to bewaile my sinnes and sue for mercy Wouldst thou then be a new man be so now Wouldst thou then seeke Gods fauour seeke it now Wouldst thou then amend all faults amend them now Why doest thou not preuent those ifs and conditions which will then bee but foolish thoughts why doest thou not that this day nay day by day all thy life long which thou wouldest doe at such an extremity seeing thou knowest not which will be thy last day why doest thou not doubt al thy daies endeuour to be such a one al thy life as thou wouldest be at the point of death But put case thou knewest thy life would be lengthned out to some forty or fifty yeares more and that thou wert assured not to dy the vtmost expiration of those yeares be like then thou wouldst nothing but follow thy lustes the while and thinke the last yeare soone enough to reforme thee But blind fooles they are that are thus conceited if thou canst not with the straining of all thy sinewes pull vp a yong tree of two or three yeares planting how wilt thou hope to pull it vp when the spurs of the rootes are fastened deep on euery side and the boughes are like to the couering of a tent ouer thy head Assay to root out but one vice now whilest it is fresh and greene and thou shalt finde it a matter of some paines and difficulty and will it be easier thinkest thou seuen yeares hence when the custome of it is growne to a habit or as it were another nature and the generation therof multiplied to an hundred to a thousand Say a man were now to carry a basket of stones frō London Bridge to Islington setting forward about the stoopes with the basket on his shoulder feeling the waight thereof to pinch and wring him should presently like a true louer of his ease set it downe againe till another time and euery day the while come and put in more stones till it were heape full and running ouer would you thinke the basket would be lighter at last for these daily additions or this man likelier to cary it through then being grown rustie with many yeares sloth whē it made him shrug to stand vnder it in the beginning while his strength was fresh No no my deere brethren the longer we continue in sinne the fuller and heauier growes the basket and the vnweldier wee grow that must be the porters Come come vp with it carry it you must and it will neuer be lighter nor you better able to beare it then you be at this present straine your selues for a furlong or two though it sit vneasie at first you shall finde it lighter after a little vse Better smart once then ake euer set about it despaire not of the successe by consideration of the difficulty pray God both humbly and continually to impart vnto you his holy spirit and to shed it out in your hearts through Iesus Christ that you may compresse your owne affections and by his strength ouercome all impediments walke more in all holy obedience before him only be not your owne foe feed not that same humour of lingring let not loose the raines to your corrupt affectiōs which cry stil a little more sleep a little more slumber For the holy Ghost doth not assist cowards and sluggards such as fit idly with their armes folded together but those that labour and endeuour earnestly to tame their naturall wickednes and to crosse the swing of their lusts those he deemeth worthy his aide and they in him shall be more then conquerors Set your hand to Gods hand the worke will be nothing The violent and resolute that breake thorow all opposition they and no other take heauen by maine force But say that the Black-moore could change his skin and the Leopard his spots and that you hauing learned all daies of your life to do euill could at the last repent and doe wel yet what an vnthākfull vnbeseeming thing were it to spend your youthful daies in the pleasures of the world the seruice of the Diuell then to bring your crooked worne daies to offer to the Lord To call the Diuell and the world to the feast and full dishes and let God stand at dore waiting among the beggers for the reuersion scraps The Lord himselfe is driuen to complaine of this base measure by his Prophet When ye bring the blind for sacrifices you say it is not euill and when ye bring the lame and sick ye say it is good enough for God Offer it now to thy Prince will he be content with thee or accept thy person saith the Lord of hostes Repent and be ashamed of this ingratitude play not the harlots with God let none haue the maidenhead of your youth but your deere Lord husband Let none enioy the flower and beauty of your time but hee that bought you with his precious bloud you are his giue him his owne let him haue it new and faire not when it is mangled misused that one cannot but blush in the presenting of it Cast your selues into his embracement in your youth health whilest you haue something to commend you his armes are open to receiue you stay not looking for a better match this is the best that euer you shall light on take it whilest it is offred you shall neuer repent you of your earlie bestowing Hereafter perhaps God will hold you vnworthy of his loue as hertofore you held him vnworthy of yours and scorne you in your old age and sicknes as you set not by him in your health and youth The fiue virgins for lingring but one houre and that in their youth and prime were shut out of the marriage chamber and had this answere to their knocking I know you not you are no friends nor guests of mine And shall we thinke the Lord will open vnto vs and giue vs a cheerful welcome lingring not houres but yeares and prostituting our virginity and prime to the world the Diuell Gods sworne enemies Yet the the doore is open you may fill your lamps with oile and be wise by their harmes But if you put it to hereafter the gates will be shut and all your knocking will be but so many fruitles strokes rebounding vpon your owne hearts Lastly whilest we lie soaking in sin and returne euery day to our old vomit we do pile vp more and more wood for our owne burning I meane we do increase our accounts against that firy day of wrath which will come vpon as a theefe in the night in which the heauens shall passe away with a noise and the element shall melt with heat and the earth with the workes that are therein shall be consumed then shall all the thoughts of our hearts be discouered and an account required of euery idle word that we haue spoken So strict shall that iudgment be Where wil the vngodly and sinner appeare
THE PRENTISES PRACTISE IN GODLInesse and his true freedome Diuided into ten Chapters Written by B. P. PROVERBS 17.2 A discreet Seruant shall haue more rule then the Sonnes that haue no wisedome and shall haue like heritage with the Brethren LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Bach and are to be sold at his shop in Popes head Palace 1608. TO THE RELIGIOVSly disposed and vertuous yong men the Apprentises of the City of London all happines both in this life and in the life to come PYthagoras the Philosopher expressing the double course of mans life by the letter Y intimateth that which our Sauiour Christ hath more plainly set downe concerning the double way whereof one hath a strait passage and narrow gate at the first which few do embrace but in the end thereof there is great comfort and rest for it guideth the passenger vnto eternall happinesse and saluation The other is wide and spacious at the beginning wherby many trauaile but in the end they find great trouble and straitnesse for it leadeth vnto euerlasting woe and destruction Both these waies are set before our eies as life and death for we may not be idle but of necessity must walke seeing our life is a pilgrimage and choose either to trauell the narrow way vnto life or to runne the broad way vnto death The way of life is a religious profession a vertuous and conscionable carriage when wee giue vnto God that which is Gods and to Cesar our Magistrates and Masters that which belongeth vnto them The gate of this way is narrow and the passage strait for the liberties of flesh and blood must be restrained our affections bridled and the whole man captiuated vnder the yoke of the obedience of Iesus Christ as also such whom we are to obey serue vnder him The way of death is a sinfull and licentious life when we serue sin and Satan and make no conscience of obediēce neither towards god not man The gate of this way in the beginning is broad and the passage easie giuing liberty full head to our youthy affections and lusts of the flesh but the end is vtter perdition and straitnes Wherfore let euery yong man beholding these two waies choose that which leadeth vnto eternall life in heauen by a sanctified life for a time on earth walking sincerely with him who is the Way the Truth and the Life To this end I haue penned this insuing Tractate which welbeloued Brethren I haue commended vnto your fauourable acceptance that therin you might see which is the narrow way the way of life learne how to trauell therein neither let that diuellish prouerb a yong Saint an old Diuel direct your course but endeuor being yong to be Saints of God to dedicate your youth to him and his seruice onely who vndoubtedly will giue you constancie to perseuere that you may become Old Saints on earth and at last a ioyfull end that you may be Blessed Saints in heauen liue with him for euermore to whose gracious mercifull protection in the meane time I commend you all Amen Your euer louing Brother B. P. The Epistle to the Reader CHristian and Charitable Reader many are the discouragemēts that the children of God receiue at the hands of wicked men in this iron and declining age of the world from the sincere embracing of the Gospell or shewing forth the fruits of sanctification in this crooked and sinfull generation but much more from publishing any holy Treatise tending to this purpose to omit the bookes that are written not of vertue and verity but of vilenes and vanity which many offer now a daies as so many Sacrifices to the diuell by the which as with so many cups of poisō he infecteth the hearts of milliōs of people what great delight the enemy of mankind taketh herein he that can see any thing may easily discerne by the cursed instruments which he raiseth vp from time to time as his children the Papists whom wee had thought long agen had beene dead in their nests yet now like serpents hauing cast their coates begin to lift vp their heads out of their holes wīth fresh and new coloured heresie and with their poysoned pennes as a holy man of God saith haue defiled not inke and paper but heauen and earth with their detestable and satanicall wickednesse But to let them sinke in their sin til they come to the bottome of hell which is of old for thē prepared who sees not the whole world is rocked asleep in the cradle of security wallowing in their sins like fishes in the sea so that we may take vp that complaint which the Lord proclaimed from heauen in the daies of Hosea saying The Lord hath a controuersie with the world because there is no truth mercy nor knowledge of God but by swearing and lying and stealing and whoring they breake out and bloud toucheth bloud and being thus frozen in their dregs hauing made a league with death a couenant with hell it selfe they are of the same minde with these people of whom we spake saying Yet let no man rebuke or reproue another for the people are as they that rebuke the Priest not onely despising instruction and refusing admonition but they murmure at Moses and Aron and are ready to stone Caleb and Ioshua the two Captaines of the Lords host and we are become their enemies for telling them the truth Howbeit whē the eies of mercifull men are set vpon thē labouring to saue their soules from being condemned with the world beseeching them to breake vp the fallow ground of their hearts that the Lord might raine righteousnes vpon them they are ready to giue them Steuens reward for his sweet Apology Acts 7. and though they haue not the authority of the Magistrate yet with the vnruly euill of the tongue they assemble themselues as the Prophet Ieremy speaketh saying Come let vs smite them but how with swords or staues no surely but with the cursed weapō of the tongue according to the custome of al wicked men frō time to time with reprochings reuilings with their venemous arrowes as much as in them lies to shut and pierce thorow the hearts of the Saints of God with that odious and damnable name of Hypocrite and dissembler so that we may say with the Prophet Ieremy We are in derision dayly euery one mocketh vs and as he saith else where Woe is me that my mother hath borne me a contentious man whomall the world hateth Yea surely so far may we be from stirring one another vp in this kinde that wee may weep and sigh in secret as diuers of the Saints of God haue done wish with this Prophet Oh that my head were full of water and mine eies a fountaine of teares Ier. 9.1.2 that I might weep day and night for the slaine of the daughters of my people Oh that I had in the wildernesse a cottage of waifaring men Yea
surely if the wil of the Lord were we could wish with the Prophet that we had the wings of a Doue that wee might flie to the vttermost parts of the earth that we might be out of the reach rage of the wicked men but such is the zeale of the glory of God wherwith his children are inflamed such is the nature of faith wherewith their hearts are touched together with the large promises wherewith they are allured that in despight of diuels or men they haue alwaies made conscience of this duty Hence it is that in the scriptures wee haue so many examples of this kinde It was Peters commission that when he was conuerted hee must strengthen his brethren The woman of Samaria when Christ came to her conscience she hideth it not vnder a bushell but runneth into the city with open proclamation saying to her neighbours Come see a man that told mee all that euer I did Yea wee finde that this hath alwaies beene so precisely obserued that the children of God haue neuer neglected it in the time of greatest affliction that euer they did vndergoe onely two shall suffice in stead of many whereof the first is in the Lamentations where the Church speaketh after this manner Haue you no regard all you that passe by this way Lament 1 12. to behold and see where there is any sorrow like vnto my sorrow which is done vnto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted mee in the day of his fierce wrath Wherein wee see the perpetuity of the loue of the children of God towards their Brethren that euen when they were at deaths doore they called vpon their neighbours to make vse of the iudgements of GOD. Answerable to this is that famous example of the Theefe on the Crosse who notwithstanding the dolour and paine wherein he languished yet perceiuing the desperate and fearefull estate of his fellow that hee was in sharply reproueth him and vseth diuers arguments and reasons to moue him to lay hold of the Sauiour of the world as he had done before he died These examples no doubt together with the reasons aboue specified mooued this new conuert being also unportuned by diuers of his acquaintance to publish this litle Treatise as a fruit of his thankfulnesse like Dauid that would not offer a sacrifice of that which cost him nothing and yet hath as it seemeth to me some blush or resemblance with that zeale wherewith the holy Prophet Dauid was inflamed when hauing receiued special benefits from the Lord he hath these words Psalm 66. Oh come hither all you that feare God and I will tell you what the Lord hath done for my soule making open proclamation as it were vpon the Theater of the world or as he speaketh when hauing felt that sweetnesse of the which this author had a tast he laboureth presētly to impart it to others saying taste and see how gracious the Lord is Psalm 34. blessed is the man that trusteth in him euer vsing a borrowed speech familiar to our senses taken from the fashion of Merchants who hauing brought some rare and costly commodity from beyond the seas are wont to permit a taste and giue a sight to the end the buyer may be the more induced to accept of the same And truely this is the practise of this new conuerted Prentise who hauing lien a long time sleeping in security esteeming highly of the things of this vaine world till it pleased the Lord in mercy to looke vpon him the scales falling from his eies Cant. 2.8 so that hee perceiued the Lord comming vnto him skipping ouer hilles and leaping ouer mountaines meaning his sinnes as may appeare by that we read in Rom 8. as one awaked out of a dreame he maruailed and reioiced greatly at his wonderful deliuerance and being desirous to make many partakers of his happinesse he taketh his penne and writeth this little Treatise and Labor of loue consisting in foure speciall heads as appeareth in the first leafe of this booke concerning the manner of it you are not to expect much painted eloquence filed phrases figures allusions which haue little vse more then to tickle the eares but euen with all humility and meeknes out of his own experience wisheth comfort by the comfort wherwith he was comforted of God Heere I remember part of a story in Samuel where it is thus written 1 Sam. 17.8 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake vnto thē and was very angry with Dauid and said why commest thou down hither with whō hast thou left the sheep I know thy pride the malice of thine heart c. Euen so I feare mee there be many Eliabs senior to the yong seruant of God Dauid that will not onely impute this worke to pride of heart but wil aske With whom hast thou left thy sheep that is how hee hath discharged his duty to his master iudging it a matter vnlawfull for him to meddle withall because hee shall offer iniury to his master in the practise hereof For answere whereunto we are to obserue a difference according to the nature and quality of the place and calling Some seruice perhaps will warrant that which others do vtterly deny them for art thou an artificer and of an occupation thou hast not this liberty without extraordinary allowance of thy master On the contrary is hee a trades man and vsing trafficke then the most and chiefest of his businesse is in receiuing and deliuering of commodities in the which much vacant time is idly spent and happy are you and blest of God that haue such a seruāt you may be sure to be wel faithfully dealt withal in the charge commited vnto him when others are wickedly abused But if this suffice not know you that hee had extraordinary allowance of his kind and fauourable master Moreouer I am of that priuity and acquaintance with him that I may protest in the sight of God and before men that this vertuous Prentise and sanctified yong man hath vsed of his owne vertuous disposition to rise two or three houres in the morning before he was imploied in his masters affaires which as it was a thing commendable proceeding from a good inclination so surely now is it much more praise worthy being found in the way of righteousnesse because the teachers therof are highly to be commended so that we are not alwaies to reproue and contemne seruants in this kinde lest in so doing we giue a hard censure of Dauid himselfe of whom we spake euen now But happily you will reply and say that Dauid came in zeale of Gods glory to take the shame from Israel which was much dishonored by the vncircumcised Philistine a fearefull great and huge monster In nature I answere that Goliah neuer blasphemed the Lord of hosts more then wee nor euer had more fingers and toes of deformity I meane Papists and Atheists which are in indeed the weapons naturall liues of our spirituall
reconciliation with God when by casting off sinne in this houre he may in this houre cast off al these curses and miseries accompanying sinne and so both liue a blessed life all his time and close vp his daies with a blessed death which shall be the beginning of eternall life what foolish bodie wouldly forty or fifty yeares mortally languishing of some disease refusing to be cured all his best time and seeking helpe onely in his last worst time when the cure is doubt full by reason nature is decayed or if he recouer yet he cannot enioy his health aboue a day or a weeke or a month and then giue ouer life all But ten thousand times worse infatuated are they that would lie the whole age of a mā in a mortall languishment of soule as it were bedred by reason of sinne and neuer take the physick of repentance till they lie gasping for breath when it is vncertaine whether they shall then haue leasure to repent or if they repent whether it will be of force and able to fetch life in the soule being so farre gone in that desperate consumption or if they recouer and liue the true life which rarely happens they liue in a sort too late both to themselues and others CHAP. 4. THey haue euer proued vnprofitable in religion that haue held too much of that truantly rule the way to well doing is neuer too late Eccles Therefore Salomon calles vpon yong men to remember their Creator in their yong daies as if well doing were neuer too soone Heb. 3.13 And the Apostle exhorteth the Hebrues to call one vpon another to turne to God whilest it is called to day not to make it a morrowes worke his reason is Lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulnes of sinne See heere then one maine danger of dwelling in our sinnes and putting off our amendment from one day to another the longer we continue in sinne the more we are hardened in sinne so that at length wee cannot repent no though wee seeke it with teares as Esau did It is as easie to temper the flint stone betweene our fingers and to make it soft and pliable for sealing as to supple our stonie hearts and fit thē to receiue the impression of grace you thinke you can repent when you will and apprehend the mercies of God when your owne leasure serues you but you are deceiued it is not in man to order his waies nor to returne into the right path being mislead Sinne is cunning and will make you beleeue you may come and goe without entanglement or restraint especially whilest you haue day light enough before you But trust not this fleering Iahel for if you vse to turne in to sleepe in her tent and tast of her milke and butter which she can set in a Lordly dish she wil when you suspect least nayle your head to the ground that it shall be impossible to get loose from her Iudg. 16. This Dalila hath a crue of Philistines ready in a corner when she hath shorne the lockes of your strength vpon her lap to come vpon you and bind you with fetters and put out your eies that you shall neither haue power to start nor yet see the meanes to make an escape In your youth she will teach you to excuse your mistreadings with It is the time and when that excuse is out of fashion by reason of more yeares puld ouer your heads then she will reach you another Apologie It hath beene my custome and I cannot leane it and then followeth hardnes of heart that you cānot repent the greatest iudgemēt that God bringeth vpon a man or woman in this world for then we are past hope God hath decreed our destruction and all the prayers and suffrages of the faithfull which are of great force will doe vs no good God wil answere as hee did to Ieremie Doe not intreat noe for them Ier. 7.16 14.11 make no intercession to doe them good for I wil in no wise heare you I haue thrust them out of my sight I haue decreed to destroy them Yet you may preuent this iudgement yet your custome of euil is not so strong but you may breake it yet you may cast off a litle and a little by good custome that which you haue got at times by euill custome yet your hearts are tender flexible deferre not the new moulding of them til they be growne peruerse and incorrigible lay hold of offered grace whilest the accepted time the day of saluation lasts Remember he that promiseth mercie to the penitent hath not promised repentance to the presumer vpon mercy nor one day of life to the delayer of repentance But you are yong and healthy what then therefore you are not like to die do not lambes skinnes come to be sold as well as sheepes skinnes Doe we not see and heare where euer we go that men and women die that were neither sicke nor old wee may say we will go to morrow to such a place to see such a commodity to receiue such a summe of money to make merry c. and yet before this next euening may heare that voice Foole to preuent thy bargainings thy talkings thy merriments c. this night before the morrow thy soule shall be taken from thee Aske but that one street which leadeth from the City to the common iudgement hall how many times her stones haue beene bestained with the reeking gore of murdered men since the beginning of this last terme and tell me whether life be so sure a thing when so many sound bodies haue groand their last in a peaceable well gouerned City within the compasse of one terme and the limits of one street and how knowest thou whether thy time be not as short as theirs seeing as I said afore not onely wicked men vpon earth but all the Diuels in hell all the creatures in the world are armed against thee whilest thou remainest impenitent and weltrest in thy sinnes Thou knowest how short warning Esay 38.1 Ezekias had Put thy house in order for thou shalt die and not liue Numb 20.25 And Aron Bring Aron and Eleazar his sonne vp into mount Hor and cause him to put off his garments and put them vpon his sonne and then he shall die immediately vpon the top of the mount What if the like warning were giuen thee where is thy repentance then become where are thy good purposes for hereafter Then thou wilt cry out if I had knowne my time had beene so short Ifs at deaths aproch vaine foolish I would long ere this haue reformed my waies If it were now to begin my life I would take another course In what sanctimony and vprightnes would I walke before God man O that the Lord would spare me a little before I goe away from hence and be no more seene O that he would allowe me but one moneth or one weekes respite
godly seruāts for the liberal disposition of a child is easily spilt with the leaud manners of a seruant Hence it commeth that almost their first words are ribauldrie and feareful othes and that they learne to blaspheme God before they can plainely speake GOD yea sometime they proue twofold more the children of Satan then their Tutors were For a new vessell will keep the tatch of the first seasoning a long time after Cause them therefore to frequent the holy exercise of religion as Preaching Catechising Praier Sacraments c. Bring them with you where they may be instructed in the waies of the Lord to doe righteousnesse especially on the Sabbath day because that is a day appointed and set apart of God himselfe for his worship and seruice wherein he wil haue our seruant as free as our selues and to the end we may prepare them the better to the sanctifying of the Lords day we are to call them vp betimes in the morning to praier wherein first we are to thanke the Lord for all his mercies to such vnworthy wretches and namely for the rest and preseruation the night past Then to beseech his Maiestie that hee would so prepare and fit our hearts to the profitable retaining of his most holy and blessed word and so direct the mouthes of his ministers that day in the vttering of it that it may be a comfortable sauour of life and saluation to vs and not a sauour of death vnto destruction And hauing ended this duty by 7. in the morning we may if wee will directly goe where there shall bee a Sermon vntill eight so comming home we are to goe to our owne Parish Church both in the forenoone and in the afternoone and after that to some Lecture as there be diuers blessed bee GOD in diuers parts of the City And hauing thus spent the day till six at night we are not to content our selues there thinking we haue done by this time a work of supererogation but to come directly from the Lecture to our houses and call our seruants together to praiers to almighty God that it would please his Maiestie to giue a blessing vpon that which we haue heard that wee may auoide the sinnes execute the good duties feare the threatnings and lay vp the comforts from the mouth of his ministers plainely shewed and laid down vnto vs. And hauing ended praiers for that instant we are to examine euery one of them particularly what lessons they haue learned at Church and what vses they were taught of those lessons and hauing done that to giue them a generall exhortation incouraging them to goe forward in godlinesse which hath promises of this life and of that which is to come and so to make an end for that time with singing a Psalm of thankesgiuing NOW as we are to performe these duties on the Sabbath day so we haue our duties to performe on the weeke daies also For it is not enough for any man to giue his family victuals and prouision one day in the weeke and let them fast all the rest of the weeke after for so he should soone make a leane houshold but we must deale with our seruants in Spiritual things as we deale with them in Corporall things that is as wee allow them meat and drinke sufficiently all the weeke daies and on the Sabbath day they haue extraordinary dishes So although we haue beene carefull to pray and instruct them in religion on the Sabbath day yet we must looke we do our duties in the weeke daies also although not like vnto the Sabbath for the Lord doth not require it at our hands This discipline and good order if wee would carefully inure our Prentises to seuen or eight yeares together till their first youth the age which is set vpon the very pinacle of temptations be past ouer methinkes it were enough to kill all the weedes of vices in them to make euen Atheists religious and grow into a habit of sanctimony and godlinesse Here I thinke it needfull for euery one of vs as we are yet seruants to know our duties also that wee may demeane our selues agreeably to our present condition Seruants duty First then wee are to follow the counsel of the Apostle to be obedient vnto our bodily masters with feare and trembling because they be in their places vnto vs as God God hath set thē ouer vs in his own stead and therefore we ought not onely to carry a reuerend estimation of them counting them worthy of all honor but to performe our duty and seruice vnto them not to the eie as men pleasers but as the seruants of Christ doing the will of God himselfe singlie and from the heart labouring continually to please them and submitting our selues to thē in all things as the holy Ghost commandeth But this must not be vnderstood absolutely but with an exception So they bee lawfull things For if a master command his seruant to speake a lie or to sweare his commodities cost so much when they cost much lesse or to breake the Lords Sabbath in such a case we ought rather to obey God then man but in all iust and lawfull impositions not crossing their roiall commandement we are to conforme our selues in all duty and obedience to them yea not only to the good and courteous but euen to the froward sower For this is thankworthy saith Saint Peter if a seruant for conscience toward GOD endure smart suffering wrongfully But it is a great fault in vs that are seruants that if correction be giuen vs though with iustice and discretion we will say most commonly wee deserue it not This is not the saying of the holy Ghost For saith he what praise is it for a seruant to be buffeted for his faults but and if yee fault not and yet suffer hard vsage and take it patiently then is there thanke with God And herein what better satisfaction or quieting of our mindes can we desire then the example of our Sauiour himselfe who neuer sinned neither was there guile found in his mouth yet he was reuiled and reuiled not againe he suffered beyond all degrees of patience opened not his mouth but committed reuenge to him that iudgeth righteously euen to God his Father So ought wee my Brethren when our masters bee out of reason and offer vs extreame measure to put it vp and endure it patiently knowing that they also haue a master in Heauen who beholdeth with an equall eie both vs and them and not to answer Sir I deserue it not For if correction should not bee giuen to the most of vs till wee confesse we deserue it it should neuer be giuen vs. Heere I cannot keepe silence but I must needes make known how good and gratious the Lord hath shewed himselfe in this case to mee his most vnworthy seruant and the rather to cause all other Prentises to thinke themselues not miserable but most happy when the Lord hath set ouer them such