Land rest is to tender and make such Propositions to God as may get sin out of the heart and pardoned and God reconciled To conclude this Reason I may truely say we trouble our selves and bid much but this one thing is necessary 3. Argument Because the Lord takes no notice of easie performances or lazie prayers He expects if the Church be in necessity and we sensible of it that we should use importunity It becoms His Majesty to be so sought unto for such like mercies 36 Ezek. Vers 37. I will yet for this be inquired after saith the Lord c. A man that will have his Vineard to thrive and be fruitfull must labour and worke in it and a man that will have his prayer thrive must labour in prayer it must be his daily Trade 2 Cor. 1.11 You also ldbouring for us in prayers God will never answer a lazie begging Christian we must not be reporters of the Churches necessities but petitioners Yea petitioners with a kind of holy impudency not to be put off with privitive silence or positive deniall Nay although God seeme to affront us for the present yet must we give God no rest no not hold our peace untill he make his Church the praise of the whole carth Our labouring in prayers will soonest bring the Church to rest from calamities You never found any rich mercy obtained by lazie dutie easie seldom performances produce slow remedies a straitned Church cals for an active and inlarged heart And mark it ever when the Church prayes with most ease it reapes the least profit or comfort when prayer is a pennance or irksome exercise to us as in 1. Mulachy many say what a wearinesse it is and snuffe at it it is never an acceptable service for us But he that is laborious and active in duty cannot long be passive under misery labouring in prayer is that which puts God upon expedition he cannot long delay us or deny us if we industriously ply the work of Prayer And as a remedie to cure this malady in prayer by the way take this Recipe wouldst thou amend thy easie praying repent of thy active sinning You shall never shew me a man that is active and laborious in sinning but I will show you the man that is and must of necessity be easie and lazie-hearted in praying 4. Argument Because proportionable duty hath Gods promise intailed upon it sames 5.16 The prayer of the righteous availeth much if it be servent ever marke this the more servency the more prevalency David in Psal 14.1 desireth that his praier may come up before the Lord as incense and you know incense never went up without fire Prayers of words are to our and the Churches necessities and against our Enemy as Powder without Ball which may make a great noyse and terrifie for a time but hurts them not nor helpes us Of all the Elements the Naturallists observe fire gets neerest to heaven and of all meanes a zealous fervent praier gets neerest to the God of heaven Our earthie cold-hearted prayers are like a Bell which whilst it lyeth on the ground can make no musick but when steepled then it sounds loud cold or luke-warme water can never fetch out the blood or rawnesse of slesh it must have fire put to it to make it fit for nourishment cold prayers can never fetch out the corruption and scum of our filthy hearts no a heavenly fire must prepare our prayers for Gods digestion 5. Argument In regard of the Churches mercies and deliverances that we stand in need of mercy appeareth best when by a proportionable duty we blazon out our miserie it is a disparagement to Nationall mercy to come at the summons of halfe-dutie or dutie performed by halves raggs and torne pieces of duty are unbecoming mercy descending from majesty Every good and perfect gift saith S. Iames comes from the Father of lights and if upon easie requests we would soone slight them if we could get mercy easily we would forget it as easily who prodigall away their estates sooner then they that never sweat to gaine a penny of it that penny that is got with most labour and trudging for is not so usually rioted away in excesse but hoarded up That Samuel that Hanna can with difficulty wrastle out of Gods hand shall be dedicated to his service all the daies of his life the things that cost us deare we ever prize most those Colours we take with hazard of life are charily laid up as Trophies of honour truly it much advanceth friendship when it appeares in necessity and it doeth as much heighten mercie when we gaine it in our faintings for it when in the Mount God is seen he can rarely be forgot 6. Argument Because the heart of the King is in the Lords hand and he is able to turne it which way soever pleaseth him every way of a man is right in his own eyes but the Lord ordereth the heart Prov. 21.1.2 yea more for your incouragement to performe exactly Proportionable duty the answer of the tongue is from the Lord Prov. 16.19.21 There are many devices in mans heart neverthelesse the counsell of the Lord that shall stand Job 33.12 God is greater then man and ordereth him at pleasure Psal 33.10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of Princes to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect Isaiah 46.11 My counsell shall stand and I will performe all my pleasure c. Vers 12. Hearken unto me you stout-hearted that are far from righteousnesse I hold out all these Scriptures to you as lights to show you where the Kings heart is and who hath the ordering of it it is out of his owne hands a decree sealed by the King is nothing to oblige Ahashuerosh if God wil have it reversed concerning his people Nay although it appeare so it is not in Hamans hand to dispose on nay with comfort I dare speake it the Kings heart is not in Digbys or Hydes or any other such Haman-like hands in the world no it is in the Lords hands God altered the heart of Abimilech Gen. 20. Laban thought his heart to be in his owne hand to act against acob he pursued after him seven dayes Gen. 31.23 but read the 24 Vers God commands him to speake to lacob nothing but good and to enter into Covenant and to blesse them Balak thought it in the power of his heart to curse the people Numb 22. ult sends to Balaam a Sorcerer to this purpose Balaams heart is not in his owne power In the 8. Vers Lodge heere and I will bring you word againe as the LORD shall speake unto me Read what followes Vers 12. and Vers 24. Numb 13. There is no sorcery against acob See 8. Esay 9.10.11 It is not to be held by counsells Saul had spent much time in the pursuit of David and his heart was set for evill against him and yet God upon their meeting disposeth of his heart and
leave behinde you The Lord never forgets a cup of cold water given to quench the Saints thirst in their necessity how much sooner will it be ingraven upon his heart the providing of cordiall precious portions for his languishing people yea God will provide a compensation for you and yours in all your afflictions Nay you shall treasure up praises for your selves and prayers for your surviving families in the ages that are to come and know this also that God hath riches enough in his Cabinet to make you amends for all you can do or suffer in this way Indeed I have beheld you with such alacrity noble courage expediting your motion endeavouring by all meanes night and day to find out him whom your soules love and long after for the Churches good that the quaere of the Church in the third of the Canticles and the third was to any whom it might concerne your first salute Can you tell us of His Majesty Yea I have seene so much of your unalterable and prepared patience digesting the vulgar curses and affronts as your diet and content with any thing that you might do the Church service that I shall ever blesse God that he yet accommodates the Church with such Friends and the King and Kingdoms with such Worthies who will venture through an host of enemies if possible to fetch water to refresh the Church of God therfore I will spare my self the labour by any more Motives to put you in mind to go on who are ready to run for the Churches and Kingdomes peace All therefore that now remaines is but to hold out to your view some other Observations that I had thought to have handled to complete your preparation for this dayes great Action but in regard you have Summons for the action and but a small parcell of time before you attend His Majesty that I may no way be prejudiciall to your private practice of this preparation or any other becoming so great a work I will briefly shew you the jewells they are ready command me to place them inyour ears at your pleasure and my obedience shall eccho to your order You have heard 1 That Nationall and Personall preparation is necessary for the undertaking any great action for the Church Gather all the Jewes in Shushan I also c. 2 That Representative persons interposing for the Church in a strait deserve representative prayer Fast pray for me 3 Extraordinary and great duty is necessary for the Church in great misery Fast pray night and day eat nor drink c. The fourth you should have heard and I handled is this 4 That messengers of such prayers are ever messengers of praise they are thriving prospering messengers 5 That all selfe must be denied that the Church may be saved We must not thinke of our selves and the Church at one time if we do we shall never go thorough stitch with the work If I perish I perish let me assure you this if you save the Church you cannot lose your selves and if the Church perish juggle and Hocus Pocus it as nearely as you can your sleights will be found out and you cannot save your selves It is no time to feather our nests and build to lay our young when so many stroakes have beene given at the root of the tree seek we great things for our selves for shame no more of it what do we painting our cabines when so many leakes in the ship first stop the leakes get out the water there is a time to trim this cabine afterward Lastly The meanes must be used although our ends are not obtained If we perish we perish For although God can deliver his Church without us yet his usuall method hath been to make choice of some Moses some Ioshuahs Gideons Davids c. for the preservation of his Church nay of Jesus Christ for the salvation of it And now give me leave to wind up all with the practice of that duty for you which I have in this Sermon commended to you Go and the Lord be with you yea the God of heaven blesse you and cause the Kings face to shine upon you and make you glad that he speak nothing but good unto you this day the Lord avert all whispering flattering Doegs this day and returne you with a Message of hope at least if not of present help for these three bleeding Kingdomes yea the Lord make your interposing for the Church as prosperous as Abigails and let the Kings answer be as Davids 1 Sam. 25.31 33 34. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent you this day to meet me and blessed be your advice and blessed be ye which have kept me this day from going on to shed any more of my Subjects innocent blood and from avenging my selfe with my own hand and that he may receive at your hands what you have brought him and say unto you Go up in peace to both my Houses of Parliament see I have karkened to your voyces and accepted your persons give me but favour to add one word in prayer after the Apostles directory 2. Thes 3.16 Now the Lord of peace himselfe give you peace alwaies by all meanes yea now peace and let it be the Lords peace and the Lords free gift of peace let it be peace with him peace with your consciences peace one with another such a peace as all things may prosper with you yea that publike tranquillity and quiet in the Church may follow that it bee not troubled with Schismes and Heresies within or without by persecuting Tyrants ruinating all by slaughters and cruell bloody warres O let every good heart pray for this peace for our Hierusalem that there may be tranquillity in the state and free from forraigne and civill uncivill warres that in the peace thereof we may have peace that these distracted Kingdomes may be in security and void of dangers free from the noise of terrifying alarums and other dangers Yea the Lord give us such a peace that there may be an everlasting Covenant betwixt God and the King betwixt God the King and his people and let us and the whole Church of God heartily cry Amen Amen So be it And so the Lord be with you all to blesse you in the great worke of this day and all other your great imployments for his glory and his Churches good To whom with all our hearts be rendred and ascribed all Honour Glory Power and Praise now and evermore Amen FINIS
resolution and use importunate prayer as a Preparation so go into the King if ye perish ye perish May it please you now as an Introduction to my Text to premise with me these particulars 1. The utter extirpation of the Church of God plotted and if you observe it this plot had it's rise from self-ends Esther 3. Vers 5. 6. When Haman saw Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence then was he full of wrath hee thought scorne to lay hands on Mordecai wherfore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole Kingdome 2. The Kings humour observed a decree for the execution demanded and an advance of moneys promised verse 8. 9. And Haman said to the King there is a certaine people scattered abroad and dispersed among thy people in all the provinces of thy Kingdome and their Laws are divers from all people neither keepe they the Kings Law therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them If it please the King let it be written that they be destroyed and I will pay ten thousand talents of Silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the businesse to bring it into the Kings Treasuries 3 The request obtained Regina pecunia quid non and the mannaging of the businesse solely to Haman committed Vers 11 12 13. And the King said to Haman the silver is given to thee and the people also to do with them as seemeth good to thee c. Then were the Kings sons called and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the Kings Lievtenants and to the Governours that were over every Province and to the Rulers of every People of every Province according to the writing thereof and to every people after their language in the name of the King was it written and sealed with the Kings Ring and the letters were sent by Poasts into all the Kings Provinces to destroy and to kill and to cause to perish all the Iews both young and old little children and women in one day 4 The activity of the Churches Enemies for the speedy execution of this plot observed Vers 15. The Post went out being hastned by the Kings Commandement 5 A double effect of this plot decreed the Court and Enemies of the Church are merry and their spirits elevated They sit down to drink The Church of God is perplexed Vers 16. The City Shushan was perplexed 6 Mordecai's Personall sence of this misery he is more eminently affected Chap. 4. Vers 1. Perceiving what was done he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes and went out into the City and cried with a loud and bitter cry c. 7 The Nationall sence of this calamity Vers 3. And in every Province where the decree came there was great mourning and fasting and weeping and wailing and many lay in sackcloth and ashes 8. The plot to Esther discovered by her maids Vers 4. and by Mordecai confirmed Vers 7. 9. Some difficulties by sense proposed Vers 10 11. and by Mordecai answered Vers 13 14. and by her faith mastered she puts on an heroick resolution and returnes Mordecai my Text for a concluding answer Goe gather together all the Jewes in Shushan and fast ye for me c. In the words you have The Messengers order for preparation Nationall and Personall for her good successe in undertaking that great action Goe gather together In which preparation you have two particulars 1. The suitablenesse of the duty to the Churches difficulty or her prescribing them suitable duty to so great a difficulty The Church is in a great strait decreed to death a decree also that none shall dare to approach the Kings presence uncalled much lesse to be a Petitioner for life to reverse a decree Vers 11. 2. Proportionable duty Fast pray nay fast all pray one and all nay do this exactly strictly neither eat nor drink nay do it importunately ply the work ply it night and day The Action these two particulars 1 The Messengers sensiblenesse of the Churches misery and her own difficulty I also and my maidens will fast likewise She doth not put upon others what she will not practise her selfe nor trust to others duties alone as a meanes for her security no I also if the Church be in misery she will as a member put her selfe on exact duty 2 The Messengers subsequent independing heroick selfe-denying resolution So will I go in to the King If I perish I perish The words are without difficulty onely thus farre permit me that I may condescend to every mans capacity 1. The Jewes were then the people of Gods love his heritage his eare friends against these is the decree sealed for death for these the pit is digged the net spread the sword sharpened these thus designed for death must fast and pray heartily for the Messengers acceptance as the onely probable meanes for their deliverance 2. In Shushan that was indeed the winter-Palace of the Kings of Persia but to it was adjoyned a City which was denominated so from it Why the Jewes at the Court may thinke to escape as Mordecai intimates Verse 11. by the Kings favour they in the City to be secure as within Lines of Communication No all must to the worke for the Churches deliverance 3. Fast ye for me Some read it Orate prome The Originall hath it Jejunate supra me Arm me with your prayers and Fasting against the strength of malice and power of a decree Jejunium pro suffragio apud summum Deum petit 4. So will I go in to the King Magna fidncia Reginae in jejunio monstratur magnaque charitas in vitam populi 5. If I perish I perish She submits to God imbracing her own death rather then daring to neglect the use of the meanes for the Churches safety as undervaluing trampling on and contemning that life that may out-live the prosperity of the Church of God There are streaming from these fountaines many eminent truths time and your weighty occasions prohibit me to adventure upon all I shall therefore at this present onely summon some of them to appeare and passe them by with observation one I shall insist on for your present preparation unto the great work of this day First from the first branch of the order Go gather together all the Iewes you may observe That unity in duty is a sweet preparation to obtaine mercy for the Church of God in difficulty Indeed it is the strength of duty and that which adapts us for mercy Psal 134. Vers 1 2 3. Behold how good for brethren to dwell together so to fast to pray together I there the Lord commands his blessing even life for evermore Act. 2.1 They were all with one accord in one place and in the fourth Verse Then they were all filled with the Holy Ghost Indeed there is nothing doth so unfit us for mercy as our divisions it is the Basis of the Churches ruines that we
tongue to blesse him read 1 Sam. 26.25 Princes hearts have been nay they still are there you see it is but improving of proportionable Nationall and Personall interests and strength with our God in duty and without all question we may gaine this eminent mercy and have his heart with us before his person who thinks on or grudgeth his hazardous voyage to the Indies when he considereth a probability of getting gold pearles and diamonds we never think of the hardships of warfare and the difficulty of duties when we are bent upon honour and were we resolved for Nationall mercy and such a blessing as the Kings heart to subscribe to the just desires of all his Kingdomes we should not stick at any duty if we were but a little love-sick of mercy it would break a little more out of our lips And thus having given you reasons for this truth I shall supplicate you for a little patience whilest I apply it Vse 1. for information of us how much they are to blame that do not at this day supply the lamentable imploring necessities of the Church of God in both Kingdomes But are extreame short in dutie if they consider the length heighth depth and bredth of their misery little water will not quench or decrease a great fire no rather increase the flame the taking away a little blood will not cure a calenture the body must in such a case be brought low the leaving of a few grosse sins not cure the Churches evill nor the simple performance of monethly duties no the Church of God is brought low but our hearts are not brought low no they must if we will ever do good on it be brought much lower yet 2 Such as consider not at all or take no notice or looke a squint on the Churches misery Amos 6.1 Woe to those that are at ease in Zion and trust in the mountaines of Samaria that put farre from them the evill of the Nation and lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves on couches and cat the lambs out of the flock and calves out of the shall and so Vers 3.6 That chaunt to the sound of the viole and invent to themselves instruments of musiick That drink wine-in bowles and annoint themselves with the chiefe oyntments but they are not grieved for the affliction of Ioseph How many in the Kingdome keeping the Churches fasting dayes as feasting dases instead of neither eating nor drinking day nor night drinke if not cat day and night 3 Such as delay the answering the Churclies necessity in misery by performance of proportionable dutie like Salemons sluggard A little more sleep a little more slumber and a little more folding of the hands and so misery cats in like a gangrene it is an old saying Quod cito fit bis fit An opportune remedy is a double curtesie he that helps at a pinch helpes to purpose he that cryeth spare the child when the stripes are given gives little ease gets little thanks O that we would know what belongs to the Churches peace Luk. 19.41 in this our day before these recovering mercies are hid from our eyes he speaks too late to the Judge for a reprieve when the ladder is turned It may be God will now heare and grant to morrow he will not In Cant. 2. the Church that drowsily neglected her safety after in the third Chapter seeks it night and day but found it not It 's good stepping into the poole upon the motion of the waters if you misse your wind you may lose your voyage the season hath pantings and swounding fits already take heed it go not away in one of these fits Fourthly they also are much to blame who proportion their duties to the measure of their own pressing necessities and so are injurious to the cause of the Church of God Jeremy was not hurt for the hurt of himself but the daughter of his people Many are praying and fasting for their owne interests no Esther thinks not of her self but her people so it must not be thy life or my life or thine or my goods estate children c. or thy personall suffering that must affect thee and afflict thee but the sufferings of all the members of Jesus Christ In all their afflictions thou must be afflicted and for them all thou hast must be hazarded And now Right Honourable and wel-beloved suffer me to come to you in a word of Exhortation with some few Motives and I shall conclude all with supplications for God to guide your hearts to such personall preparations that you may this day find favour in the sight of God and the King and return at least with hopes of Peace or some small branch to show the waters are abated and that God in due time will cause the Arke which is the Church of God to rest safe upon the mountaines of hope 2. Use of Exhortation That by way of preparation for your addresse to His Majesty for the Churches preservation you and the Church of God would learne and practice that lesson that you may be praisefull and powerfull You see Esthers practice for her distressed people Nay you see the three Kingdomes like that man that fell among theeves wounded and bleeding to death Oh be not like the hard-hearted Priests and Levites that minded more the market then their neigbours misery But put on the good Samaritans compassion and goe and doe likewise let your bowels yerne towards the poore wounded Lazerated halfe dead kingdomes looke out for oyle betimes to poure into the deepe wounds of it O apply such playsters as may eate out the putrifying cores and if yet you cannot heale yet keepe open and sweet the wounds of the Church of God I know you are men of skill and know how to doe it you indeed with those Honourable Houses that sent you under God are the Physitians must doe it It is you that must heale up the wounds make up the breaches that must bring backe God to his people and fetch the Kings heart to his God and your selves and his People And I heartily pray there may be found no Mountebanks amongst you who are more affected with the goods of the Nation then the good of the Nation such who mount the Stage to vent old drugs by faire bumbasted expressions for wholesome and new Physick The Lord give you skill also to discover all such if any before they too much retard the Churches cure The Lord make you all men of affections and bowels to lay to heart and pitty the Kingdomes wounds Nay thirdly men of diligence neglecting no opportunity the losse of time may be the losse of life Now if ever pray for good successe Indeed the condition of the three Kingdomes doth not onely require it but the distressed of the Land expect that you croud thorough all difficulties and carnall reasonings and by any meanes represent their condition to the Lord in the way of extraordinary duty I could wish we would at
last leave mocking and deluding the poore Church of God and deale open-heartedly with them we promise and professe we will doe any thing for their ease and yet more then show nothing is done to this day we are like an idle servant alwayes going of an arrant but never goe and doe it For shame now at last let us lessen weaken our sinsthat we may strengthen our prayers the life of three Kingdoms is at stake nay of the Church of God for ought you know pardon my importunity if I sollicite you to be active by a few Motives it being upon life and death of three famous Kingdoms 1. Motive Yours and every one of our Relations to it it is the Church of God of which you are fellow-members it is the ship of which you are partowners in which your lives nay the lives of your precious Soules and all the provisions for your posterities are imbarked Since the storme began I confesse you have rowsed up many a lazie and snorting Jonah nay you have cast most of the unnecessary lumber that was more burthensome then serviceable to the ships use into the Sea shall I say nay some part out of their seas and yet all is not well the poore ship drawes much blood yet swims very deepe in the Red Sea I beseech you rumedgy the ship once more and if you find any seeds-men of Division S. Paul in the 16 of the Romans 17. intreats you to take notice of them as monstous and I have read it is prodigiously ominous to a ship to be haunted with monsters Raysing parties in a family ship or army is a thing of a very sad consequence therefore the Apostle dares give it under his hand That God is not the author of consusion but of peace as in all the Churches of the Saints 1 Cor. 14.33 Truely it is a sad thing to see the members of Jesus Christ out of joynt for Christ falls not of from his members why should the members fall off from one another There can be no such reason given why we should seperate one from another as there can be why Christ might seperate from us It is the glory of Christs body when every member is serviceable to the whole in its right place These are also weighty luggedge and the Apostle adviseth such after admonition to be cast out for these extreamly prevent the exact performance of proportionable duty Lastly let every one search his owne Cabine whether he have not secretly brought no unwarrantable goods aboard for his owne ends that may make the ship liable to forfeiture If so over with them what a shame is it to any man to forfeit a ship for his owne advantage or the Church should perish for concealed abhominations unpardoned sinners are dead men and dead men are prejudiciall to a ship and therefore to be cast over else God will say ere long as to Abimelech Gen. 20.3 Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman thou hast taken so for the sin you have committed and are taken in Why should we joy in any thing whilst the Church may take hurt the Saints of God have ever been as tender of it as their selves and preferred its good before all injoyments If I forget Ierusalem let my right hand forget its cunning It was so deare and went so neere to old Ely the news of its losse when the Ark was taken that it is disputed whether heart or his neck brake first Wherefore I beseech you let your relation to it make you now in its misery to put forth and hazard your selves to the utmost for relieviing Mercy Mordeca's Motive to Esther was it was her Nation it s mine to you they are your Nations it is your Church your Families your Houses your Estates your Children Wives Selves Soules your Gospell Ordinances are aimed at O pray pray Fast and pray cry mightily all 's at stake 2. Motive Because such duty if the Church be sick or Sentenced unto death under a decree Nay although with Ezekiah it hath received a message That it shall dye and not live yet it is of power to procure God to visite it and one of his visites is halfe the recovery of it Psalm 8.14 It is some comfort to men that are labouring under hard undertakings that they labour not in vaine be of good courage and of good comfort Your labour is not in vaine with the Lord for his decreed Church to ruine 3. Motive It is your last refuge it is that besides which you have hardly any thing left you If men have nothing left or have spent all but their fingers ends to maintaine them and their families they had need ply them diligently and cherish them carefully If a house stand but on one pillar it had need oft to be viewed for repaires and to see that be safe and well founded prayer is as it were the onely Pillar of the Church it is as the fingers ends we had need imploy our fingers ends for our selves and our fellow-members in misery if we intend a livelihood 4. Motive You are all sentenced and by your Enemies appoynted to dye I hope no true member of the Church but will speake a word for himselfe I confesse our owne guilt might sow up our lips and we might bee left wordlesse but yet if God offer thee an opportunity ply him for thy life and the Churches safety with importunity for if thou speed not this way thou art undone for ever Your life is on it there is no trifling with life doe you not know what condemned men doe in poynt of life for pardon Improve all their friends all their time all their skill all for a pardon so doe you and prosper 5. Motive Because by this kind of duty if you cannot prevaile with God and that for causes best knowne to himselfe for compleat redemption out of misery Yet you shall for a mittigation of it and for a sanctified use of it and for strength of grace to undergoe it and there is a great deale of difference in mens sufferings and deaths all men dye but some men are kil'd by death It was the saying of a godly man he did aegrotare vitaliter so the godly doe mori vitaliter for nothing can arme death to hurt us but sin otherwise thou art hard sting-free we never feare the noyse of a Fly as the humming of a Bee because it hath no sting So that this kind of duty though it cannot keepe thee and me from dying by the Sword it will keep us from dropping into hell and it is a sweet mercy for the members of the Church with Stephen at their dearh to see heaven opened and to die with the sence of Gods love though of mans cruell malice 6. Motive Your paines in duty for the Church of God in misery what ever it be shall be rewarded to you and yours unto many generations this will intitle you to the most sure inheritance and lasting legacy you can