or store-howses men keepe all manner thinges to serue their purposes so God keepeth in store weapōs of his wrath to reuenge him self vpon the wicked for the iniury and violence done to his Church Treasure that by some occasion hath bene long and closely hid It is a rare matter to find it which sheweth how few there be that vnderstand and know of the ritches of the kingdome of God And as the man that findeth the treasure can not iustly enioy the same except at his great charge he first straine him selfe to purchase the soile So heauenly riches cannot bee had but of them which if neede so require can be content to forgoe all their worldly wealth for it As great and ritch treasure is many times hid in an homely earthen vessell So it pleaseth God to put the precious knowledge of him selfe and his truth into pore weake and fraile men Vapour AS vapours appeare for a little while and afterward vanisheth quite out of sight So the life of man is quickly vanished and gone Vessell A vessell howe profitable soeuer it hath beene to the owner and how necessary for his turn yet when it is broken it is throwne awaye and regarded no longer which is a plaine image and an expresse forme of a man forsaken of those whose friend he hath beene so long as he was able to stand them in steede As in a great howse there be many vesselles of sundry sortes to diuers vses not only of gold and siluer but also of wood and earth some for honour some for dishonour so in the outward society of the Church there bee men of all sortes appointed for diuers endes wherefore we are diligently to looke about vs that we may bee vesselles apt and meete for the Lorde being prepared for euery good worke A vessell the weaker it is the more it is to be fauored and spared if we will haue it continue so a woman because of her infirmityes is much to be borne withall Vine AS a vine when the fences thereof are broken lieth open to the waste and is spoyled of euery beast of the feelde so the people and church of God when for their sinnes God seemeth for a time to withdraw his protection and defence is subiect to the iniuries violence of all sorts of the wicked A vine planted which neither for choise of good groūd neither for any other thing which the hand of the husbandman might do to it can iustly complaine of any want and yet deceiueth the husbandmans expectation and maketh him to loose both paine and cost expresse the vnkindnesse of people oft times who woulde be couuted for the people of God and whome God hath diligently called to the knowledge of himselfe by the preaching of the worde and yet proceede in impiety and vngodlines Of the shredings of the vine commeth no profit neither can they serue for any other vse but for y e fire so those whom God cutteth casteth of from his church can serue for none other end but for the hell fire A Vine representeth to vs Christe the braunches representeth Christians As branches can not bring foorth fruite except they abide in the Vine so Christians cannot bring foorth fruits of righteousnesse except they abide in Christ. The husbandman or dresser of the Vine representeth to vs God the father For as the vine-dresser cutteth of euerye braunche that bringeth not foorth fruite and letteth it wither and maketh a fire of it so God doth cut of fruitlesse Christians and throwe them into hel fire And as the vine-dresser doth purge the fruitfull braunches that they may bring foorth more fruite so God by diuers meanes doth purify and clense his children that they may be the more fruitfull Virgin CHriste by the parable of the fiue wise and of the fiue foolish Virgins teacheth vs how profitable and good it is for vs if we watch and bee prepared against his comming againe in glory And again how dangerous it is if we be a sleepe and vnprepared at his comming Viniger VIniger is as bad and hurtfull to the Teeth as smoake is to the eyes and yet more hurtfull then eyther of both is a slouthfull seruant to him y t sendeth or setteth him about any busines Viper AS Vipers broode destroyeth them that breede them So generally the children of them that murthered the prophetes and shewed cruelty to the saints of God fulfill the measure of their fathers and are vnmercifully bent against al those that seeke their life and saluation Wages WHen men receiue the wages which they earne then let them take heede least they earne at Gods hand by sinning for the wages of sinne is death Way AS oft as wee walke in the high wayes and common pathes we shoulde call to God to direct vs in his ways and to guid vs in his paths for the way of the wicked is as daungerous to walk in as an exceeding slipperye way to them that walk in the dark Yet it is very broade and well beaten meruailous many tread it though it lead to destruction As oft as we walke to a place whether leadeth no more wayes but one we shold remember that Christ is the onely way to heauen and that no man can come to the Father but by him VVall. A Wall when it beginneth to bowe or is shaken will shortly fall euen so ruinous is the seate of the wicked howsoeuer it seemeth to be A whited or painted Wall the brauery whereof serueth for no profite but for a meere shewe seteth foorth the profite that commeth to the common wealth by those iudges which sitting in place of Iustice doe wrong to men contrary to the lawes VVaights TO buy by an heauier waight to sell by a lighter is abhominable in the eyes and sight of God VVaste AS soile that hath lyen long waste by good husbandrye is rid and often broughte to flowrish with corne or grasse so the Churche of God after long persecution Is by the power and goodnesse of God brought againe to a flourishing estate Warre CIuill dessension and warre is commonly by Gods iust iudgement sent into those landes for their sinnes which he wil afterward destroy and bring to desolation in short time The roote and welspring of all contentions warres grow from our corrupt lusts and affections that fight and striue in our members Upon stubborn trāsgressors of Gods law God will sende a sword to auenge the quarell of his couenaunt And when they flye into their City he will send pestilence among them and they shall bee deliuered into the hande of their enimy In warre peace is to be offered and to bee perfourmed to them which peaceably yeelde themselues and are content to become Tributaries If we be of great skill in warlike affayres we are to blesse God who teacheth our handes to fight and our
if they be compared with Christe seeing as they are not worthy so much as to vnbuckle his shoes Sicknesse WHen we are grieuouslie sicke we are to call to minde the greatnesse of our sinnes For if there be nothing sound in our fleshe it is because of Gods anger And when there is no rest in our bones it is because of our sinnes Yet we are with this to comfort our selues that it is Gods louing chastisement to the ende that we should not be damned with the worlde Therefore though sinne be the cause of our affliction and sicknesse and though we be brought euen vnto deathes doore yet let vs with true and vnfained repentaunce crye vnto the Lorde he will heale vs and deliuer vs from our griefes And let vs looke about that our vnreuerent abusing of the holy misteries of Christes body and bloud be not a cause that many be sicke and many dye amongest vs. Siluer AS pure as Siluer is beeing seuen tymes tryed and fined so pure is the worde of GOD. With such labour and diligence as we would seeke for Siluer and search for treasure with the like we shoulde studye for the knowledge of God in his Worde For the wisedome therein learned is more worth then Siluer more gainefull then Gold more precious then pearles and without all comparison to be preferred before any thing which we can desire He that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer and he that loueth ritches shall be without the fruit thereof Though wicked couetous men do heape siluer togeather as dust and gold as the mier of the streats yet the Lord shall spoyle thē Further the sight of siluer and golde and such like as passing throgh the fier consume not shold admonish vs to endeuour that our workes maye be such as maye abyde the touch-stone of the Word and the fier of Gods examination Moreouer it was neither siluer nor golde neither anye other earthly thing how precious soeuer it was that could redeeme vs but onely the bloud of the immaculate and vnspotted lambe Iesus Christ. Schoole-maister AS a Schoolemaister serueth not for his scholler continuallye but till such time as the scholler may grow to some good abilitie to goe forward at his booke by his owne study So the Lorde feareth his people with his lawe not alwayes but till such time as they haue sufficiently learned to know them selues and therefore to flie from them selues to Christ Iesu who freeth them from the cursse and condemnation of the law Sleepe AS often as we rise from sleepe hauing our weary limmes refreshed and as it were reuiued so that we feele our selues in better case and abilitie to do anye maner thing then before so often we should remember that death vnto the godly is but a resting of their weary bodyes and bones till they rise againe exceedingly bettered by immortalitie and glory and therefore termed by the name of sleepe But loue not sleepe least thou come to pouerty Open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with bread Sleepe is sweete to him that trauayleth and taketh paines whether he eat little or much Silence SIlence in open places is to be obserued of women as a token of their dutifull subiection where vnder God hath put them Men also ought to be swift to heare and slow to speake for in much speaking sinne cannot be wanting Smoake AS Smoake vanisheth and commeth to nothing so the wicked and vngodly perish at the presence of God As smoake vanisheth and passeth away so heauen and earth and all that in them is shal vanish and passe away Sparrow IN time of persecution when we cannot be suffered to frequent the assemblies of those which truly serue the Lord. The state of the poore sparrow or swallow which are there suffered to build their nestes and haue their young seeme to vs more happy then our owne so great a desire haue we if we be godly to be with them among whō or at whose meeting Christ hath bound himselfe by his promise to be present The sale of sparrowes and such other small birdes in markets or other places shoulde bring to minde that seeing these fell not nor were caught without the prouidence of God it can not be but that he whose prouidence extendeth and stretcheth to such smal thinges should also haue a speciall care regarde and eye to those that are his Speaking AS it were a madnes or at the least a great folly for one man in communication with an other to speake in a tongue which the other vnderstandeth not so is it much more for a man to speake to a multitude or a whole congregation in that sort or order And where God graunteth not to people to haue his word so spoken and preached vnto them that they may vnderstand it is a manifest token of his anger and wrath against them for their vnbeliefe Spottes AS spottes deface the things they light on which ought to be cleane so false prophets and false brethren defile and staine the societye and felowship of Christians Snaile AS a Snaile melteth and consumeth to slime and earth so shal God consume the wicked and bring them to naught Snares WHen we see diuers and sundry snares and engines set for beastes vermine and foules and we see those that haue escaped diuers in the ende to be trapped in one or other then are we to remember that though some wicked doe at times seeme to escape the heauie iudgements of God yet in the end they shall be snarled Sodome WHen we here read or by any means remember the heauy fearefull and terrible iudgements of God vpon Sodome and Gomorrha and the places adioyning which God destroyed with fier and brimstone from heauen Then are we to looke about and to consider what and how much more intollerable estate and condition remayneth for vs if we continue contemptuous refusing and misusing the messengers of God now sent to vs. Sunne WHen we see the sunne shine in his full brightnesse and beauty then we are to remember that that light is but for a season But that God which is for euer and euer is the euerlasting light of his Church But in the meane season the constant course of the Sunne accordinge to the appointmente of God in the beginning teacheth vs our obedience to our creator That the Sunne staide his course in the dayes of Ioshua that it returned backwarde in the dayes of Ezechias and that it withdrewe his lighte at noone daies in the death and passion of our Lord and sauiour sheweth the glory and omnipotency of God who canne whensoeuer it pleaseth him chaunge the whole course of nature and make it serue whatsoeuer turn pleaseth him Souldier A Souldier taketh wages of them for whome he fighteth and goeth on warfare Therefore a minister of the gospell may lawfullye
for y t theâ— haue light to direct them by so they that direcâ— theÌ„ selues in their calling by the light of y e worâ— goe aright and vpright because God doth giue them Therefore it is sometimes vsed for knowâ—ledge gotten by reading and hearing the worâ— preached Thirdly the day of the Lorde shall noâ— come soudenly and vnlooked for vppon the chilâ—dren of light stealing vppon them as it were theefe in y e night for y t they be endued with godâ—ly knowledge and therefore liue in continuaâ— expectation of his comming and watch lookinâ— for it Lastly we are to exhort one another whilâ— it is called to daye and also to obey them 〈◊〉 whome God doth speake to day both because 〈◊〉 knowe not whether hee will speake to vs any more and also least we be excluded out of his 〈◊〉 as our Fathers were Darknesse THe Darknesse of dongeons in prisons where prisoners are voide and destitute of all comfort doth shadowe vnto vs the terriblenesse and fearfulnesse of Hell The workes of darknesse are so called either of ignoraunce of the doer which the Darknesse of the minde causeth or because they are commonly done in the night or closely out of sight or else because the dooers of them dare not and loue not to come to try their doings by the light of the Word or else because the rulers of the Darknesse of this worlde worke them in the reprobate Darknesse should make vs remember what we somtime were and what we be now called vnto and how we should therefore walke and lead our liues leaste wee declare our selues to be vnfaithfull and shewe that wee loue Darknesse better then light which is flat damnation Dawbers AS Dawbers that dawbe Walles with Morter which was neuer tempered cannot make those walles continue for that the morter crumbleth away So false and lying Prophetes that speake in the name of the Lord that which he neuer commaunded them can not make their wordes true or to come to passe as they haue promised Death THe death of all men doth admonish vs of the trueth and constancie of gods worde and how certayne that is which he once hath vttered The Death of the godly which yeelde their soules to god ioyfully shoulde make vs consider y t though death be the last enimy that shall be destroyed that is to say abolished yet he is already swallowed vp by our Sauiour Christe in victory and his sting taken away and so after a sort for euer destroyed because his power of hurting and harming Gods people is taken from him When righteous and mercifull men dye and are taken of the earth It is time for vs to looke for euilles which God will sende vppon vs for our sinnes from the sight and greefe of which God hath taken them away By this that all men dye wee are taught that all men are sinners When we see howe harde a thing it is for a man bee hee neuer so good or so welbeloued to finde another man to suffer Death for him We are to consider the vnmeasurablenesse of the loue of Christe who died for vs not onely when we were moste sinfull wretches but also moste spitefull enemies to him Further death shoulde teache vs to dye to sinne As the bandes of matrimony are set free by the Death of one of the married couple So are we by Christe made deade to the Law and freeed from the yoke seruitude and bondage of it When wee see God plague vs with the sicknesse and Death of greate numbers Then are we to enter into our selues diligently to spie the cause thereof And especially to looke whether our grosse contempt of the Worde and vnreuerent abusing of the sacrament haue not procured the same Deade men can doe nothing that liuing men should doe So when we are deade in sinne wee coulde doe none of those thinges which declare and shewe foorth our life in Christe As great a myracle therefore as it is for deade men to bee raised againe So is the chaunge that Christe hath made in those that be his Christe by dying not onely ouercame death but also him that had Lordshippe ouer Death that is the Diuell and that to this ende that Death now shoulde be no more fearefull and terrible to vs. Defence ALl outwarde means of Defence when men passing by God put their confidence in them are but vaine As Siluer Golde Horses Charriots high Towres strong Walles victualles â—trong men valiant captayns honorable persons â—age graue couneellers c. Put not therefore â—our trust in princes nor in y e sonnes of men for â—n theÌ„ ther is no help But know y t he is accursed that maketh flesh his arme Therefore though some trust in Chariots and others in Horses yet the people of God aduaunce their standerdes in the name of the Lorde And when their mighty enemies are brought downe and fallen they rise and stande vpright Dewe AS the morning Dewe soone after the sonne rising vanisheth away So the strength glory prosperity and pride of the Idolaters is by God soone brought to naught Debters IF we when we haue poore and needy debters pitying their pouerty do forgiue their debtes and then thinke that by good right we may challenge loue and the more loue where we haue moste forgiuen then are wee to thinke howe much and how deepely we are bounde to loue Christ by whom so manye and so great thinges are forgiuen vs. Dearth DEarth is procured to countries and nations by their great and grieuous offences especially by Idolatry whereof we haue example in the dayes of king Achab next by periury as appeared in the dayes of King Dauid three and ready to kicke against their keepers so is it with very manye men the more temporall blessinges and worldly commodities God heapeth vppon them the more they kicke againste him and will be the lesse ruled by his Ministers and Word Father THe naturall pietie and compassion that Fathers and mothers haue towardes their infants doth teach vs how much greater the compassion of our heauenly Father is towardes vs his children And if our Parents are ready to giue their infantes good thinges when they begge or craue then much rather we shall be denyed nothing if we in faith do begge and craue of God And if Parents be carefull according to their abilitie to prouide thinges needfull for their children how can we want any thing at the handes of our GOD which he knoweth to be good and needfull for vs Also Christe hath therefore in praying taught vs to to call him father that we might be admonished to come with such reuerence as Children owe vnto their Fathers that we come not in confidence of our selues or anye thing in vs but in confidence of his mediation by whom in whom we are made the
abroad their filth But God ruleth the raging of the sea and stilleth the waues thereof Whereby wee vnderstande his great power and might and that there is none in ability like him Sedition FEare the Lord and the king and meddle not with them that are seditious for theire destruction shall rise sodainly and who knoweth the ruine of them Sepulchres SEpulchres and Tombs which are costly builte and richly adorned and haue nothing within them but a stinking Carkas and rotten boanes doe aptly represent the notable goodly outward shewes which hipocrites make their hearts being full of all wickednesse and corruption Seedes AS the seed once sowed wheresoeuer it pleaseth God to grant his blessing vnto it whither the sower sleepe or wake or whatsoeuer hee doeth and howsoeuer hee is occupied groweth encreaseth till it come to maturity and ripenes so y e worde by the minister of God being scattered wher God worketh withal by his holy spirit there it bringeth a greate meruailous an vnlooked for encrease As a number of things shold yeerely decay come to naught except seedes of them were saued whereof they are by sowing renued so the people that beare Gods name vppon earth shoulde in the day of visitation of their sinnes be cleane and vtterly destroied as Sodom and Gomorah but that God spareth some remnant to be as it were a seed for the encreasing of his Church and people againe Seedes y t are sowed except they corrupt grow not again so our bodies except they cōsume rise not again And as the same seede in substance that is sown springeth again yet altered in forme and fashion euen so our bodies shall rise againe the same in substance but meruellously altered in qualities so our bodies except they consume rise not againe yet altered in form fashion euen so our bodies shall rise again the same in substance but meruellously altered in quality Such as the seede is such is the life of y e which proceedeth from it As therfore of mortall corrupt seed men are first borne to this mortall and corruptible life so must wee of the immortall incorruptible seede of the word be borne againe to a life immortall and incorruptible if we will liue euer Serpent THe sight of a serpent shoulde bring to minde the subtilty malice of the diuell whereby he deceiued and seduced oure first father Adam and induced him to transgression and disobedience and also it should make vs the more heedful and carefull to espy his crafts to withstand his malice seeing that we are eazlier nowe to bee ouerthrowne by reason of our corruption then Adam was afore his fall We also that are ministers shoulde also thereby learne to be wise considering the manifolde daungers which are incident to our calling Seruaunts THe diligence of our man-seruants and maide seruaunts in attending vppon vs and doing their duties vpon hope of finding help friendship at our handes is a good lesson as well to teach vs howe diligently we ought to be in pleasing God and also how well content we shoulde be to tarry his leasure for those graces mercies which we look for at his hand A wise seruant is a great pleasure to his Lord master but a lewd seruant always prouoketh him whome he serueth to anger A discreet seruant is better then a lewd sonne shal deuide the heritage amongst y e brethren As impossible as it is at one and the same time for one man to serue two diuers sundrye masters for y t he cannot be diligēt imploy him self about vpon the busines of the one but hee must needs neglect the others affairs so impossible is it for man to addict him self to God ritches When we see our seruants at our beck and commandement and diligent to do those things which we appoint them then we should remēber by how better right equity wee all creatures shoulde redilye obey the voice of God our creator and of Christ our redeemer If thy calling be to be a seruant care not but if thou maist bee free vse it rather For he that is called in the Lorde to bee a Seruant is the Lordes Free-man But learne that the propertye of a good Seruaunt is to giue all reuerence to his master obeying him in all thinges and that in singlenesse of heart and in the feare of the Lorde endeuouring alwayes to please him yea though he be froward executing the trust that is committed vnto him aswell in his masters absence as in his presence If a liberall good and bountifull master to his seruauntes can not but bee very angry and much offended if any of them deale cruelly with their fellows how much more iustly shall God withdrawe his mercy from them that deale vnmercifully with them that liue amongst them If men be bountifull vnto such seruants whose faithfulnesse diligence they haue good trial of as wel in their absence as presence on y e contrary side angry seuere sharp to them which deceiue their expectation do not answere the trust which is reposed in them how much more iustly shall God put the like difference in rewarding or punishing the good endeuours or negligence of them to whome he hath committed seruices of trust in his people and Churche As men haue iust cause with more sharpnesse and greater seuerity to punish those seruauntes to whome they haue shewed theire minde and will and yet their businesse is neglected then others who therefore doe it not because they knowe it not So GOD to whome soeuer hee hath reuealed moste and vppon whome he hath bestowed moste greatest giftes of knowledge them if notwithstanding they bee negligent in vsing their gifts to the profite of Gods Church will he most seuerely and sharply aboue all other punish Seruauntes be they neuer so diligent in executing that which is committed vnto them yet cannot iustly vaunt themselues that they haue done any more then bounden duety So we then when wee haue trauailed as much as for vs is possible yet are to confesse our selues vnprofitable seruauntes It is an olde saying Seruice is no heritage Therefore when we see seruaunts when they haue serued a time chaunge their masters and are eyther masterlesse or serue others then let vs remember that so vnstable and vncertaine is our condition in the Churche of GOD except wee haue the spirite of freedome namely the spirite of adoption of children and so by Christe and in Christe be truely made free Men are their seruauntes to whose commaundementes they yeelde all obedience Therefore if wee obey sinne wee are the seruauntes of sinne and our wages is death But if we obey God then are wee the seruauntes of obedience to righteousnesse and our ende is euerlasting life For the moste part some priuate respect of commodity and the seruice
gayning or getting to the slouthfull It is impossible that Corne shoulde growe or prosper and come to good among the bushes of thornes so likewise is it that the seede of the word shoulde become the seede of new-byrth to him that continueth full of worldly cares and is snared with the deceitfulnesse of ritches Throanes WHensoeuer wee see throanes or Chayres of state wherein it is not lawfull for any but princes and great estates to sit then are we admonished to remember the greate maiestye and glory whereunto Christ will aduance those that follow him Temples TEmples Churches Chappelles which places we therefore esteem holy because they are dedicated to the seruice of GOD and holy exercises of religion shoulde bring to minde that we are also the temples of God and therfore ought also to be holy Tooth AS the stump of a tooth is vnprofitable to eate withall So they in whome there is no fayth nor credite to be reposed are friendes vnfit vnprofitable for a man in the day of trouble Toppe THe house top should put vs in minde howe much better it is for a man to bee quietlye matched though he dwel in neuer so small a corner rather then haue neuer so pleasante and roomthy an house with a contentious brawling brabbling wife Tongues THe gift of speaking with strange tongs thogh it be very commendable and excellent yet if it be not vsed to the common benefite profit of those among whom we liue It maketh a man no better then a peece of sounding brasse or a tinckling cimbal They that speake to other in a tong that the other vnderstand not are as straungers to them to whom they speak so are they y t speake lattin to the vnlerned multitude at church Men cannot iudge them to bee well in theire wittes whom they hear talk and prate to them in a tong which they vnderstād not Further when things are so vttered in the church that they can not be vnderstood of the hearers it is a plain and manifest token of Gods anger against them for theire vnbeleefe Trauaile ONe great trauaile that God hath giuen vnto men to humble them thereby is to learn and gather wisedom by the diligent and aduised consideration and viewe of all thinges vnder the sunne Trees WHen we see trees digged vp by the rootes not to the end to destroy them but to plant them in another place where they maye growe better more conueniently then are wee to remember that the grieuous troubles of the righteous sent to them from God are of the like sort for their better planting in another place A tree pleasantly planted by the water side prospering bringing forth fruit in greate plenty doth admonish vs how we which pretēd to be graffed in Christ Iesus shold aboūd be replenished with all good works The strength of a Cedre tree or of a great Oke sodainly rent or pulled vp by the rootes and the grene flourishing of a bay tree sodainly blasted and withered away doe represent vnto vs the strength and prosperitye of the wicked how momentany they be and how sodainlye they perish A tree the fruit whereof is good for preseruation of life and health therfore of many much sought for should bring to minde howe wholsome a good tongue is and carefully Wisdome is to bee sought after Trees in Winter which for that they are naked and voide both of leaues of fruit do seeme for the time little to differ from dead starued trees and yet haue secretely hid in them theire iuice which maketh them spring again and as it were reuiue again in summer doe represent vnto vs the state of the Church of God which though in bitter persecution seemeth to be as it were quenched extinguished Yet when God giueth some peace rest flourisheth and springeth again When we see a little twig spring out of an old seare stocke such as we would haue thought it impossible for any thing to grow on it then are we to remember in what decay the stock of Dauid was when Christ was borne The Church of God after persecution shal like a fruitefull Tree take roote againe flourish and growe till the worlde bee filled with the fruite thereof When we see some trees higher fayrer greater and stronger then others then are we to remember that euen so is the greate power of those Nations which God aboue other hath exalted As trees are knowne to be good or bad by their fruite so men are discerned by their doing And as men are wōt to hew down y e trees y t either are vnfruitfull or else bring foorth bad fruit make firewood of thē so God in his good time will root out of his church al wicked men and throw them into eternall fier When trees blossome and shoot foorth buddes we are assured that sommer draweth neare So when we heare of warres rumours of warres pestilence famine and earth-quakes then are we to know that the end of the world draweth neare Troubles GReat are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord riddeth them out of them all and in the meane space comforteth them in the middest of their troubles that they may be able to becomme instrumentes of comfort to others and able to cheare others in their affliction by that comfort which they them selues receiued of god Trumpet WHen we heare the trumpet sound out aloud to giue souldiers and seruitors warning to prepare and put them selues in a readinesse for that which they are appoynted for Then are ministers to remember howe much they shoulde strayne their voyces and how loude they shoulde cry both to Princes and people to shewe them the daungers that are iminent and at hande for their sinnes As the Trumpeter that is set to watch for the comming of his enemies is guilty of the bloud and death of his Citizens and people if through his negligence and for want of warning by his trumpet the enimy steale vppon them and make slaughter and hauock of them at vnawares so the ministers of the word also if the people without continuall admonition and calling vpon to repent do perish in their sinnes If the trumpet should giue an vncertaine sounde it should not profite for so the souldier shoulde not be warned to prouide for the battell euen so the tongues which the people vnderstande not are not profitable to be spoken withal in the church And by the sounde of the Trumpete wee are warned to hearken after and to looke for the sound of the last trump at the noyse of the which the dead shall rise incorruptible and we shall be chaunged Treasure THe gathering of treasur◠by deceitfull tung and speeche is a vanity euen so delighting men and as commonly exercised of men that seek their own destruction as the tossing of a tennice bal. As in treasure howses