But let vs passe to that other part of this Scripture the most certaine and constant happinesse of the righteous leauing the wicked in their shame and eternall blacke night VERS 37. Marke the vpright man and behold the iust for the end of that man is peace THese are worthy the marking and seeing and the end they come vnto is worth the hauing for they are vpright and iust men and their end is peace By the vpright and iust man wee may vnderstand the man that is godly both in habit of minde and behauiour or good both in heart and conuersation and by peace the Prophet meaneth tranquilitie here and eternall rest from our labours in heauen this tranquilitie is of minde and in Christ for in the world we shall haue affliction Iohn 16.33 The effect of all is the prosperitie of the wicked doth quickly come and suddenly passe but the peace of the righteous comes in their latter end and continues world without end Where the Prophets meaning is that the godly must first meete with troubles and then haue peace first sowe in teares and then reape in ioy Psal 126.5 and first be racked and then deliuered Heb. 11.35 so much he giues vs to learne in this verse for the tenure that Christians hold by is the Crosse and this Crosse of Christians triumpheth not here here all that will liue godly must suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3.12 and from afflictions not from our beds of case we are taken to heauen for through many afflictions as through the straight gate we must passe thither Acts 14.22 and great reason we should climbe with some difficultie this mountaine of blisse Psal 15.1 for why should not we the members of Christ be like our head as well in his crowne of thornes as in his crowne of glory and as willingly in his cup as in his precious saluation or how can we thinke that God should wipe away our teares in another life when wee haue shed none in this Apoc. 21.4 and how can we be taken out of miserie when here wee know no woe Affliction then being both our beginning and middle as peace is our end if wee be right Christians our way to heauen is marked out vnto vs and the markes of our direct way thither are persecutions in this world before wee can obtaine eternall life in the world to come Mar. 10.30 But doe wee swimme in delights that should swim through a Sea of burning glasse Exod. 15.2 Is our beginning peace are our mid-dayes all in peace that is haue we perpetuall peace and quietnesse in our bodies and soules goods and good name when peace in all these is promised at our end not before and after our warfare accomplished not while we are in the field then wee goe not as we are directed by our markes to saluation It is a narrow way of little ease and wee are in a broad way of pleasures Mat. 7.13.14 it is vp-hill thither and wee goe downe-hill that is not toward it but from it and it is a way of many troubles but we liue at ease in Sion By all this we may well know that we are out of that one right plaine way to life Where on the other side if in our names we suffer for our zeale in the Law if we mourne in our soules for the sinnes we behold in the world and cannot master in our selues if we will loose our goods rather then a good conscience in any commandement and put not vp the sword of the spirituall battaile till corruption be done away which will neuer be whiles we be here Rom. 8.7 Gal. 5.17 wee know by this our way to happinesse so painfull and troublesome that we are not far from the kingdome of God And so we may conclude that they are fooles and not wise who thinke those best that are at best ease here those freest from misery that are furthest from troubles But what Oxe is likest to come first to the Butchers axe That which is fed in the best pastures or which is kept in the barest grounds Surely the fat Oxe is neerer the slaughter then that which is kept low for store or seruice So Christians fatted with ease and pampered with the pleasures of life are in greater danger of the Butcher of Hell then they that are kept low with troubles and haue the World for their enemie and not at their will as Satans stalled men haue And here let all that are oppressed of those fat kine of Bashan that feede in the Mountaines of Samaria Am. 4.1 all that are thrust at by the fat and strong sheepe of these Worldly pastures Ezech. 34.21 All that are troden downe by the mighty and proud that so spreade among vs neuer faint in their troubles or when they suffer for righteousnes in so direct away to Heauen goe backe with feare and discouragement because of these beginnings For peace will come at least when their end comes for their end is peace Hetherto serues that comfortable and most sweet exhortation of our Sauiour Christ to the Christians of his time and in them to vs at this day Feare yee not them which kill the body and are not able to kill the soule but feare him who is able to destroy both soule and body in Hell Math. 10.28 Because the heart of man will euer feare some thing Christ telleth vs whom wee should feare and what that wee may not feare where there is no cause nor where there is cause hee senselesse At any hand hee will not haue vs to feare man too much for that is a note of them that feare him too little And if we neede not to feare mortall man liuing in the true feare of the immortall God what cause is there that wee should bee shaken with their wrongs as leaues shaken with the winde when they are so mooued against vs For when they haue done their worst peace shall come the more they force vs the sooner they send vs out of our houses of clay to our house aboue and what harme is it to die once that wee may liue euer Yet they that are so cruelly bent to harme vs haue but a borrowed power ouer vs and wee no more Masters of our liues then the least Spider is of theirs which by permission can kill them assoone and deadly as by power giuen them they can kill vs. Which being well and rightly considered how weake is our faith and how little worth that will bee so much dismaide with the silly blasts of simple men whose power is mortall and bounded by a higher power Some in a little thunder from the Court turne as drinke in a vessell not keeping their righteousnesse longer then they can quietly hold it with the good liking of greatnesse and some if they bee but threatned by these men of might fall downe as if they were killed by them But hee that lookes for peace from him that can giue it and vp to him from whom onely
THREE SERMONS PREACHED BY THAT LEARNED and reuerend Diuine Doctor EEDES sometimes Deane of WORCESTER For their fitnesse vnto the present time now published by ROBERT HORN Minister of Gods WORD The seuerall titles and Texts follow on the next page ECCLES 12.10 The Preacher sought to finde out acceptable words and that which was written was vpright euen words of truth LONDON Printed by G. M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith and are to be sold at the Golden Lyon in Pauls Churchyard 1627. The Christians Admission and foundation in Gods houshold The Text. EPHES. 2.19 20 21 22. Yee are no more strangers and forreiners but fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God And are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone c. The Christians Guide to a wise Conuersation EPHES. 5.15 16. Take heede that yee walke circumspectly not as fooles but as wise Redeeming the time for the dayes are euill The short prosperitie of the wicked and the Happy estate of the IVST PSAL. 37.35 36 37. I haue seene the wicked in great power and spreading himselfe like a greene Bay-tree Yet hee passed away and loe hee was not yea I sought him but he could not be found Marke the perfect man and behold the vpright for the end of that man is peace THE PVBLISHER to the READER GOOD Reader the substance of these Sermons was long since preached by a reuerend and learned Deane Doctor Eedes Deane of Worcester which being giuen me in sundry broken and cast papers after his death I perused at my times of leasure and perceiuing they might be of vse to many by Printing I was very vnwilling to engrose them for priuate vse from publique benefit And that made mee thus to set them together as I could with some supply where any thing was wanting and where the reading was troublesome with some small alteration Thou hast them therefore not altogether as they were preached but as I could copie them from the Authors first lines They concerne the times we liue in as directly and particularly as if they had bin set vnto them by the Preacher If any thing here set downe may any whit further thy walking in the way of grace I thinke my labour this way well paid for God blesse thy reading in this and other good Bookes specially in the Booke of God for which I pray who am Thine in the Lord Iesus Christ ROBERT HORN THE CHRISTIANS ADMISSION into the houshold of GOD and his foundation in the same EPHES. 2.19 20 21 22. Yee are no more strangers and forreiners but fellow Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God And are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord In whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the spirit YEE are no more strangers and forreiners but Citizens c. Great was the goodnesse of God in creating great in continuing the world for mans sake his power in the one was more then the wisest of the world could expresse his loue in the other is more then the best of Christians can conceiue but neither was the creation of the world more then the election of his Church nor the continuing of the one which is great beyond the preseruation of the other which is greatest It was much that he created the world of nothing more that he redeemed it of nothing the one he did for vs when we were his owne and that without cost the other when we were his enemies but not without the death of his onely sonne Therefore how much the greater a benefit it was that God should saue vs then that he should make vs that we should be borne anew then that we should be borne so much the better it were for vs not to be borne then not to be chosen and not to be then not to be of his Church Wherein howsoeuer Iacob had a priuiledge and Iudah the prerogatiue so that they were chosen as the Lillie before the flowers of the field as the sheepe before all the beasts of the earth as the Vine before all the trees of the Forest as the Doue before all the birds of the aire and as his peculiare people before all the Nations of the world yet was the benefit to the Gentiles no lesse and the mercy of God to them a great deale more that they which were no people should bee called a holy people and which were wild by nature should by grace become naturall and legitimate branches in the true Oliue which is the Church of God For which cause the Apostle in this place commendeth to the Ephesians and in them to vs not onely the estate of their calling in Christ but the ground and end thereof in him In the speaking whereof that I goe no farther then the words lead me three things may well and chiefely be obserued as first the calling of the Gentiles secondly their foundation being called and thirdly their building vp In their calling wee are to consider from whence and to what they were called in their foundation by whom and vpon whom they were laid and in their building vp how and to what end they were built They were called from being strangers and forreiners to be citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God They were laid by the Prophets and Apostles vpon Christ and they did grow for the manner as coupled together and for the end to bee a holy Temple in the Lord and the habitation of God by the spirit For the first there is no one thing that doeth more mooue a man to consider what hee is then to remember what hee was So great a light to our iudgements doeth this light of comparing our selues with our selues bring and so deepe an impression in our hearts doeth the conscience of that which is past being set to the present make For as there is no misery greater then to haue beene happy so is it not the least part of happinesse to remember that we haue beene miserable Adam the better hee was in Paradise the worse hee was out contrarily the Gentiles the further they were from the Couenant promise the greater was their benefit in it And therefore as the Church of Ephesus was bidden to remember from whence shee was fallen Apoc. 2.5 that remembring her great fall she might sorrow and bee more ashamed then if she had neuer beene mounted so high in that loue which the Apostle there calleth her first loue verse 4. so here the Ephesians are bidden to remember to what they were raised as from being Gentiles in the flesh and strangers in Israel to bee worshippers in spirit and of the Israel of God that they might thinke more highly of that excellent estate to which they were called and in him
greater wisedome is required of vs and must be vsed by vs for our auoiding of the infection of that corrupt fellowship and misgouernment that like venome sheds it selfe vpon all that come neere it So farre off we must be because the dayes are euill from being euill as they are that wee must take the more paines and heede to be good And here we should rather goe alone in the narrow way then follow a multitude to doe euill Exod. 23.2 If it be of the fashion to be euill we must be like vnto Christ and resemble good Christians who doe not fashion themselus like vnto this world Rom. 12.2 but are in their Masters fashion and conforme to him But some will doe as the world doth and goe whither the most lead them and whither is that euen to the house where the dead are Pro. 9.18 and what to doe to be mad with the company to be baited with their allurements and to eate of such things as please them but no example should preuaile so farre though of thousands that so doe as to draw vs into wayes of wickednesse with follies children and if we would not be damned with such mates we must not follow their damnable wayes their pipes of smoake and pots of excesse Againe some feare not the contagious aire of any companie why what is their confidence No company say they can doe vs hurt Can it not and why can it not hurt them Is it because they are already so bad that no company can make them worse or haue they forgotten what company was able to doe against Peter himselfe a farre holier man then themselues in Caiaphas hall Mat. 26.70 72 74. Likewise how it preuailed against righteous Lot vertuous Ioseph and Dauid Gods owne King If these were intangled shall they goe free if these carried with them a smatch of the company that yet they liked not shall they that runne desperately vpon the sharpe of this worldly fellowship and take pleasure in it keepe their state still It cannot be and therefore to make my end here I beseech you remember your great danger and forget not your holy calling in these euill dayes so euill that you may not bee moued from your hope for this cause take vnto you the whole armour of God that yee may be able to resist in the euill day and hauing finished all things stand fast Eph. 6.13 The God of power giue you to bee so minded and to this God the Father with his holy Sonne Christ Iesus and the Spirit of both three persons in Trinitie one God in vnitie be rendred all glory dominion and honour now and euer Amen FINIS THE SHORT PROSPERITY of the Wicked AND THE HAPPIE ESTATE of the IVST PSAL. 37. Ver. 35 36 37. I haue seene the wicked in great power and spreading himselfe like a greene Bay-tree Yet he passed away and loe hee was not yea I sought him but he could not be found Marke the perfect man and behold the vpright for the end of that man is peace I Haue seene the wicked strong c. There are two things obseruable in this Scripture the vnstable prosperity of the wicked vers 35 36. and the certaine and constant felicitie of the righteous vers 37. Albeit that the wicked man be neuer so strong and in the pride of his heart spread abroad like a greene Bay-tree neuer so faire yet hee suddenly passeth and is little marked he vanisheth speedily and is as little remembred whereas the iust and vpright man though his life be a kinde of warfare on earth findes peace at the last and after his red euening a faire day followeth Mat. 16.2 This is the sum and scope of these three verses A point if euer necessary now most needfull for our present times and state and such as can neuer be too much vrged or enough considered specially since it is a thing incident to the best to looke but on the outside of things and to measure the secret iudgements of God with the scant yard of his outward blessings whereas indeede his very chastenings are blessings and that which we account blessing but a fatning to the slaughter for not to say any thing of meere flesh and bloud who say in their hearts there is no God Psal 14.1 or at the best no Prouidence of God Quòd malis benè est bonis malè seeing it goeth well with those that are euill and ill with those that are good it is a temptation greater then the very children of God can ouercome or resist as long as they are cloathed with this earthly and mortall tabernacle to see the wicked so greatly and high to rise aboue the head of the righteous and to haue not a large measure but such an ouer-measure of these commodities and blessings that they so much want whose godlinesse notwithstanding hath the promise of the life present and not onely of the life to come 1 Tim. 4.8 for albeit godlinesse be great of it selfe I doe not say riches but gaine and haue enough in it selfe to commend it for it selfe to all that are godly-wise yet I know not how it commeth to passe that we praise the thing but labour for the reward and stand more vpon the fruit then the conscience of a good worke We can be content with the old people and children of Israel to giue an eare to the Commandement of louing the Lord and of fearing him and swearing by his name as we finde it of record in Deuteronomie chapter 6 8. but our chiefe respect and speciall eye is to the promises there spoken of as the prolonging of our dayes in the Land our increase therein and prosperitie in the blessings thereof our hauing of Cities which we builded not houses full of goods which wee filled not Wels which wee digged not Vineyards and Oliue-trees which wee planted not Deut. 6.2 3 10 11. We can be content to seeke the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse Mat. 6.33 but not in the first place and with our first care and our zeale will soone waxe cold if all other things be not added to vs. In a word we can be content to thinke that godlinesse is great riches but if the promises which it hath of this life be not presently performed to it we thinke wee haue clensed our hearts in vaine and washed our hands in innocencie Psalme 73.13 Howbeit the want of these outward things in the godly though it be a tentation very grieuous doth not so much trouble them as that they are poured out in so great plenty and fulnesse vpon the wicked for howsoeuer there are to be found that haue so farre profited in the Schoole of the crosse that they can suffer many things for Christ and for his name and testimony with great patience and sound ioy yet who is hee that is not moued beyond his patience and afflicted euen aboue the measure of his affliction to see the wicked not onely free from troubles in the
yet the Lord deliuereth him out of them all Psal 34.19 And the Apostle S. Paul speaking of the afflictions which came vnto him at Antiochia at Iconium and at Listri saith but from them al the Lord deliuered me 2 Tim. 3.11 The Church stories afford vs a large reading in this argument and the booke of God is plentifull in this matter also I haue spoken sufficiently hereof already for comfort But now if wee will haue our parts with iust and vpright men in these deliuerances and in their peace we must walke vprightly and by steps of righteousnesse come to receiue our parts in them with the people whom God will saue The Lord that promised his Angels to vs in our wayes Psal 91.11 hath made vs no promise of safetie by them in other wayes In the good way of a Christian life we are sure to be kept but it is the Diuell that tels vs wee shall be so in any way Math. 4.6 The vpright and iust men shall haue peace shall it therefore be well to the wicked Wee haue heard God by Salomon to say no and Esay saith there is no peace to the wicked Esa 57.21 that is none either with or for them Had Zimri peace who slew his Master 2 King 9.31 Iezebel that painted dogges-meate could tell he had nor And indeed what peace as Iehu said to Iehoram where Iezebel and her fornications the wicked and their wicked deedes are 2 King 9.22 Doe men gather grapes of thornes Math. 7.16 That is will the grape of peace grow vpon the thorne of wickednesse Let there be no roote among you saith Moses that bringeth foorth gall and wormewood Deut. 29.18 And why no such roote of bitternes among them He after giues the reason because there is no blessing in it it is that roote of sinne whose doome is the curse and whose end is to be burned Heb. 6.8 For he saith Moses when he heares the words of the curse blesseth himselfe in his heart saying I shall haue peace though he walke in the stubbornes of his heart and adde drunkennesse to thirst But shall it bee so Shall he haue peace that walketh in his sinnes stubbornely No saith that man of God the Lord will not be mercifull to him but the wrath of the Lord and his ielousie shall smoake against him and euery curse that is written in the booke of the law shall light him till it haue put out his name from vnder heauen Deu. 29.19.20 Therefore it is but the poison of flattery a poison which striketh to the heart that perswadeth the sinner that he may liue in sin and die in peace For God by Ezechiel telles vs that seeing he hath so done he shall die the death and his blood shall bee vpon him Ezech. 18.13 And how can wee thinke that hauing had all our life time warre with God in our sinnes we should easily bee reconciled to him on our death bead Yet fooles and vnwise so thinke or what is their hope when they lie a dying Surely their hope is as the dead hope of a Malefactor in prison who puts of the getting of his pardon till the Iudge be come to condemne him But we are called to a better hope let vs therefore walke as the vpright man and not put off as sinners so shall our end be peace when theirs shall bee in destruction In this mind and course though the world shall count vs vnhappie yet we must thinke our selues and the wise will iudge vs the most happie men And I pray you who was more happie Lazarus going from his sores and pouerty to heauen or the rich man that went frō his purple and delicate fare to Hell Luk. 16.22 23. We say that the end makes all Philosophy saith that no man is either happie or miserable that is truely so before his end If we cannot bee so wise as Christians should yet it is shame to be more foolish thē the heathen were And what reason then to iudge of men by their present states when it is not the present but future nor this temporal but that other eternall condition of blisse or vnhappines that must giue vs our iust standard or measure in these matters And therefore it is said to good purpose by the Prophet further in this verse Marke and behold c. These two words are added as a bridle to keepe vs in that we runne not into rash judgement when wee heare of the many troubles of the godly and of the few of those that offend euen with purpose of heart to doe wickedly For great foolishnesse is bound vp to our iudgements so farre foorth as wee consist of flesh and see as naturall men our reason is exceeding weake and for our naturall light what is it but darkenesse and errour And therefore great need we haue of this bridle or bit from hastie opinion Great need I say lest wee binde a false note not onely to mans courses which we vnderstand not but euen to Gods most wise counsels which no man can know For this cause the Prophet bids vs to marke and behold as it were to looke with both eyes diligently to consider and faithfully to lay vp the experience that we gather in such high matters not to take things as they appeare presently but as the end leaues them When a man runnes very fast and swiftly his eyes will dazle at things so will they not when hee goes faire and softly or with a deliberate pace In like manner let vs goe deliberately and wisely forward in our iudgements and they will not dazell at the prosperitie of the wicked that are suddenly set vp and where others make more haste then good speede to salute them as happie wee will take leasure and time to our opinion of them and say their end is not yet From hence wee learne not to iudge any man by his present outward estate to be happie or miserable For whatsoeuer we see in men to day may be much altered to morrow and the last may be first Matth. 20.16 And this true iudgement in things and of persons if it were rightly considered and if wee would wisely iudge of them by their ends and not as they seeme would stay vs from being offended to a fretting at the wicked for their sudden prosperitie or to a condemning of the iust for their present distresse The contrary must needes make vs stumble in iudgement and to be offended with our troubles when they continue long I say stumble in iudgement for what man if hee should iudge of Iobs election by that which he sometimes spake and of Dauids by that which he once did the one when hee spake so vnaduisedly against God Iob 3.6.10.13 chapters the other when he lay in so foule sheetes hauing defiled his bed with adultery and the murther of his dearest seruant Vriah 2 Sam. 11.4 5.15.17 or if he should weigh Ieremie at the rate of that which he spake in his distemper and Christ himselfe at
that which as man in the hotest fornace of his passion he complained of his to his father namely that he had forsaken him Ier. 12.1 20.14.15 16 17 18. Mat. 27.40 What man I say if hee should thus iudge should not condemne euen the generation of Gods children and the sonne himselfe who would thinke that Moses and Aaron two old men the one fourescore the other aboue Exod. 7.7 could going to Pharaoh with a little rod in their hand bring the children of Israel out of Egypt in despight of Pharaoh the King thereof Exod. 6.26 yet they refused not the seruice at Gods commandement being old men and furnished with simple meanes where if they had rested on no more then that which they saw or was present they would neuer haue beleeued they could haue forced a great King in his owne Kingdome to let his prisoners goe but they saw him and in him that was inuisible great saluation and greater power then either Pharaoh or all the Pharaohs of the earth could resist and therefore suspended all iudgement of flesh to the contrary Whose hart would not faile him if he should trust his eyes to see the successe of a battaile to hang vpon a youth fighting hand to hand with a great armed Gyant and man of war not with speare or shield but with a sling in his hand and fiue smooth stones 1 Sam. 17.33.40 Saul doubted how it could be but Dauid doubted not ver 33. Saul could beleeue no more then he saw Dauid beleeued God and had seene his power before ver 35.36 which hee also then saw in a sort waiting for the end and this end was it that his eyes were vpon by faith by which he receiued it before it came Gideons men that were left were but 300. but his enemies lay in the valley like Grashoppers Iudg. 7.6.12 and what must these three hundred haue in their hands nothing but Trumpets in one hand and emptie pitchers with lamps in another and what must they doe blow their Trumpets and breake their pitchers and what shall ensue when this is done The Lord will set variance in the hoste and setting euery mans sword vpon his neighbor cause them to slie ver 16 20 22. And now who measuring these things with the eye can thinke that so few should be able to driue so many with so weake pursuers But Gideon looked to the end and staied not in the meanes and so marked and beheld till the end came So Ioshua before him must breake downe the wals of Ierico but with what warlike engine with what rain of iron must he doe it with blowing seuen Trumpets of rams hornes seuen times with a shout and with no other power Iosh 6.13 15 16. God spake it Ioshua beleeued it and the wals of the Citie at the appointed time fell downe ver 20. To heape vp more examples would be too long and needelesse in so plaine a matter The consideration of this that hath bin spoken as it is a reproofe of all hasty and rash iudging of matters and persons before the time so it cannot but minister great consolation to the godly where there is little in the meanes and time to giue them hope for though presently they can see nothing that is for their helpe and though in troublesome difficulties all things seemingly make against them yet comfort and deliuerance will come from one place or another Hest 4.14 And so wee haue heard how we may faile in iudgement if wee iudge things or persons rashly or before the time Now as wee may erre in iudgement so we may be offended at the things that come if we wait not for the end that is offer not our obedience in waiting for it which would be considered of those who if the Lord suspend his answer and helping of them after some time that they haue praied for a hearing doe through an impatient spirit forsake all both attendance and hopes And here some who can bee violent at first and for some time are euen cut to the heart when they are put to a longer day but to be vehement a while and not importunate long for the good things that we aske according to the good minde of God in his word is besides the losse of our labour a deserued falling from the fruit of our requests which by the meanes of such faintings must needes faile vs. To remedie all this we must wait continually by the word for our enlargement in troubles when they tarry long But besides this sinne of impatience in matters that concerne our selues wee may sinne against God by fretting against others namely the wicked that are lift vp if wee fondly measure them by their present estate and not wisely by their end Dauid because hee once measured them with the wrong measure of that that was present confesseth that hee was foolish and ignorant this way Psal 73.22 And how many besides him otherwaies no ill men hath this false interpretation of happinesse in her short and quicke blaze such as she maketh in wicked men put into intollerable fits of choller against God How much haue they bin offended and how ill haue they taken it that the wicked should fare so well and the godly no better It appeareth by the first verse of this Psalme that in Dauids time many were ouercome of this temptation who in other things could stand sure and all because they forgat the wicked mans miserable end and the happy end of the righteous But this I touched sufficiently in the beginning because it is the maine scope of this whole Psalme and therefore I leaue it and all that hath bin spoken besides to God and to the worke of his grace who is able to build you further and to giue you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified Acts 20.32 The God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus the great shepheard of the sheepe through the bloud of the euerlasting couenant make you perfect in all good workes to doe his will working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ to whom be praise for euer and euer Amen FINIS