in generall euery one of vs hath a court in his owne conscience wherinto all our thoughts words and actions must be presently summoned and inquisition must bee strictly made what error is found in himselfe and finding himselfe guiltie of any negligence in performing his dutie to God commaunded or pronenes to offende God in things forbidden he must as a Iudge farre from partialitie giue sentence against himselfe and commit the euils done to true and vnfained repentance bind himselfe by the law of obedience not to sinne agayne Which were it performed of al men in particular there were no neede of the Magistrates sword to compell the same in generall But sith our corrupt inclinations doe fight daily against this godly course the Magistrate who beareth not the sword for nought must now if euer he did shew himselfe zealous in the Lords cause for the good of al the land in general Which as it seemeth much missed with negligence of euery mans particular dutie to God and his Soueraigne whereby God is not honoured of vs as he ought nor the lawes of the land obeyed as they should be there must be a generall care in the Ministrie to teach euery man his duetie for hee is bound to teach to reproue to approue and improue in season and out of season and in the Magistrate an endeuour to see euery man performe it as farre as to his power and authoritie belongeth who must compell theÌ„ by force that will not doe their dueties in loue And if then the vulgar and inferiour sort striue not to amende and to coÌ„forme themselues to the word of truth taught and to the example of the godly Magistrate propounded before them they shall all dye in their sinnes but the Minister and Magistrate shall be excused But if there appeare negligence in the Ministers the watchmen of the whole flocke the people will also bee negligent if they be ignorant the people will be ignorant if they be wicked the people will be wicked as Hosea saith Such priests such people Therefore now call your dueties to minde ye Ministers and speedily with diligence performe the same And thinke it not enough to bee called the messengers of God vnlesse you speake pronounce the will of God truely and disdaine none that shew their good willes to speake as the occasion of this time requireth For they that feare the Lord vnderstand his will The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome And therefore euery one from the highest to the lowest Prince and Ministers Magistrates and subiects must here begin As a Prince coueting to gouerne prudently as Ministers endeuouring to speake truly and boldly as Magistrates desiring to rule in their places righteously and couragiously and as people willing to liue obediently and religiously So shall there bee a most happie concord and pleasant harmonie in al estates There shal be no want of blessings no cause to feare the enemie no cause to complaine one of anothers wrongs in our land Sinne shall beare no sway but godlines shall flourish in all parts of this land and then as we haue alreadie seene how God hath fought for vs so he will giue vs new encouragements And as Christ sayd to Nathaniel we shall see greater things then these not onely in his fighting for vs but in powring out his heart vnto vs causing vs to vnderstand his word Prou. 1. 23. when yet â—ee will hold our aduersaries still blind that seeing they shall not see in hearing they shall not heare and nothing that they imagine against vs shall prospet but all shall turne to their owne confusion Therefore let the eyes of vs all be towards the Lord and with Dauid let vs all the day stretch out our hands to him that is one and the same for euer louing and powerfull And forasmuch as Princes and Magistrates must in this necessary reformation giue such examples as may tend to the amendment of the inferiour sort it behoueth that they be learned and wise vertuous and valorous so shall the people follow their steppes as it were a light in the darke And therefore the Magistrate must pray for wisedome not to seeme singular in policie but religious in zeale applying the same to the glorie of God to discerne betwixt good and euill that by them sinne the cause of our daunger may bee remoued and faith and religion the strength of our land may bee increased that the vngodly bee not more set by then the righteous that vice be not more aduanced then vertue so shall euery Magistrate be able to say freely Be thou my Iudge O Lord for I haue walked innocently Surely as the Israelites thought themselues happie when they had gotten Debora to gouerne them so most happie are wee that haue Queene Elizabeth to gouerne vs. For as Debora seemed so much the more to be a carefull mother of Israel by how much she liked those gouernours which were likest her selfe which appeareth by that she sayed My heart is set vpon the gouernours of Israell so doubtles the godly care of our gracious Debora to haue all the causes of Gods displeasure to bee taken away appeareth in coueting as much as in her lieth to place godly Magistrates vnder her God make them apt to answer it She matcheth Moses the Magistrate with Aaron the Minister the Word and the Sword which both truely executed must needes make due obedience in the people to the Magistrate and like in the Magistrate to the law and consequently in all to God And then as the Magistrates are placed aboue other men in authoritie so they will goe before the rest in pietie and then no doubt but our Common-wealth shall be secure and bee in the protection of the King inuincible who iudgeth them that iudge vnder him and he will subdue the disobedient hearts to loue and reuerence rulers and to fight couragiously against the enemies of our state as he subdued the people vnto Dauid and made them all incline to his will That whatsoeuer the King did pleased his people Wee see then that wee neede not feare this vaine hoobub of the Spanyard if euery one would forsake sinne and conforme himselfe truly to seek after God And to the end that God may blesse the hearts of all it behoueth all to pray which shall bee considered in the end of this sillie labour CAP. 3. That all men ought to yeeld their vttermost power to resist the pursuers of this blasphemous Hoobub by experience of the power of God shewed vnto our fathers of old HAuing as it is before sayd taken away the causes why God hath intended to moue this fierce nation against vs by a general reformatioÌ„ of our liues which if it appeare by the fruites of our regenerate mindes let vs rest resolued that God the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob the God of Israel the God of the faithfull will bee assuredly on our side The Lord our God as saith
or driuen out by man What naturall reason flesh bloud will argue in this daÌ„gerous time The conceyts of the worldly Our duties to God carry with it a great traine of virtues The repeatance Nineueh The practise of Nineueh an example for vs to follow What wil follow vs in our following the reformation of Niniueh How we must reforme vs. Gods peculiar loue to England England not the 200. parte of the earth The Turkes possesse the places where Christ was borne first preached England is more to be charged for breach of our league then any other nation How we kill Christ againe We must call to minde Gods blessings which will giue vs cause to reforme out liues God chose vs when wee thought not on him Euery one hath a court in his owne conscience Now is the time for the Magistrate to shew himselfe zealous in the Lords good The worde and the swor must concur Euery man must begin his dutie at the feare of God God wil keepe our aduersaries blinde if we feare God and desire to see What is required of the Magistrate A good song for a Magistrate if he sung it truely Moses and Aaron the Magistrate and Minister are to be Martialed together in a christian common wealth All things are written for our instructioÌ„ The Spaniards in strength are not like the sonnes of Anake Which parte God taketh hath the victorie Warre offered by inuasion is fully furnished with militarie necessaries William the Norman took from his men hope of retire Wisdome and trueth beare away the victorie God will defend vs for his Gospels sake Queene Elizabeth goeth forth in person to incourage her people Our secrete Papists discourage our people Whence we are fallen In regarde of the truth imbraced notwithstanding our sins God is with vs. The true catholicke religion is with vs an argument of Gods presence Poore vnlearned Christians haue stopt the mouthes of Romish doctrine The truth will confound Antechrist The enemie standeth on his owne strength we on the blessing of God they on the popes power we on Christs merrits Queene Elizabeth shall cut off the power of Antechrist The romish hope al in outward things They are strong inough and neede not God God is strong in weakenes Few ouercoÌ„e many They feare the weake in diminishing our munition Queene Elizabeth a chosen woman to confound Romish Ihericho by the protection of the word God will assist such as war either to defend his truth professed or to winne anye thereunto Agencourt fielde The Spaniard hath tasted English power and policie to his paine The Spaniards no doubt would not admit the tryall of the contrauersie to equal multitudes Inward desire of the Princes danger or subuersioÌ„ of your country is before God high treason The Spaniard abhorreth traytors though he make much of theÌ„ for a time The course entertaynement of the best of our English runnagates The cause in policie why the Syaniards hangeth not traytors presently The best end of our traytors if the Spaniards should preuaile If God haue wrought a meane beyond reason to dicouer a murder much more will he discouer treasoÌ„ There is in al subiects loue or hate which will show it selfe by the fruits The difference betweene plaine dealing and dissimulation The end of blinde zeale The thirst of papists is the drought of treason A glasse for traytors The Spaniard thinke them neuer true to him that are false to your anoynted prince The spaniards are rude like the Macedonians to call a traytor a traytor The state of a trayor Distinguish the spirits The pope is like the serpent that commandeth forbiddeÌ„ thinges with promise of rewarde A wonder that Papists wonder not at their blindnes Beasts loue the place of their education shewing better loyaltie theÌ„ papists The pope fawneth on papists like a Crocadile who sheds teares when he will destroy Benefits receiued in our natural countrey is an obligation to bind vs to be true vnto it Antechrist the head corner stone of blind zeale The waye to finde out the cause of blindnes is to repaire to the truth The daye which the papists wish to see will be to themselues most fearefull The waye of the foole is right in his owne conceit We ought all to pray for the peace of our countrey How our papists might become happie Euery magistrate ought to know what duty belongeth to his charge Euery commonwealth is a bodie pollytique As euery part of the bodie hath a necessarie place in his place steadeth the body so euery man in a common wealth Sundrie pettie bodies within the whole body of the commonwealth Diuers inferior heads of diuers inferior bodies Peace dangerous without carâ—in Magistrates Officers as also euery subiect ought to discouer a daÌ„gerous person Inferior Magistrates haue their power froÌ„ the higher power Ciuill iustice is the commoÌ„ wealths publike benefite Warre appreueth or reproueth the faith all men towards their country Premeditation of euery mans dutie is necessary before the run to far vnder a good intent The Magistrats ought to foresee things to come The English alwaies valorous Rashnes to be auoyded A subtil practise of the enemie to moue tumults amongst our selues Pryuate men must not stirre before the Magistrate Her Maiestie her counsell the first mouers Suddayne newes dangerous Three things to be auoyded in followers Weapons and pollicie nothing vnles God blesse the vse of them God giueth the victorie in a combate betwene two sparrowes The force of prayer more then the force of weapons God is moued by prayer to alter his decree The prayer of one preuaileth with God to preserue a multitude Prayer a sure anker in danger
seeme to tend to stop it such is the force of it in all that al drinke of one cup and like birdes of a feather holde all together they strayne curtesie who shall begin to reforme it and yet contend who shall exceed in it I haue no more to saie but to assure you that this is one of the ankers that holdeth fast the shippe of our perill to the shores of our seas And are these all Alasse no. Let not couetousnesse be forgotten which is a thirstie sinne the sinne of the wiser fellowes a husbandly sinne therefore is not to bee punished in anie case being condemned of none but of the beggerly minded as affirmeth the vsurer the mannor-monger the farme buier the hoorder of golde and siluer But alas what fooles are these either they neuer reade it or neuer heare it or els they forget it that Christ cries Wo vnto the rich for that they haue their consolation heere But if this did turne but to their owne euils it were the more tollerable It reacheth to the ruine of the poorer sorte and it is seene so apparantly held so dearly amongst vs in these daies that it is a fault to be frugall and therefore to spend all or spare all are most imbraced the one consumeth what another hath gotten the other hoordeth vp what by force and fraud hee can get and this is meere prodigalitie in the one and idolatrie in the other the one spends lewdly is praysed for a gentlemanlike mind and the other keepes wretchedly and is counted to be a good husband two horrible euils but maiden euills for neither of them was euer punished by any lawe yet meerely against Gods lawe and argumentes that they are nothing seasoned with the continuance and long vse of religion which teacheth loue where the rich is to support relieue comfort and stead the poore that want his aide And so farre are they from these vertues that they not onely not comfort them but seeke how to vncloath them howe to vncouch them and howe to vnfurnish them of landes liuing and all other necessaries And it is not lightly to be passed ouer which by meanes of these cormorants hath euen nowe taken holde as in the iudgement of God vppon this lande wherein no doubt and as is helde euen of such cut-throates themselues there is sufficient plentie of corne butter cheese and all other necessaries and yet such is the decay of loue as it will not be brought forth but vppon prices at their owne wills as though they only were Lords of Gods blessings and that the poore haue no share in them but to stand at their colde deuotion And thus to rest vnreformed and the crye of the poore not heard is a maine cable to pull the enemie vpon vs. It is a heauie iudgement of God when there shall bee a common dearth in a common plentie as nowe there is and who so affirmeth the contrary is no good member of the common wealth but sauoreth alltogether of priuate gaine who grinde the faces of the poore with want of that wherewith they abound But surely as for disobedience to God there may be a feare where no feare is so by our fruitles profession whose effectes are loue there may bee dearth where plenty is And surely it were good it were considered why such a iudgement should light vpon vs in the time of the Gospell and that the decay of loue should appeare so farre as to shut vp not onely Christianitie but all humanitie among mē Why may not a man glance at a great cause of this iudgement which as no doubt it is one and the same with that which calleth our enemies euen our sinnes Yet there is a peculiar cause which stinketh in the nostrils of God namely the consuming of corne the meere earthly blessing of God to preserue man abut the strengthening of pride in making of starch A toeration intolerable Woe vnto him that brought the deuise first into our land For it crieth out mainly to God who will not abide that about our neckes in pride that should bee consumed which should feede our bodies in penurie But it is made they say with the coursest part of the wheate Alas let not Magistrates bee deceiued it is the most purest of the purest corne Oh that it were reformed for it is a wofull euill drawing with it both famine and warre and yet this among many other sins trippeth on like a vice that maketh not only the vitious but the virtuous to taste of her vanitie Infinit euils there accompanie these former vnpunished sinnes and they are assuredly the maine winde that filleth as it were the sailes of the Spanyards to inuade vs whom the Lord hath stirred vp either in mercie to reforme vs or in iudgement to punish vs. And surely as euery one hath his hand in these euils and none can excuse himselfe from bringing and heaping one sinne vpon another bewraying thereby the breach of al our duties to God in generall in not performing what we professe let vs not perswade our selues of safetie vnles wee can frame vs to repentance and reformation And as no doubt in this the negligent Minister hath much to answer by whose careles discharge of his dutie function many of these euils haue crept in and taken deepe roote So they must thinke that now is the time wherein they must redeeme what they haue long omitted and so by their new diligence endeuour to roote out sinne and plant faith that there may appeare fruits of euery mans profession that the cause of this fearefull hoobub being taken away wee may still possesse our libertie and that our religion bee not in shew onely but in the simplicitie of our hearts so shal it be vnto vs as the bloud of the paschall Lambe striken vpon the shores of our seas that the destroying Angell may passe by vs and cast our enemies into the deuouring gulfe Yet let mee speake a little more without suspition of being too officious or too forward Surely the delayes of poore mens causes in our courts of England and the procrastinations of dispatch of causes before Magistrates hath a share in this matter the free oppressions of the poore by the rich without remedie doe crye among the rest to God for iustice and God againe calleth the Spaniards to execute the same Would God wee could shew our selues no lesse tractable then children who can leaue their wantonnes if they see but the rod. And if wee could leaue our vices and imbrace religion God would not proceede further to strike vs but like a louing father would cast this his rod into the fire CAP. 2. What is to be done to escape the iudgements of God intended by this Antichristian hoobub FOrasmuch then as no man can denye but that the cause of this daungerous hoobub of the Spanyard is our sinne which foldeth vp our feare as it were in a foure folde mantle answerable to the
wealth of your owne countrie to the vttermost of your powers Much more are you tyed to this duty sith the truth it selfe the bond of al obedience calleth you back from your disloyall thoughts wherein you seem to steale couertly away from the substance of naturall loue to run after the shadow of impious zeale zeale not onely without knowledge but zeale builded vpon meere treason Antichrist himselfe being the head corner stone And therefore doubtlesse your vnderstanding is much obscured how wise soeuer you seeme in your selues and howsoeuer you bee flattered by them that would make vse of your wickednes And you can no more perceiue their cunning as appeareth then Dauid could conceiue of the cause why God prospered the wicked in his daies and punished the godly But as hee found it out by entring into the sāctuary of God so seek you how to apprehend your true duetie by becomming conformable to the true word of God casting away the idle inuentions of the man of sinne And as Aaron might not enter into the sanctuary where God did answer vntill he had sanctified himselfe So sanctifie your obedience and enter into league with Christ by becomming loyall subiects to his annoynted And beleeue them not that giue you counsell to lie as you do lurking to looke for a good houre as you are made to beleeue it beware it will bee a dismall day vnto you that you so greedily gape for by what badge soeuer you seeme to be distinguished you will be vnknowen to the Spaniards your speech will bewray you you will not bee able to pronounce Shibboleth as the Spanish Gilliadices doe but Sibboleth like English Ephramites you will as easilie be discerned as the Guelfes from the Gybelines they are a subtill generation that shall deale with you And therefore gather your selues together and before that daye come ioyne with God against Beliall take parte with Christ against Antichrist receiue light and abandon darknes flie treason and become euery man true vnto Queene Elizabeth your countrie Take counsell not o◠me but of Zephaniah the Prophet Seek righteousnes seeke lowlines Submit your selues to her Maiestie before the fierce wrath of the Lord come vpon you Imitate the counsell of the wise man who willeth you to Put away a froward mouth and let all your waies bee ordered aright And thinke not your owne blind conceits to be the way of life for the way of the foole is right in his owne conceit but he that is guided by counsel is wise And therefore refuse not to knowe this that if the people of Israel were commanded to pray for the peace of Babylon wherein they were held captiues and to pray for him that had dispoyled them of all their goods and possessions how much more ought you not onely not to rebel or wish euil vnto your so gracious a soueraigne but to pray for her and for the peace of your countrie wherein also you may haue peace Learne of Dauid who said God forbid that I should lay hands vpon Gods annoynted for who saith he can lay his handes vpon the Lords annoynted and be guiltlesse It is needlesse to tel you how the pope that lyar doth yet encounter Dauid and saith goe and lay thy handes on the Lordes annointed and thou shalt merit heauen oh impious wretch that commaunds forbidden things and forbids thinges commanded And yet alas wretches how are you blinded that will not see Learne therefore that it is your dutie aboue all things to beware of contemning or violating the authoritie of your prince who is replenished with vertue religion and Maiestie amongst you and all confirmed by God whose ordinance you breake in contemning her much more in your treasons against her Therefore most happie were you if after these your dangerous consultations and rebellious practises you againe would returne and imbrace obedience consecrating your soules to God onelie with vnfained dedication of your bodies liues and goods to the seruice of her that in so doing will louingly imbrace you and God most assuredly will pardon you Come out from among them then and be saued A dutifull admonition not only to all inferiour Magistrates but to all loyall subiects to shew themselues watchfull in these dangers and with carefull diligence to seeke to preuent all occasions which may moue the vnaduised multitude to any sudden and vndiscreet hurly burlies with an exhortation to all men to be valorous HE that seemeth worthie to bee a Magistrate or to bee termed a fit man to gouerne the least charge in a Common wealth not onely a kingdome a prouince a hundred yea a familie must endeuour himselfe to know what dutie is required at his hands and the same to performe with premeditate discretion And for that I wish wisedome to all being able to teach none I will omit the superiour and giue my best aduise to the lower sort He is indeede a sillie man and not worthie to beare the burthen of a Tithingman much lesse of a high Constable least of all of a superiour Magistrate that cannot examine how he standeth in his place whether he bee as a hande an eye a finger or a foote of a Common-wealth knowing that euery Common-wealth is a bodie politique compared to a bodie naturall And as the head is the chiefest part the guide and superiour gouernour of the bodie and all the members are as officers vnder the same some of a higher qualitie and authoritie then other as the heart the eyes the hands and legges which are principall members seruants in office to the superiour so are the fingers toes c. petie officers vnto the former euery of them being bound to his next superiour and so all by a naturall dutie are seruants to the head and that for the preseruation and supportation of the entrailes and maine bodie which is so much the more safe from daunger by how much euery member hath ablenes and skill to performe his place in true duetie not one part whereof is void of some necessarie function as reason it selfe accompanied with our dailie experience doth plainly witnes vnto vs. So is our superior Magistrate the head and gouernour of vs who being many in number make vp a compleat bodie politique some in Magistracie and superiour authoritie and some in inferiour functions and all in true dutie to one head who being by our negligence or vnaduised proceedings in our seuerall places any way endangered the daunger cannot but descend from it to our owne confusion And therefore doth policie dismember a bodie of a legge an arme a hand or foote desperatly infected to preserue the rest of the bodie So a Common-wealth cutteth off euery euill member thereof as wee see by the lawes of our land lest it should infect the rest and so endaunger the whole state politique And as it fareth with a Common-wealth in generall so it doth with the parts thereof as with a prouince shire and
serued in sinceritie and trueth more then of all the rest What fruites expecteth he of the Turkes who are his professed enemies who yet possesse the greatest part euen from Transiluania to Persia East and West and from the southmost parts of vnhappie Arabia as it may bee called to the sea Euxinus Northward wherein are those holy places where God was first honoured nowe most blasphemed as Palestine which was the holy land the land of Canaan where were sometime his peculiar people the Iewes whom he for their disobedience hath cast out not onely of this blessed land but into a reprobate sense and hath made them runnagates vpon the face of the earth not allowing them any peculiar countrie or citie to dwell in The Turke also possesseth those seuen Churches of Asia mentioned in the Reuelation and in their places GOD hath most gratiously chosen England farre from thence among fewe others in these northerne and northeast partes many leagues from the place where he was first honored which indeed might strike in vs the more admiration of his prouidence and the more duetie and reuerence in our callings to his maiestie For that hee hath cut off the naturall to engraffe vs the vnnaturall braunches into his loue It were needlesse to shew how hee suffereth the most part yea almost al the world to cōtinue blind yet giueth vs light for there is no light without the truth and no truth without the spirite and the fruits which proceede from that spirit againe is the true light And therfore no common wealth in generall can so farre be charged as England who only hath had the free vse therof many yeres If we should bee found yet in darknes which is argued by the fruites of sinne we could not haue so much hope of safetie as they that neuer had the light Alas shall we be then more blind then the Papists who are zealous in carnall ceremonies Shall wee suffer the Turke in zeale of his Mahomet to go beyond vs in zeale of our Christ and shall the Iew bring forth the fruits of the law more precisely then we doe the fruites of the Gospell Surely if it be so wee must thinke that God will deale no more fauourably with vs then he did with them whom hee cast out for not receiuing his sonne borne among them preached and preaching vnto them whom they slewe bodily as we doe spiritually if we speake of him truely and followe him falsely What then is required of vs now in this dreadfull hoobub England shall bee destroyed for that no doubt seedeth the Spanyard that he may possesse it The way for vs is to retire our selues to the Gospell and what wee are thereby taught diligently to follow both to the confirming of them that are alreadie sealed with the knowledge thereof as indeede many are in England and to turne againe the most obdurate and wilfull sinners from their obstinate rebellions against so louing a God And surely vnlesse the dew of Gods spirit bee meerely dried vp in our hearts the word of God ioyned with the reuerent and faithfull vse of his holie and blessed Sacraments shall worke our regeneration and shape in vs new thoughts new affections new endeuours and new hearts so that we shall so faire forget our old vanities and naturall inclinations as Abraham forgat his owne countrey and his fathers house and wee shall haue as longing a desire to frame our selues according to the will of God and to goe to him in well doing as Abraham had to goe to the land of promise When God would stirre vp the children of Israel to turne from their iniquities which in their hearts they had so long practised hee vsed no other argument but putting them in minde of the miseries wherein they were borne namely in idolatrie and bondage in Egypt a cursed citie where they were made slaues Exod. 3. 10. and that their fathers were Idolaters and themselues giuen ouer to all voluptuousnes and pleasure not regarding God nor seeking his religion And surely the same argument may hee make against vs whom hee hath brought out of Romish Egypt and spirituall bondage wherein our fathers liued and many of vs were borne yet God in his diuine loue beholding vs in this wofull state pitied our miserie and thraldome and when wee were greedily following our owne destruction in darknes he sayd vnto vs as vnto his children of Israel ye shall liue and so anew as it were breathed into vs his diuine light by giuing vs the free vse of the Gospel Whē Iosua had brought them into the lande of Canaan as Queene Elizabeth hath brought vs into the lād of truth into the light out of darknes he declared vnto them the benefits that God had bestowed vpon them to the ende that they might bee the more stirred vp by the remembrance thereof obediently to follow GOD that had brought that mightie thing to passe for them Therfore let vs also call to mind Gods wonderfull and many blessings towards vs which as they are infinite so deserueth he all our studies thoughts and deuises to be bended to his glorie And among the rest of his mercies let vs not forget how he caused the winds and the sea to fight for vs against these pursuers in their former inuincible strength and how hee tooke the quarrell into his hand and determined the same both to his owne glorie and our safetie And if we remember this we shal auoyd the occasions to displease so mercifull a God so louing a father so seuere a Iudge who dealt with our enemies as hee did with Pharaoh and his hoast Let vs therefore bee reformed in our actions and renewed in our mindes For as GOD no doubt chose vs before wee thought on him so he will defend vs if now we trust in him hauing such experience of the riches of his mercies wherein he loued vs euen when wee were dead in trespasses and sinnes when wee were Idolaters Let vs not shew our selues now dead in sinne but let vs bee quickened in all obedience and let vs no more bee allured with the golden cup of our owne vanities which is full of poyson within Is it not a sweete thing to remember that wee were once bound but now are free we haue been in danger but now are safe and is not the contrarie dreadfull and shall wee by our sinnes which are the death of the soule and the subuersion of kingdomes aduenture to liue in them for a moment and bee in danger of captiuitie or the sword here and after dye for euer rather then leauing thē for a moment bee freed from this present daunger and liue for euer Oh let vs make haste to returne vnto the Lord let vs not lagger behinde and so our captaine Iehouah depart from vs and we fall into the enemies hand But to whom doth it belong to see this weightie and most worthie worke of the reformation of our liues done Surely to all