there is not a well grounded hope to be blessed S alvation in repentance is Gods end let not him lose his hope and wee shall not lose ours Y f a man will be noble let him be humble for the humble shall bee exalted O ur honours are the fruits of birth of wisdome of valour of riches of place and authority or of royall favour but it is never of the fruit of grace nor the blessing of God without humility U nlesse we honour Christ otherwise then the world doth we have no more grace then the worldling hath W ee have not the signe of a star in our foreheads but the signe of the crosse still humility is the way to glory this way went all the Saints this way went even the God of Saints E arthly inheritances are oftentimes divided with much inequality and the priviledge of primogeniture stretcheth far but in the new heaven it is not so R iches gotten and forgotten must be accounted for before God the divine Justice Gehezaes talent of gold could not buy off his sores nor hide his shame E ven the poorest amongst us may give praises unto God and the more he spares us in our bloods and estates the more we are obliged to him in thankfulnesse H olinesse is not tyed to literature Doctor and Saint are not convertible for then he that knowes his Masters will could not chuse but doe it A man may be sooner acquainted with the nine Muses then with the three Graces Learning Discretion and Honesty L et others be full of the politicks it is good for us to be well habited in the morrals one thing is necessary integrity of heart F lattery and treachery are but two names of one vice 〈…〉 dry suits of mischiefe E very man that defends not Gods Church glorifies him not for he means small honour to the head that does not his best to save the body F aithfull service is most accepted where it is least expected some would doe much for Christs glory and cannot thousands of us can doe much for his glory and will not I t is better for a man to want some truth then want peace for a man that never studied controversies may without controversie be saved L et every soule humbly cast himselfe downe at the foet of Christ and bee beholding to him only for his salvation for our best workes are but blankes E very wise man will be easily requested to doe himselfe good when God sues to us to save us we are sullen to hinder our own preferment S alvation comes from God yet he will be found a God of judgement they that have denyed it their mortall flesh shall acknowledge it in immortall fire T here be two things torment a man sinne and a bad conscience grace delivers from sinne and peace quiets the conscience O ld men covetous young men voluptuous Nobles ambitious common persons ceremonious or whosoever is led away with any kinde of wantonnesse is brought within the Devills lure T here is fearfull combustion all over the world wars at home wars abroad if therefore we love peace every man pray for peace H ee that desires to be found in peace let peace be found in him peace or nothing peace and every thing E very whispering and murmuring is like a vapour rising out of the earth multiplying into stormes of sedition sedition grows into mutinies and mutinies into confusion R emember David that holy King would admit no States-min as far as he could discerne but such as were after his owne heart I t s a true protraitor of the Churches condition that as Israel hath beene temporally wasted so the Church of God is now spiritually assaulted G od would have us read our sinnes in our judgements that we may both repent of our sinnes and give glory to his justice H ee that cannot keep himselfe from death while he lives will more impossioly restore and revive himselfe to life againe being dead T hy Prince hath honour thy father reverence thy master service thy wife love all these are due to God in a more transcendent manner H ee that sincerely loves God and detests sinne desires dissolution for no other end but to be freed from temptation A s no wise man leaves his he house for some flyes but rather drives them out so no good forsakes his holinesse for temptations N either the gifts of grace nor the seales of grace can free us from assaults we may have force to repell bad suggestions we have not to prevent them D eclare thy grievance by prayer it shall bring downe heavenly graces God knows thy wants aske he hath promised to heare D eath to the godly is good in the cessation of paines better in the renovation of all things best in the immutability of all happinesse O ur talke is of vanity and vanity is with us but if Christ could be kept in our mouthes we should alwayes have him in our hearts U nbeleefe is the bane of constancie and perseverance of constancie in the purpose of our mindes of perseverance in the tenor of our lives B arrennesse is a privation of fruit shame privation of innocency and death a privation of life for these privations men sell themselves L ike horses whether put into perfumed Coaches or noysome carts they will draw so our affections will be doing set them on what worke you will E arth will to earth an earthly desire to an earthly center so man lives till earth be turned into earth so he dyes till earth be turned out of earth their earthly soules into hellish torments such a life is base and brutish Y f there be ignominy in thraldome there must be glory in freedome Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherein Christ hath set you O nce turning from God we continue nought nought till we returne by repentance U nholy Machiavels admired for policie commonly falls under Jehoakims curse to be buried with the buriall of an Asse they live fooles but dye Asses R ighteous men shall live for ever for their reward is with the Lord hee hath a care of them F aith and repentance were two short lessons yet Israel was forty yeares before they could learne them R emember your sinnes to repent of them forget to practise them that God may forget them in judgement and remember us in mercy O ld sinnes must be lookt backe into because the vanitie of youth proves the vexation of age N one can be too yong to amend that is old enough to dye for man is apt to sin before he be able T o give over sinne when we can no longer commit it is no repentance A good Christian will be good and devout like good Daniel though alone S ome trust in horses some in their swords some in their lands some in their wits some their friends and some in their monies but let every good Christian trust in the Lord. Y f we must converse with evill men let it be in
the head T he precepts of Kings are sometimes evill therefore we must only obey them in God but when God commands we may not examine but execute O nly a forme of godlinesse will never remove Gods judgements from a Nation T o weare the Devills livery to be the pentioner of hell at the command of that malignant spirit is a most damnable name and shame H ee that is to day a Papist tomorrow a Protestant next day no man can tell what nor himselfe such a man denies Christ E very man will try to write with two pens hunt two wayes fight with two swords or travell two wayes together is a troublesome folly truth hath but one way no second not another L et truth once flourish and heresie finde no footing then shall justice reigne oppression shall be oppressed the hand of bribery shall be broken the arme of injustice cut off and the mouth of iniquity stopped E very man shall sit under his owne vine we shall feare no breaking in of enemies to invade us nor heare any news or noyses to affright us F or joy we shall sing aloud our Princes shall be wiser and our Judges better instructed and instead of serving themselves and the time will learne to serve the Lord with feare and rejoyce in him T he Lord is a living Lord and a giving God unchangeable his goodnesse most bountifull in his benificence H ee that is the common enemy seeks to devoure all therefore every man cease quarelling one with another and fight with him A ll men are merry but who mournes for God is angry with us and would destroy us did not Jesus stand in the breach for us N ever depend on the favour of God untill our hearts be purged of pride and selfe-love be every thing denyed that hath no relation to Christ D oth all the world acknowledge some God doe some Narions acknowledge too many gods for shame let us acknowledge one God A sall times have their incident troubles so there is one maine day of trouble yet considering Gods promise he will never faile his B ecause we know not the time of our deaths let us learn with St. Paul to dye daily O ne halse houre spent fixedly every day will by Gods grace bring alteration heart and life V igilancie carefulnesse and love are the three marks and helpes of diligence T hat mans life is well bestowed in death when to patience is adde godlinesse A s finer tempers are more sensible of the changes of the weather so the faithfull and familiar with God can discry his judgements S uch is the Worlds desperatenesse and pollicie to vex whom God hath blessed but still he takes them into his tuition and will devout their enemies Y f man say to God in the middest of his distresses Is this thy justice he will answer Oh man Is this thy faith O ur sins by sea and land are so great that it is the only infinite mercy of God that in every place we perish not U nthankfull men are the worse for all Gods favours and the worse they grow towards the end the worse it shall be for them in the end W ee commonly kill our beasts when they are fattest but judgement surpriseth sinners when they are leanest which is the remotest distance from goodnesse E very sin is mighty therefore our repentance must be more hearty which mixt with faith and hope will bring us to heaven R epent in life that thou maiest finde comfort in death for the great Judge cannot erre he knowes our going out and comming in E xtraordinary terror was at the Law-giving but was a burning Image of what shall be at the Law enquiring R oome thinks the Gospels rising must needs be her falling and therefore cannot endure like a sister to communicate with us but like a Tyrant to excommunicate A unwise King destroyes his people but through the wisdome of them which are in authority Cities are inhabited N othing so sovereigne but by being abused by sin may not of a blessing become a curse K nowledge separated from obedience doth but inslames a mans reckoning and helps to a greater measure of condemnation S aint Johns short Sermon in his old age was Little children love one another T hree things let us alwayes commit to God our injuries our losses and our griefes for he is onely able to cure our griefes to restore our losses and rederesse our injuries O ur afflictions shall never end us but God will rather put an end to them our mouthes shall be filled with laughter our tongues with singing T he end of our conversion is to amend our conversation and that word which sounds peace and joy and remission of sin leaves this lesson behinde it Sin no more H ee that is never so poore if a true beleever Peter and Paul and Jesus Christ himselfe are his brethren E xhortations to particular duties of holinesse is alwaies needfull even to those that are most holy for the seeds of vertue are much hindred by naturall corruption R ingt holinesse is true nobility for without goodnesse there can bee no true glory I t is the honour of Gods Saints to be attended by Angels while they live and to be exalted by Augels when they dye G od both can and will deliver his chosen he can at all times seasonable for his own glory H ee that will not be found out of God in his mercy while he he lives shall be sure to be found out by him in his judgement when he is dead T hough all enemies be conquered and vanquished yet the Christian souldier shall be crowned H ee that neglects to please cannot complaine to be neglected A ll that live godly in christ shall suffer persecution thus Paul Christs Aturney pleads our affliction N ever thinke the vertuous and vitious go all noe way or that good and bad speed all alike for it a beast could argue he would abhorre such a tenant D espised and distressed soules that humbly acknowledge God on earth shall be acknowledged and glorified by him in heaven when Atheists shall be throwne downe into endlesse calamity D estruction bates nothing of totall ruine Gods justice will leave nothing for the wicked shall be preyed upon by insatiate judgement till nothing be left O ur ignorance is our curse but that which knowes not Christ is the most miserablest V ice is alwaies an enemy to true knowledge but how shall a man like that food of which he never tasted B lessed is the man that seeks by all means to grow in grace for he shall be sure to win a Crowne of glory L et good and we meet in all our actions for to be wicked is not much worse then to be undisereet for knowledge without vertue makes a mans mitimus to hell E very evill man hath lusts of his own which he is as resolute to maintain as a father to keep his owne children A mans conscience is
like a pulley that keeps reason in the right wheel and cashiers mutinous affections or executes Marshall law upon them S uch as turne grace into wantonnesse deny Christ for he that calls himself Christian and teaches that in Christ is granted liberty of finning denies his Redeemer Y f thou buy honour thou callest it thine indeed thy friend thou calst him thine purchasest a house thou calst it thine but Christ hath bought thee with his blood yet thou deniest to be his O ur inward sincerity is not without externall profession but externall profession may be without inward sincerity V ertue is ever full of proselt enemies darknesse is not more contrary to light nor sicknesse to health nor death to life then vice to goodnesse W hat meanes the worldling in our birth we had but swadling clouts and cradle in our death we shall have but a winding sheet and a coffin E very man is a soole that forgets his owne name that are the sonnes of Adam the son of dust R iches are but for this world yet God is both Lord of this world and of that to come and where the glory of this ends the glory of that begins E very mans death is the punishment of his first birth if faithfull the glory of the second not a dying but a departing life with some sorrow laid off but with much joy said up R achel weeping for her children because they were not and shall not we can we see the Churches teares and not doe our utmost endeavours to comfort her A prayer made in confidence that God will hear us because he hath heard us may obtaine mercy then approach boldly to the Throne of Grace N o shame sorrow or misery should ever put any Christian to any desperate attempt for there is more valour to endure a miserable life then to imbrace a wretched death K eep thy shield of faith and thou shalt victoriously march with the Saints on earth and triumphantly sing with Angels in heaven S uch is the sincerity of Christian Religion that it not only imposeth upon us pure innocencie but also profitable honesty T he feare of God and the love of God are inseparable he doth neither that doth both he omits neither that doth one O fall the medicines administred to us by our spirituall Physitian love is the sweetest bitter pills will downe when they are made up in love T he rules of our faith and life are manifest if we would study enough study them and practise H ow poore soever thy cottage be set thy prayers as a guard without and thy faith as a locke within the sevenfold walls of Babylon cannot bee so strong E very man hath his owne faith yet all men have but one faith by which they must be saved L et thy thoughts examine thy thoughts for thy conscience must not only extend to deeds and words but even to secret thoughts E ndeavour to be thrifty husbands of time and meanes to bee spiritually rich for if man neglect the occasion will neglect him F eare God as Noah Noah beleeves he shall be saved why he above the rest because he beleeved with feare T he inseperable effect of justification is obedience then we follow Christ when we follow his H ee that preserves the truth from the malediction of men preserves himselfe from the malediction of God and he that vindicates the truth from present blasphemy tha truth shall preserve him from everlasting misery A threefold lot belongs to all faithfull men the lot of suffering the lot of happinesse and the lot of salvation N o man will hardly brooke wounds that cannot endure words for the cause of his Saviour David had a great company of Souldiers at his backe yet he slew Goliah alone thus Faith alone conquers the Devill D estruction is alwayes incident to opulent Cities and delightfull places Sodome abounded with all delights and pleasures O ur sinnes greedily heare that the mercies of God endureth for ever but they shall all sensibly heare that the wrath of God endureth for ever U nthankfulnes is the sole witch and sorcerer whose drousie inchantments have made man forget God himselfe B ee not such sinnes rather the image of hell then of heave neither measure the joyes of heaven by our owne corrupt and sensual pleasure on earth L et us appeale from mens lips to their lives he that obeyes not Christ knowes not Christ it is fruitfulnesse in good that setles him in our hearts E vill hearts have corrupt hands for if the hand grope for a bribe as Felix did of Paul there must be an unjust heart A wicked man thinks he may be out of danger of the Law if either he have agreat man to his friend or have not a great man to his enemy S inne with a voice is sinne in action sinne with a cry is a sinne in presumption Y fone act of filthinesse doe so distresse us that we would give all the World for a pardon what torture will the same sin bring being committed againe O ur dayes are evill whether we respect their troubles or that which troubles them our sinnes and not likely in either of them both to amend U ntill knowledge and goodnesse goe together we may be doubtfull for knowledge will fall from us when we fall from goodnesse W oe to those that call evill good woe indeed for refusing the right way for approving the wrong woe for they have erred woe because they will not be converted E rrors are infinite and but one truth God chargeth us to refuse all waies but one but the Devill bids us refuse that one R eason will memory imagination affection and sense by one act of rebellion put all their noble family into a shattered disorder E very corruption is so pleasing to the wicked that they thinke it health it selfe for every heart overruns with sinne is all sinne F orget all sinne in respect of continuance but remember them in respect of repentance I n the last dayes we live on the last dayes we doe not meditate so the last dayes falls upon us whilest our first and last and all our sinnes are found in us L et us be so kinde to our selves as to thinke doomes day is not past there is a day an evening and a morning we shall finde no peace unlesse wee provide for it in the day E ndeavour to run so much the faster as we run for the better prise S o far as holy joy is entred into us so far are we entred into the everlasting Kingdome of Christ T o begin in the spirit and end in the flesh is in Pauls sense folly but to begin with grace and end with wickednesse is malicious impiety O ur troubles are felt without but our peace of conscience is alwayes felt within T he right way to heaven is by the signified will of God revealed in his Word and whatsoever repugneth that is the wrong H appy repentance is sorry
intended mischiefe O ppinionate wisdome is in a manner the sole cause of all folly for it transports a man with an imagination of his owne knowledge that he runs into error with confidence T hey that will walke to Christ shall have Christ walke with them for he is the truth the way and the life H ee that beleeves will keep the Commandements for as the Law sends us to Christ to be saved so Christ sends us backe againe to the Law to learne obedience E very Scribe instructed unto the Kingdome of heaaen brings out of his treasure things new and old the new before the old because the Gospel was promised before the Law was Printed R econciliation and the peace that was made between God and man did not stretch so far as to conclude a peace between God and sin I am a sinner therefore God hath from everlasting rejected me is a desperate conclusion I beleeue in Christ and endeavour to live like a Christian therefore am chosen is a sound inference so far God gives leave to looke into the booke of life G ods informer is conscience a spy in the soule mixing herselfe with all our thoughts and actions H ee that hopes for a new heaven above and does not become a new creature below that mans expectation is in vaine T he highest act of a Christian is to comfort himselfe in Christ he never fell from us we are basely unthankfull if ever we fall from him H ee that knowes God and lives in evill is no better then a devill in the shape of a man or a man in the shape of a devill A s no place can content the fire but the upmost rising towards its owne region so let no knowledge satisfie us but the knowledge of Christ N atural men perceive not the things of Gods Spirit in other knowledge the righteous have part with sinners but in this sinners have no part with the righteous let me be weake in policie so I be wise of salvation D ivine knowledge mounts aloft and findâ—s no rest but in the region of immortality C elsitude of honour is a meer dwarfe to faith that can but command mortalls faith is attended by Angels O ur faith hath need of a good foundation for it is an heavy and weighty building all other vertues lye upon faith U nbeleeving sinners tremble but let such feare to dye as have no hope to dye if we have made our peace with God we shall escape from death N o man can take Christ from thee unlesse thou take thy selfe first from Christ T he Gospell is no weake thing but comes in power for Christ hath a further latitude he came once unto men but he comes still into man E xcept a man be borne he can never see light on earth and except he be twice borne he can never see light in heaven R edemption by Christ hath stated us into a blessednesse never to be forgotten for no soule that Christ hath truly bought can ever perish M ans sinnes have made heavens entrance narrow but Christs sufferings have made it wide A little faith with knowledge is true and saving but great presumption with ignorance is damnable R eligion knows no outward calling or condition for all those that are in Christ are holy beleeving brethren C ertainly if men beleeved in Christ they would not nay could not speak not look upon his workes without great reverence H ee that trusts his salvation on a strange faith erres in darknesse and holds not the way which the light of the Gospell directs him T he Gospell speaks of Christ buying Ye are bought with a price to fell that which is bought is to crosse his proceeding O f all purchases buy Jesus for be thou never so poore Christ will sell himselfe for thy soule T he life of man is pretious in the sight of God but the life of his whole Church is far more pretious H ee that cares not for any mirth but that which must grieve the Holy Ghost must needs procure that peace which is at wars with Christ E very man thinks he loves himselfe better then his enemy but while hee loves sin he loves his enemy better then himselfe L et the servants that are under the yoke count their owne master worthy of all honour that the name of God and his doctine be not blasphemed E very action that gives way to Gods dishonour and heartens others to superstition is a deniall of Christ in some degree of fact F alse Prophets intrude amongst the people but principally amongst the people of God T he Devill is a false Prophet he calls evill good and promiseth bad attempts good events either he conceales the end from the way or the way from the end H earken not to the world for it is a false Prophet it tells you your gold shall make you rich when it rather makes you cursed A n Infidell perswades himselfe there shall be no reckoning day and an Epicure dreames of no future life false for the Lord will take them away in a whirlewind N atures colours will last if not artificiall shall say pride to the beautifull false Art shall make a foole of Nature Time make a foole of Art and Death make a foole of all D runkards prophesie to morrow shall be as to day and much more abundant false awake and howle Oye drunkards for the wine is cut off from your mouths C arnall mindes hope and saie I will be sure to repent false thousands are in hell that promised themselves this evasion neither hath any man a patent of repentance O ur ambitious men flatter themselves saying we will arise out of the dust and sit with Princes false for they shall fall from the throne to the dust V anity and worldly pleasure saies I am a Queen and shall see no mournfulnesse false for the day of lamentation is come N aturall men are moles to spirituall objects but wise and regenerate eyes can pierce the heavens and espy God in all his earthly occurrences T he flesh is a false Prophet every affected sin is a false Prophet to the soul for falshood if it cannot deceive another it will deceive if selfe E very man sayes he is in Gods favour so were the children of Israell till they were tempted by false Prophets and sinned R ighteousnesse is the life of all lives without which our bodies shall rot in the dust and our memories stinke above ground yea our selves perish in the lowest pit M any will be in the Church way the road of profession not for any love they bear to devotion but that the sent of their turpitudes may not bee discovered A ll ungodlinesse robs God of his honour and is either the true worship of a false god or the false worship of the true God or the true worship of the true God with a false heart R hetoricke is the art of speaking well Logicke the art of disputing well Magistracie the art
of governing well but Christianity is the art of living well C an the Naturalist with all his eloquence disswade the covetous worldling from his greedinesse no one ounce of gold weighs downe all his reasons H eavenly things are far from carnall sense and he that will beleeve no more then he sees shall for ever be blinde F ew and evill are our dayes few in number evill in nature not one of them good few and evill below many and evill above misery is our familiar happinesse but a stranger I t is a great comfort in distresse to hope for a deliverer to beleeve is better but to bee sure of it is best of all L et us be sure to repent one day before our death but hereof we cannot be sure unlesse we repent every day E very man repent while be lives that he may rejoyce when he dyes Simeon desired not to dye sooner he desired not to live longer Now letthy servant goe away in peace T here is a double martyrdome a bloody one when Christ is magnified in the roses of his Church by death a bloodlesse one when he is magnified in the lillies of his Church by a holy life O f vanities we soon grow weary and loath them but the joyes of righteousnesse will be as everlasting in our desires as they are in their owne sweetnesse T o turne from sin is Gods speciall grace by giving repentance but to fall from stedfastnesse is through defect of perseverance H ave you righteousnesse seal and deliver it as your act and deed never say you praise God with your words when you despise him by your works E very man decline unrighteousnesse which dissolves peace and then God shall fulfill in our hearts St. Peters wish Grace and peace R espect God in all things doing nothing but as in his presence looking unto him as the directer and discerner of all our actions and thoughts I t is Gods delight in extremity to be a deliverer when Armies besiege his servants then he musters up his servants G ods displeasure for sin is able to turne a Nation upside downe that like Senacherib they become the spoyle of their owne bowells H ee that marvells in this rebellious age how or why we thus fall by the sword let him looke to his sinnes and cease marvelling T here are destructions that creep upon men by degrees but sudden destruction often seizeth upon the wicked O ur God will not favour us because we have studied hard and knowne much but rather the more punish us because we have knowne good and done evill R eligion and Piety is made havocke of and all to atchieve glory that which the Apostles rent their cloaths to put from them let us rend our very skins to pluck to us Act. 14.14 L et every servant of God thinke his crosses are meant for his blessings punishments to them are signes of his favours E ven for those who have fought a good fight a Crowne is laid up bee diligent then in this point and be saved F aith is a Queen repentance her usher and good works the Court that shall follow her so let her come to the King of mercy the presence chamber of Christ Jesus T he ground of hope in the middest of delay is when the deferring of our desires discourageth not our faith O ur affections if they be not shod with patience will be so pricked with crosses that we shall be weary of our journey to heaven R egard not so much what portion thou hast in the punishment of sin as what interest thou hast in the Covenant T he execution of Gods justice doth magnifie his mereies when he punisheth some that he may spare many O nly a forme of godlinesse will never remove Gods judgement from a Nation T o beare meekly with thy persecuters is commendable patience to bee commendable at Gods dishonour is commendable basenesse H ee is a foole that loves sin better then his soule then never seek to please sin that seeks to confound us E very man commonly fears Gods temporall blows more then his eternall yet of both they neglect the antidote and prevention C onsidence in God doth only support us we cannot put too much trust in him not too little in our selves E very affliction prepares us for salvation a meer paradox to the children of this world who run in the cirele of sin and pleasure N ever did pride goe more blustering through the streets then now and the language of her pace is Who made me T he dust of this world makes many a man blinde they did like moles in the earth and there lose the light of heaven E very man seeks for something to rest his minde upon but to make this world the center that and our hopes must faile together for the fire will dispatch them both R iches shuts abundance out of heaven but the grace of God lets in many C hrist rejoyceth in a Christian whensoever a Christian rejoyceth in him the repentant son was not more glad of the father then the father was glad he found the son L et every man labour to preferve what hee hath gotten for the losse of faith is a dangerous ship wrack save your faith and save your soules O ne and the same end is to the sinner without repentance and to the righteous without perseverance S alvation is with more difficulty wrought up then perdition yet grace time and diligence will worke it up in season E very worke hath his owne season only Gods worke requires every season especially the worke of praysing his name T he law was perfect truth but we were weake it could not save us because we could not keep it but on the Evangelicall truth we may repose our soules O ne way to honour is by flattery another to pleasure is by making the flesh mistresse and a way to be rich by usury yet but one way to make a man blessed and that is the way of truth Y f our obedience doe not testifie our faith that Law was not more deadly then the Gospell to inhance our condemnation O ur Souldiers are valiant till they come to fight all Philosophers are excellent till they come to dispute and all good Christians till we come to master our owne lusts V anity in some men curiosity in other men and unconstancie in all men makes many faiths R eligion that bindes the conscience where God hath not bound it brings snares and fetters and takes away due liberty C ommonly too much heat annoyes but too much heat destroyes but Religion of all tempers in our dayes complaines not of heat L ot could be holy among the wicked a Saint amongst sinners yet we are evill amongst the good and sinners amongst Saints O ur growing or fading in grace brings us to heaven or hell Paul turnes an Apostle Judas an apostate S trong bodies without strong grace are strongest to sin thus the strongest is weakest strong
lost O ur good God takes it in a foule scorne to speake and not be heard to be heard and not minded R eligion promiseth no worldly pleasures but contrary they shall whip and scourge you they shall binde and lead you whither you would not D oe as the most doe and fewest will finde fault with you but God chargeth us not to follow a multitude in evill E very mans hand is not an able instrument of mischiefe but whosoever the instrument be the consenter is as deep both in the sin and the penalty R ighteous men shall never be swept away for company yet the unrighteous are often spared for company F ew words to the wicked in the latter day but full of bitternesse depart word of separation ye cursed words of malediction into everlasting fire words of desolation prepared for the Devill and his angell words of exemplification I n many things familiarity breeds contempt but in these things strangenesse and ignorance hath made men prophanely insolent E very man hath his knowledge from nature but the Christian his from grace one is from earth the other from heaven L et no man cast with himselfe how old he may be before he returne from his sinnes lest he reckon without his host S inne is like Stibium it will tarry with no body up it must either here by an humble confession or hereafter by a wretched confusion T here can be no full satisfaction or consolation in the minde of any knowledge but of Ghrist O utward crosses and calamities may take from us our goods of this world but it can never take Christ Jesus from us T he contempt of the truth makes it not worse but thy selfe and the advancing of it makes it not better but thy self H ee that is alwaies for the time nothing for the truth is like a top that goes alwayes round never forwards unlesse it be whipt E very worldling is left-handed he will be doing though hee have no thanks for his paines R eligion derived from Christ preserves unity with Christians he that will not keep the peace of God shall not be kept by the peace of God I t is easie for the greatnesse of authority to beare out the smalnesse of piety and commonly the sins of the mighty are mighty sinnes therefore their destruction is answerable to their presnmption G ods children have three suits of apparrell blacke white and red here we are blacke with mourning red with parse cution and shall be white only glorified H ee that mournes for the cause of his punishment shall mourn but a while but he that mournes for the punishment and not for cause shall mourne for ever T he good man looks into himself not into another and therefore thinks best of another not of himself O bedience it selve would lose a reward by comming short but for perseverance for no vertue can expect eternall blessednes but that which holds out to the end R emember O man how short thy time in and be not weary of thy pains for what cause can be long in that which is so short of it selfe L ooke where the glory of this world ends the glory of heaven begins but riches are here to day and gone to morrow E very service in the end brings wages but the wages of sinne is without end F lattering up others in their sinnes is the very next way to make them our owne T he Word of God sets down the wages of sin and tyes punishment to it as an inseparable effect to the cause H ee that chose us when we were not called and called us when we were nought and hath justified us being sinners will glorifie us being Saints A man may partake of one nature of Christ and be cursed but if of his divine then most blessed N ature created and nature corrupted is the difference between Gods workmanship and ours D eath is fearfull wages when it is paid in the proper coine without the allay of Christs death to qualifie it O ne that will plead Christs cause without a fee or he that will say with Job Though he kill me yet I will trust in him shews the heart of a Saint R esolve with Hester If I perish I perish for nothing can be lost that wee piously trust God withall F aith goes along with Christ from his cradle to his crosse it sees him doing good and suffering ill R ecrant souldiers first forsake their courage and the last thing that forsakes them is their heels O ur backwardnesse requires continuall provocation to be good is a thing hardly gotten quickly forgotten M ans habitation pleaseth him his gold bewitcheth him a womans beauty tempteth him and yet all is but earth T ruth is never to be numbred by the pole for it is not numbers but weight that should carry it H e that mouths a Pater noster while his heart is in his coffer as if he would at once serve God and mammon in vaine thinks himselfe godly E arth will to earth an earthly desire to an earthly center so man lives till earth bee turned into earth so he dyes till earth be turned out of earth their earthly soule into hellish torments such a life is base and brutish C omplaine not though other men blanch thee so long as thou hast fellowship with Jesus Christ E very man be contented with his owne measure of good things vouchsafed him for God will not be prescribed N one but the King of Kings hath right to the stile Imperiall I will or I will not without limitation because his will and power are matches only T o obey well is as great as to governe well and more mens duties they that thinke otherwise know not the Christians part which is to suffer E nter not into a restlesse course of life for honour for a Princes breath blowes is up and the Peoples breath blowes it away R eady for honour ready for disgrace for poverty for riches for joy or sorrow for life or death for all such a Christian will hold out to the latter end O ur grace is Gods glory the more we are amended the more he is commended thus the truth appeares greater in us though it cannot bee made greater by us P erseverance is the queen of all vertues and the master of all temptations commands to sight against none but those that persevere in goodnesse E vill men may shew the good they have not but good men cannot hide the good they have N othing but grace can satisfie the soule of man give him grace and then be goes away springing like Joseph and singing like David T here cannot be a greater argument of a foule soule then the deriding of religious actions O ther sins have but three enemies to deale withall but a backslider hath a fourth a hard heart Y f we receive not the blessed Gospell with faith and feare Sodome and Gomerah never sinned as we sin nor were never so plagued as
we shall bee O pinion of the minde are like diseases of the body all alike infinite V iolent passions makes men bandy controversies who fight with their Pens like Souldiers with their Pikes wounding the peace of the Church R eligion is more practicall then theoriticall rather an occupation then a meer profession dwelling like an Artizan wit at singers end O ne man is an Atheist and beleeves no God another is an I dolater and worships many one will be of a new Religion another of none no matter to the Devill they are both travelling towards his kingdome Roome never means us so sudden a storm as when she makes faire weather and beares us in hand all is peace D ogs are fawning but sicophantising Iesuits are worse for their tongues doe more harme then their teeth E very man that will not adhere to the God of truth shall be turned over to the faither of lies R esist the Devill and he will flye from thee give to God obedience to thy Prince allegiance to superiours reverence to the weak assistance to the Devill and sin resistance O ur day is broken why day we sleep in sin when the Sunne is up good husbands thinke of rising the slumber of the body and the soul is not much unlike R epent therefore in life that thou maiest finde comfort in death that thou maiest be acquitted at the day of judgement of Jesus Christ O ur entrance into this world is full of weaknesse our proceeding full of wickednesse our departure full of wretchednesse P ray that you may leave the earth when you know the way perfectly to heaven desire to live till you are inspired by grace desire to dye when you are assured of glory E very man with Paul learne to dye daily for no man knows when he shall dye therefore be evermore armed with expectation N ever expect peace without Christ whosoever dyes in peace dyes in Christ the Prince of peace O ur breath is in our bodies the life of our soules is in heaven our bodies move upon earth let our heart dwell in heaven R ighteousnesse must dwell in those that looke to dwell in heaven where righteousnesse dwelleth for Christ is the Lord of righteousnesse D eath takes the clocke of our life asunder but then the omnipotent Maker takes it into his owne hand and sets it together againe at the Resurrection E nquire not what heaven is too curiously lest thou have a snib as Manoah had for asking the Angels name it is secret and wonderfull R emember Gods mercies and blessings to us in all times of this pilgrimage and he will hear us when we pray with the penitent theefe Lordremember us in thy Kingdome Silence STand right in your Files Stand right in your Rankes To the right hand As you were To the left hand As you were To the right hand about As you were To the left hand about As you were Rankes to the right hand double As you were Rankes to the left hand double As you were Files to the right hand double As you were Files to the left hand double As you were Halfe Files to the right hand double your Front As you were Halfe Files to the left hand double your Front You may doe the same by bringers up or leave it our To the right hand Countermarch To the left hand Countermarch Files to the right or left or to the Center Close to your order or close order Rankes close forward to your order or close order To the right hand wheel To the left hand wheel To the right or left hand wheel about Rankes open backward to your order open order or double distance Files to the right or left or from the Center open to your order or open order In distances observe if you open from the right to the left that the left hand man next to the right hand man is to take his distance from the said right hand man first and so every man on the left hand successively one alter another be in any of the distances of close order order open order or double distance If in Ranks the first standing the second opens backwards to either of the distances above said and not forwards in closing of Ranks it is to be done forwards and not backwards all moving together saving the first Ranks In facings you are to be sure to keepe your left foot on the groundâ—s in doublings if you come up to the right turne off to the left and so alway to the contrary hand In wheelings if you close to the left then wheel to the right or if you close to the right wheel to the left or you may wheel upon the Center According to my intended purpose I shall adde to the exercise of the Pike and Musket in the briefest manner being only what shall belong to present service and first for the Pike in all standing postures of the Pike keep your left foot fast fixt upon the ground in all marching postures move with the left foot advancing forward 1 Advance your Pikes 2 Order your Pikes 3 Shoulder your Pikes 4 Port your Pikes 5 Advance your Pikes 6 Shoulder your Pikes 7 Traile your Pikes 8 Cheeke your Pikes 9 Charge your Pikes 10 Shoulder your Pikes 11 Charge to the Front Reare right or left 12 Shoulder your Pikes 13 Advance your Pikes 14 Or order your Pikes 15 Charge to the horse and draw your sword any of the foure wayes For the Musket standing or marching First your Musket not being charged without a Rest supposing alwayes your left hand to be your Rest 1 Slip your Muskes 2 Poyse your Muskes 3 Bring her to your Rest 4 Open your Pan. 5 Clear your Pan. 6 Prime your Pan. 7 Shut your Pan. 8 Cast off 9 Blow cast about and 10 Charge 11 Draw out your scourer 12 Shorten your scourer 13 Put in your bullet 14 Ram your scourer 15 Draw out your scourer 16 Shorten your scourer 17 Put up your scourer 18 Recover 19 Poyse 20 Shoulder 21 Slope 22 Slip. 23 Poyse 24 Bring to your Rest 25 Draw forth your Match 26 Blow 27 Cock 28 Try 29 Guard your Pan. 30 Blow 31 Open. 32 Present 33 Give fire 34 Returne your match 35 Clear your pan and so charge again as is taught All these in service are reduced into these three words Make ready With these two added either Shoulder your Muskets Present Or Give fire Order your Muskets T he postures of arming and disarming according to my intention of brevity is needlesse to be here inserted they having been sufficiently written of by your Trained Band teachers I shall but only present you further with what firings are necessary for our present service out of a single Company or Regiment wishing heartily all noble Captaines and their officers would conforme themselves to these brief rules using no other words of Command then what are here used Y our single Company being drawne up Regiment wise at three foot distance being your order and your Pikes all shouldered the manner of firing to the Front is first let the two first Ranks making ready advance 8 or 10 paces from the Body the rest of the Ranks marching to the front of Pikes which two Ranks having presented and fired one after another let them march off to the right and left hand the next two ranks doing the same with the rest successively as long as you please when you draw near to your Enemy or by way of supposition charge over your Pikes three ranks deep and the rest ported following the charge T o fire from the reare first command your Body to advance their Pikes then face them about to the right or left and then shoulder your Pikes againe moving your Body command the two last Ranks to make ready being ready command the last Ranke to the Rear present who is to turn to the right hand and give fire and so turning up to the right and left advanceth into Front placing themselves before their Leaders the rest of the Ranks doing the same successively one after another T o fire from your right and left stanks command the right and left hand file to make ready which done marching your Body command them to present to the right and left and so give fire which being done let the files stand and charge their Muskets again by which time the two next files wil have performed the like who are also in like manner to stand facing toward their Commander and the first file is immediately to march up to the second the next files having done the like are to stand the first and second file advancing up to them and so of all the rest successively making up your Body again with all speed that may be T here is sometimes another firing used standing whereby an Enemy may receive suddenly a very hot charge when you are retreating command your Body to face about to the right or left and then let them all make ready which done standing let the first Ranke fire and fall off into the Reare and so the rest of them in like maner successively one after another your Pikes retreating back as your body loseth ground Y ou are to use your endeavour to bring your souldiers to know the severall notes of a Drum and what he is to performe upon the hearing of them your Pikemen being to be shouldered upon the beat of a march and advanced upon the beat of a troop This thing perfected will be sufficient for our present service to which God give 〈◊〉 FINIS