he shall get nothing by the Cause he will be studious for his owne ease to doe speedy Justice for why then should it cumber the Court longer then needs must and that is the reason that many States maintaine Lawyers at the publick Charge that so expecting nothing from the Clyent they may steere their advise the speediest way to the haven of Iustice But whatever complaint may be made of us truely for the generality we doe but taste of the broth of commodity the Clerkes and great Officers of Courts put their ladles to the bottome of the Pot and are even drowned in the sweet liquor of potable gold 2 This honourable Calling and maintenance is in the nature of baile Acutos honoris stimulos Ingenius malvezzi as a cautionary assurance to the Kingdome to answer for their judiciall administrations and I conceive Honour obliges and engages more then profit yet not so as to superabound in wealth and power least they should command as Lords and not as fathers 3 Judges should therefore be great that they may dare to doe Justice as Gascoigne committed Hen. the 5. Hollinshed upon a Bishops complaint Hen. 4. rejoyced that he had a Iudge durst doe Iustice upon the Prince and a Son that would be so obedient I shall tell you of a gallant peece of Iustice to recompence that of Piso In the great Warres betweene Charles the fifth and Francis the first one Raynucio was imprisoned at Millan for betraying a Fort to the French his wife who for beauty was called the Nose-gay of the Parish petitioned the Governour for her Husbands inlargement the Governour our being so enamoured that there was little hopes of liberty had there been no more in it but that he might behold the Lady who daily attended with Petitions being able to conceale the fire no longer told her that his life was in her hands and he was as much her Prisoner as her Husband was his and that she must yeeld to his desire or be an undone widow the vertuous soule covered her cheekes with the colour of Roses and desired to speake with her Husband whom she made acquainted with it telling him that if her life would save his she would gladly lose it but my honour being required you must prepare for death he commended her magnanimity and how sad their parting was you may easier conceive then I can expresse the houre being appointed for his execution he considered that life was sweet and skin aâ—ter skin one thing after another what would not he doe to preserve a little momentary breath sends for his deare Consort Communis error non facit jus True honour consists in a Christian sufferance of the greatest misery rather then to commit the least sinne and cries to her as if he had beene her childe to yeeld to the Governour and to win her consent saies First that honour consists but in the opinion of the world and that a sinne wholly concealed is halfe pardoned as the Priests use to say Secondly That Spaniards are most faithfull in keeping promise and no doubt he would sweare never to reveale it Thirdly That he would be the death of him as by the Law of Spaine he might for any man may kill him that lyes with his wife the provocation being so great In Italy he must kill his wife as well as the Adulterer or else he dyes for it as being presumed that he did it not in the way of Iustice but revenge the poore soule yeelds for as Job saies if this be the condition of our temporall being The least fall from grace is a fall from Pauls that we never continue in the same condition much more are our spirits mutable as they are more subtill not that I speake this in the least title to justifie her for should I goe about to excuse it it might be a greater sinne in me then the offence was in her as for a Lawyer wittingly to Patronize an unjust Cause is worse in him then in the Clyent Garcias had her in his power as a bird insnared and being weary dismisses her with a promise to set her Husband at liberty but the Spaniard considering that a man or womans honour is like a great Fort take that and you command all the rest tells the Prisoner that he must pay ten thousand Crownes redemption she with much difficulty satisfies that demand likewise and was promised that her Husband should be sent home to her house the next day but the persidious Governour bethinking himselfe what danger he might incur from the Emperour and fearing that the man might be revenged on him for dead men doe not bite therefore in some places of Italy you may have a man killed for five shillings but not cudgelled under twenty sent a Priest to him to prepare himselfe for death and caused his body divided from his head to be sent home the next day in performance of his promise now for the poore soule to see her selfe deprived of Husband Honour and goods altogether her griefe was above expression and the torment the greater that if it were discovered she would be abhorred and if concealed it could not be cured at last with extreame shame she made it knowne to a friend both able and faithfull Hercules Estius Now the Duke of Ferrara being Generall for the Emperour Aemelia presents her requests for Iustice against Garcias who was convented at Ferrara and thinking that as the Adultery of Mars and Venus served onely for sport in the Court of the Heathen Gods thought that the Generall would but laugh at the conceit or at the worst would remand him to his Command at Milan perswading himselfe that in such a case his Souldiers would not let him suffer he confessed the fact said it was so pleasing a sinne that it was impossible he should ever repent of it and upon the matter told the Generall that the Traitor was deservedly executed and therefore he was not troubled at what might be the event of it Saies the Duke Why am I made great but that I should doe Justice upon the greatest offender Garcias said the Duke you must restore to this Lady her ravisht honour Sir saies he That is impossible and what 's past helpe shall be past greife But you may Marry her saies the Duke for you loved her once and you must love her for ever or lose your life and that you shall doe this day I loved her indeed saies Garcias as Herod loved Mariamma or as the Hunter loves the Venison to make sport or to feed upon it but I am not prepared for death therefore I chuse rather to Marry her Aemilia upon her knees intreates that she may rather dye then Marry him whom she so much abhorred but the Duke having whispered with her she submitted to his good pleasure The same Priest joyned them together by vertue whereof she was intitled to his Estate and of a forced bargaine Garcias hoped to make the best
pleaded and all the proceedings in their owne language and that the subject should choose his owne Counsell till which none had Advocates but by the Kings leave h Per conge du Roy. Iurisconsultus potius respicit scripta patronis verba ad barram jurisprudens rem Aucupes syllabarum togatos vultures qui canina facundia callide exercent causas qui carebat sillaba perdid t patrimonium As one man cannot have his right because the judgment is entred concessum consideratum est another because consideratum or some other word is not rightly spelled Isay 29 21. Obvnum punctum perdit Martinus asellum There were in Rome Some Jurisconsulti inferiour to the Patron Advocates which only studied a Cabalasticall unknowne formulary of words in notes and Cifers which would picke a quarrell in every pleading brought unto them Cicero called them hunters for sillables worse than those that will make a man an Offender for a word that would make a man loose his inheritance for want of a So or a thereof as Martin that laid his Asse was white lost the wager because his Advocate found one blacke haire in it which being found brambes and enemies to State policy were stubd up and removed yet not long since Amedens the good Duke of Savoy hearing complaints made against an Advocate that was a great rubbe in the Alley of Justice sent for him and told him that he owed his Baker 1000. Crownes but was not willing to pay him till needs must asking him how long he could delay it before Execution should issue against the Dukes estate the Advocate told him that he could certainly delay him at the least three yeares And if his Councell were not extraordinary subtill he should get nothing at the last what saies the Duke is this sufferable doe not I acknowledge the debt to be just whereupon he caused him how justly I determine not to be executed and excoriated but the streame of our Law runs in a purer Channell It hath beene the great wisdome of severall Parliaments to remedy defects in pleadings and I doubt not but in its due time it wil be taken into mature consideration to ripen causes for speedy tryall it being quicke Justice cures the lingring comsumption of a State I doubt not but England shall flourish with Religion and Justice these two noble Virgins shall bee set upon the Throne hand in hand in perpetuall Concord I cannot but observe the neerenesse betweene Westminster-Hall and the Abbey and this godly exercise every morning a Sermon calculated directly for Lawyers and Clients speakes out that Piety and Justice Maugre all Antichristan opposition shall be married together with an indissoluble conjunction but precipitions and rash justice must carefully bee avoyded as a dangerous pest as that of Pison Sen de ira lib. 1. cap 16. who condemned one for a supposed murder of I. G. and his necke being on the blocke the Conspirator that had plotted it being there disguised said hold I am the man who was supposed to bee killed the Centurion returned his prisoner with great joy to Pison who said Justice must speedily be done and the case was difficult therefore sentenced them all three to be executed the first because hee was condemned fiat Justitia I. G. because he was dead in reputation and the Officer because he did not execute his office instantly I am not of some Turkes mindes that so the difference be ended it matters not much whether right be done or wrong because a peace is made without expence of time or Coyne but all differences betweene men ought to be ended with as much expedition as conveniently may be according to Law so as no more hast be made then good speed but what if legall proceedings be too circular and tedious I desire leave to speake to this question whereof neither Clients nor Councell are properly competent Judges the duty of the one being like good wax to receive and retain the impression of faithful advise of the other to be like a good Pilot to make what haste he can to bring his Client to the desired Haven and surely the shortest cut to the Harbour is ever best for as the end of War so the end of the Law is peace now the end of the profession and the professors shou d be the same He that delights in suits loves to be in a storme at Sea but truly I speak it knowingly and to the honour of our great practisers that they do for their 10 s. give good and faithfull advice casting about which way the Client may speedily receive justice And the reverend Judges when a certain thing is ripened for their judgments they speedily passe a definitive sentence and when they sit pronouncing judgment me thinks I see a rich Cabinet of precious jewels opened and admirable reasons expressed for the full satisfaction of Counsell and Clients which I cannot but mention for their honour because beyond sea the Judge will give no reason of his judgment and the Sentence is past in private that so Judges may not incurre the dangerous displeasure of the Client whereas justice with us is publikely pronounced in the gates of our City But do not Writs of Errour immortalize suits One sayes that those wooden Angels which support Westminster Hall are made of Irish oake that no Spider of errour should hang upon them Another sayes that in reason the errour should be assigned before the Record be removed because for the most part the common errour is only assigned but this string must bee touched very tenderly A stone that is ill placed in a building must not violently be removed it is requisite there should be some breathing time to make satisfaction after the Recovery The Civillians allow dayes of grace to provide the money whereas our proceedings are so speedy that the party may be taken in Execution the same day the judgement is entered and that Execution which is the life of the Law proves many times through miserable indurance the death of the party To explicate my selfe I must premise two things as undeniable verities First that no politique Law ought to contradict the Law of God because only those may marre that can make and Princes having no hand in the making of Gods Laws therefore may not dispense with them Secondly No humane Law ought to live any longer then the reason of it continues for reason is the souâ—e of all humane Lawes without exception and therefore in ancient Kingdomes and States many politique Lawes wlll be fubject to alteration Our Ancestours certainly were great husbands to make it death to steal a sheep or a Pig worth above 12 d. though it be to satisfie hunger for which by the strict rule of Law he ought to dye And so it is if any ready to starve shall take a loafe of bread from a Baker Lex moralis est vivens judicialis mortua solumin equitate ceremonialis mortifera which certainly
to the judgement of Heaven for the poore French men complaine of the multiplicity of appeales that one Court will Judge according to science another according to Conscience and a third according to Justice and that ambiguous case of the three Rings A man settle his Land upon that Child which shall have a certaine gold Ring which was for many yeares enjoyed accordingly at last one discreet Father bearing an equall affection to his three Sonnes caused a skilfull Artificer to make two other Rings for weight matter and forme so exactly alike that the true Ring could not be distinguished and gave unto each sonne a Ring who after his death went to Law for the estate but the right to this day cannot be determined with many other ingenious Cases wherein the Civilians abound but in this sence too much honey is not good I know the swelling of any Court above the bankes is like a deluge or an inundation of waters prodigious to a Kingdom the other Courts must needs suffer as when the spleene is in the Tide the other parts are in the Ebb but blessed be God there is a musicall concordance and sweet harmoney betweene our Courts of Law and equitie Sicut manus manum juvat our Courts of Justice are all Sisters as the Muses were that do not incroach upon but are helpfull to one another as one hand helpes another Concerning Delatory proceedings if Anonimus knew what tedious protractions the Subjects in Fâ—ance and other Kingdomes suffer under hee would not bee so impatient King Iames in that Speech of his in Starchamber 1614. promised to expunge all unnecessarie delayes and Ceremoniall formalities which were adversaries to the procuring of a speedy well grounded Justice and truly it is much to be wished that right might bee had at a cheaper rate that Justice in all Courts might passe at an easier charge that those weeds of needlesse charge and brambles of expence that grow about the vine of Justice might be plucked up and rooted out as farre as possible might be that the Client might have that for 6. d. for which he paies 12. d. and blessed be God for hopefull beginnings since these right honourable and right worthy Commissioners for the Great Seale have come in justice hath run in a more fluent streame and purer channell not dropt as formerly in two or three Termes the matter is ended unlesse the course of the Court be interrupted by circular motions which many times makes such a diversion that it is hard to reduce it to a regular proceeding for at the Barre too much is manytimes spoken but not inough whatsoever tends to the victory in way of veritie is to be spoken for the Client and no more when men come to fight they brave it not but strike at the heart let not an impertinent word be used in a Court of Justice if no motion might be heard unlesse the otherside had notice of the intention to move it might advantage both parties certainly but the most ancient honorable Courts are not without gray haires As the German inventor of Guns toldâ— Apollo it was that none should dare to make Warres I wish all Copies might containe 20. lines in every sheet to be written orderly and unwastfully I have often thought that the widenesse of the lines was that the parties might meet and agree finding copies so chargable and I conceive no answer ought to bee referred as insufficient without shewing some particular point of the defect and why should not Bills be dismist of course without motion some other practises fall under consideration as common Recoveries what necessitie there is of them why a Fine may not aswell serve to cut off reversions next whether in conscience the will of the donor ought to be violated then for collaterall Warranties why should not the strongest presumptions give place to the weakest proofes we read of those that have sworne themselves to be Whores to disinherit their own issue And for Out lawries why should the personall Estate be forfeited more reason to seise upon it for the debt the profits of the Land forfeited til a Feofment be made the Kings hand amoved and yet the Outlawry remaines and how easily are Outlawries reversed and what fruit has the partie of all his labour A man borrowes one thousand pound and purchases Land and dies the heire before his Father bee cold makes a Conveyance now the land is discharged from payment of debts Why is the heyre bound unlesse the Land bee chargeable after an alienation other things are yet amisse in matters testimentary and matrimoniall in charitie a man meddles with the goods of an intestate to see him buryed upon pleading that he was never Exector I know not how farre a man may suffer in that case why should not our common Law Judges determine legacies for goods as well as for lands Why may not a Legatee bring an Action of Debt against the Executor as well as a Creditor why may not our Judges determine what is a Contract of Marriage as well as other Contracts but let no man despise the day of small things for my owne part when I consider the noble propensitie in our right Honourable Commissioners and the Honourable the Master of the Rolls whose names for their unwearied pains and extraordinary diligence in the judicious and faithfull discharge of those great places of trust committed unto them so much conducing to publike security will bee honoured and renowned to all posterity to expedite matters in difference asking the counsell many times will your Client referre the matter telling us that they cannot endure trifling and nicities I rejoyce at that spirit of Reformation which I see orient in that court and much marvell that causes should depend halfe so long as they do so true is it that negotiations are easily dispatcht by many and it is no small security to the Kingdome that the seale is intrusted into so many safe hands for if the mole of Chancery lay upon the shoulder of one ATLAS hee would finde it weight inough to support and I have often thought that if it were possible a Chancellor or Lord Keeper should not have only infallibility because his assertion is of Pythagorical authority and that for the greatest estate in the Kingdome upon suggestion of a Trust but likewise impeccability least he should doe any thing against conscience yet notwithstanding if the wisdome of Parliament in whom the publique Judgment of state is lodged should conferre that honourable charge upon one as formerly no doubt whom God calls to any place he gives ability to discharge it for when God places any man in the Chaire of Justice he never puts himselfe besides the Cushion specially when Gods favorites are made Judges he is with them in the Judgment but of that more hereafter Concerning Bills of Chancery true it is that many times more is demanded then is due that so the just debt may be confessed but
party threatens to destroy the Parliament and so to drye up the fountaine of all our lawfull Libertyes the Parliament desires not to diminish his Majesties just grandor but to defend themselves and the Kingdom from violence and oppression For what ayme can a House of Commons have but the Common good But I leave that blesse God for what I see of some new elections of honest religious Lawyers of our society my life upon it Anonimous they will have no designe but the Kingdomes happinesse I tell thee none so fit as such Laweyers to be elected I doe not one whit disparage Gold when I say a Diamond is more valluable but I will make no such difference this I know I may say without offence that an honest Lawyer is as a 22 s. peece and an honest Gentleman as a 20 s. the reason is because he is both a good man and a Lawyer now a double sufficiency abillity must alwaies be preferred before a fingâ—e I would not so much advise as intreat my dear Countreymen that they would seriosly consider that the happines of this Kingdome is principally wrapt up in good elections it being of as great publique concernement for Countyes and Burroughs to choose worthy Patriots for Knights and Burgesses as the choyce of a wife is for any mans private happinesse wherein once to erre is to be undone perpetually And therefore to be exceeding carefull to choose men well principled for truly if there be not the Anchor of sincerity a principle of grace above pure naturalls it is a greâ—t marvaile if such men be not carried away with the winde tide of private advantages looking too much after the cock-boat of particular pecuniarie or amicable interests and so neglecting the ship of Sate Men of publique spirits that have been active and faithfull in times of greatest danger It is all the justice in the world that those which have suffered most for the Kingdome should be honoured by the Kingdome not to choose lookers on much lesse a It was a most gallant speach of My much honoured Lord the Noble Earle of Deubigh that if his Lordship knew of one drop of Malignant blood tunuing in his veines he would let it out himselfe Malignants or Neutrals which wise Solon could never indure as judging them rotten-hearted to the State that lay onely upon advantages to joyn with the stronger Party Then Faith b Spiritus Regenerationis et Regiminis faciunt felix Maritaginum Faithfulnes being premised the more humane learning the greater parts abillities indowments in all other respects both mentall and corporall the better it must needs be without exception because humane learning is consecrated and appoynted by God for publique government and certainly he that undertakes so weighty a businesse with feare and trembling and a Godly jealousie over his owne heart and abillities continually imploring Caelestiall assistance is the likeliest man to be instrumentall for all our happinesse for c As ingenious Mr. Withers observes who hath prevented me in this subject in many juditious Observations and directions Had it not been for our Renowned Hâ—mdens Pyms Goodwinâ— nonâ—e actum fuissâ—â— de Libertatibus truly to be a Parliament man requires a piercing judgement and a deep foresight into publique administrations this I would onely begg of my deare Countrey men that in doubtfull cases when many may justly be elected that they would allwayes preferre him who in the constant course and tenor of his life hath given largest testimony of his love and affection to God and goodnesse for truly Iesus Christ hath saved the Kingdome But if all Electors should not walke by that rule it does not any way reflect upon the non elected no more then when two noble Gentlmen court a worthy Lady where one must needs have a deniall He that in the sincerity integrity of his heart desires to serve God by serving the Kingdome in a publâ—ck way if he be lawfully called thereunto internaly by God externally by man he may l ve with content and shall dye with comfort as the wise Venetian that was not called to the Senate said I rejoyce that there are 500. abler men in the Citie then my selfe It is a most happy condition to be ever doing good and to be just serviceable to our generation in sincerity without hipocrisy but what paines soever any man takes for his Countrey it is but cracking an hard shell the kernell is his owne sweet content here and perpetuall mansions hereafter Vendidit hic auro Patriam As on the contrary Traitors to their Countrey Subverters of Lawes and Libertyes will be placed in the worst chambers in Hell before selfe-Murderers As for Reformation in Courts of Justice where any thing is amisse I protest it is my highest ambition I ayme it in my profession there is an envious opinion which I would fain remove that Lawyers are enemyes to Reformation in matters of Justice I am sure every honest Lawyer heartily desires the good of his Country whatsoever the Parliament shall conclude most conducible to publique justice I hope we shall embrace with all alacritie knowing that we are a considerable part of the Kingdom what is good for the whole body must needs be good for every part of it Indeed if there be any malignant or newtrall Gown-men or Swordmen that have publick imployments high Places â—erdate vâ—i â—â—iori â—â—ista loquiâ— qui est omâ— homo â—t conspiraâ—ta Daemonia Take heed Gentlemen saies the Italian when a Jesuit comes to aske any question for where great parts and little honesty concurr then Caveto be your Councellor And truly that word Sword men puts me in minde of our pretious Armies which no doubt are dear to the remembrance of every good man as the most vertuous Lady to an inamored Suitor It would be a very unrighteous thing and me thinks blame worthy to forget their extraordinary labours of love and to conclude a Lawe treatise or indeed to write any booke without an Honourable remembrance of them that have been so instrumentall to maintaine our Lawes and happy Government For I know no greater Argument to perseverance next to an inward Principle of goodnesse then that honest men are fully perswaded that a man is just and gratious for a great ingagement lyes upon him to answer expectation Greater love did never any Nation show then the most honoured Brethren of the Kingdom of Scotland to come in so freely to help the Lord against the mighty the Lord recompence it and all the good that they have done for us unto them with all Spirituall and Temporall Benedictions What Laurels of honourable Prayses are due to the most Noble late Lord Generall Illustrious Essex to numerous gallant Commanders under his Excellencies command Oh that we had an Homer to sing the praises of every good and great Achilles The King of Sweden was wont to say upon the death or
change of any great Commander that when God rides post for the good of his Church he uses many times to change horses that one may not have all the honour many of our Centurions have done so gallantly that many Volumes cannot containe their just praises therefore I intreat their pardon that I doe not name any in perticuler least I should not pay them half their due so be thought to exclude the rest dear Soules they have marched many a myle to ingage for us therfore if I make a little digression to testifie my honourable respect to them it cannot be thought unreasonable Concerning our Noble Generall whom I trust shall shortly have the Olive for his just Guerdion for I hope we shall not long continew under the Malignant constellation of Mars Saturne as Crowes amongst Carcasses but every honest man shall live peaceably under the gratious influence of Iupiter Venus for matters of millitary prowes gallant valour I need not say any more but that he is the son of the Right Honorable the Lord Fairfax and of the noble Daughter of the truly Noble Earle of Mulgrave And here Duty and Gratitude must make a parenthesis I cannot mention this good Earle without an honorable remembrance in whom Greatnesse and Goodnesse keepe their cohabitation for having had the honour to advise his Lordship concerning his estate I finde a mine of wisedome in his noble minde our late Soveraigne King Iames rejoyced at his magnanimous comporting the losse of his three noble Sonnes The Relation whereof deserves a whole volume one saying was most remarkeable that Iesus Christ my Saviour dyed without issue Salvato meus mortuus est fine exitu how zealously affected his Lordship hath been for God and his Countrey since 88. I am sure all good men love and honour him for it Indeed the Piety Humillity and chaine of Graces in the noble Countesse and the vertuous Ladyes wherein all their ambition is to excell one another far exceed the most invaluable Diamons and Iewels and to say much in little So much as a man brings of Christ with him thither so much welcome there Now that I may be true to my first principles I shall say nothing of his Excellence but in relation to Iesus Christ This fully discovers the excellency of our Noble Generalls spirit that deserving so much he will not take the least honour to himself but all must be ascribed to God those numerous victoryes looked upon as love tokens from Heaven handed over by the Lord Christ as forerunners of that absolute Victorye which He will have over all his enemyes and rejoyces so far form as God makes him instrumentall for the good of the Kingdome What an honour is it to command them who command themselves Omnis denominatio sumiter a digniori vel a Majori and those whom the Angels rejoyce to serve and for an Army of Lyons to be commanded by a Lyon who is commanded by the Lyon of the Trybe of Iudah what Anti-Christian Power can make resistance when it pleases God to lead them by the hand who hath promised to stand at the right hand of his servants and will honour them that so unfainedly out of right principles by true meanes and for glorious ends honour him I cannot but take notice that our Noble Generall is of Graies Inne nor can I forbeare a general remembrance of many precious gentlemen in the Army of the same society in whom the seeds of vertue have bin sowne even from their yeares of discretion I wish many Armes were taken downe from our Hall windowes and these noble Gentlemen placed in their roome for as hee that fights for the Law Ex parte Dei et ex parte rei Annot. 2. Tim. 4.7 Lachrymae sunt sudores cordis wins an honourable esteem of all good men so they that oppose the Law ought by the Law of Armes to have their Coates removed and just as I was writing there comes newes to mee that there is one heavenly light more in Heaven sweet Colonell Pickering having fought a good fight and kept the faith and professed a good profession before many witnesses hath finished his Course received his garland even a Crowne of righteousnesse Sir Gilbert Pickering one of the noble Knights for Northamptonshire and were it manly the sweat of my heart would blot my paper and were it not that pure love cannot consist with much greife when the party beloved is made a Saint and that his noble Brother carries al the graces and vertues by survivorship they being joynt tenents of them all his losse should ever be green in my rememberance What actings of faith do we heare of for the taking of strong holds from the Enemies that gallant Gentleman second in command who feares nothing but to offend God at the storme of Basing being acted with the same spirit that the propheticall Psalmist was confident that God would enfeeble the hands and legs of Popery Psalm 115. â— and that their Idolls were but vanity and not only then but many other times the Lord hath graciously said unto them according to your faith so be it unto you The Generall question is still what is the minde of Iesus Christ in this particular was there ever such glorious things done by faith since the 11th of the Hebrews Oh what heavenly breathings of the spirit and religious Conference is there in the Army when will Sion be establisht in perfect beauty saies one when shall Iesus Christ be set gloriously upon his throne saies another God can save by one as by many saies a third le ts do our worke and trust Jesus Christ for our wages shall we think much to loose our blood for him who has shed his precious blood for us Jesus Christ tooke Bristoll no Iron barres can keepe out Jesus Christ if we die we live and our Indentures are but given us in a little before their ordinary time with many such sweete divine expressions that they are in heaven upon earth abounding in that excellent grace of spirituall resignation in all the dispensations of divine providence the hand of God is allwayes good and his time is ever the best that I am even ravished at the apprehension of them never having heard the like unlesse it were in that most comfortable speech of that deare servant of Christ Mr. Burton at his suffering the like glorious manifestation of the spirit in my oppinion is not legible in Mr. Foxes worthy labours besides a most admirable spirit of love Commands as in cheife throughout the Army that I heard a gallant man say it were worth riding 5000. miles to behold it but I shall turne my prayses of them into prayers for them that not a haire of their heads may perish though truly I do not so much praise them as the gifts and graces of God in them wheresoever we meete Jesus Christ and see but the least dawnings and breathings of