In a word to conclude all he can turne this Water into Wine as hee did at a Marriage making all things worke together for the best Rom. 8.28 to those who love him But wee know hee hath reserved the best Wine till the last that then whosoever drinketh may never thirst againe and stand in need of any Courtiers kindnesse that time being the Feast of a great King greater than Pharaoh the King of Kings and that no birth-day but the Marriage Supper of his onely begotten onely beloved Sonne At which most glorious solemnitie Ioseph no question amongst others will be cloathed with a Wedding Garment even that Robe of Innocence Matth. 22.12 which hee left behinde him and being found a wise Virgin Matth. 25. having Oyle in his Lampe burning and shining in the midst of a darke Dungeon shall from thence enter with the Bridegroome into his Chamber of Presence that Imperiall Seat of incomprehensible Majestie there to reigne with him for evermore Vnto which Kingdome the Lord of his infinite mercie bring us all for his Sonne Christ Iesus sake To whom with the Father and the Holy-Ghost be ascribed all honour prayse power and Dominion now and evermore Amen FINIS Novemb. 22. 1634. PErlegi has duas conciones Magistri Thornton quae continent folia manuscripta 35. aut circiter in quibus nihil reperio sanae Doctrinae aut bonis moribus contrarium quo minus cum utilitate publica imprimi possint sub ea tamen conditione ut si non intra sex menses typis mandentur haec licentia sit omnino irrita GVILIELMVS HAYWOOD Capell Dom. Archiep. Cant.