is offended and I burne not This fruit of his compassion and tender affection to Gods children did more especially appeare when he heard of heavy newes out of Bohemia Hungary Germany the Palatinate c. He was then so affected therewithall as good Nehemiah was when he heard by Hanani one of his brethren that the remnant of the Iewes were in great affliction that the wall of Ierusalem was broken downe And afflict him also and the gates thereof were burnt with fire For then he sate downe and wept and mourned certaine dayes and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven 3 It did also no lesse evidently appeare His compassion in visiting the sick by his diligent and carefull visiting of the sicke and such persons and families as had some more heavie and extraordinary hand of God upon them He was held and reputed one of the best spirituall Physitians in all the countrey If any were troubled in conscience afflicted in soule for sin molested by Satan terrified by Gods judgements Happy then was he that could get M. Bruen to come unto him his very presence was some ease and refreshing unto them as to that godly and worthy Preacher M. Dickons on his death-bed His godly exhortations wholesome admonitions divine instructions sweet words of comfort but especially his faithfull and fervent prayers were many times as so many gracious remedies against their grievous miseries and maladies And to speak as the truth is as his gifts were rare and paines great in the performance of these duties so was the issue and successe thereof through the blessing of God many times answerable and effectuall either for some full release or some reliefe in due season Hereof he hath witnesses enow over all the countrey and many he hath written downe of such and such mercies obtained of God by his good meanes for such and such persons the glory where of he doth ever in great humility ascribe unto the Lord giving him all hearty thankes and praise that would manifest his great mercy grace power and goodnesse to so weake creatures by so weak meanes His antipathy against profanenesse Now as he held a holy Sympathy with the godly so had he a great antipathy against the profane both persons and fashions customes and courses of the world He knew well that the fashion of this world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever He knew well also that not onely he himselfe but all true Christians are forbid by the holy Apostle In garish fashions to fashion or conforme themselves to this world and injoyned to be transformed in the spirit of their minde that they may prove what is that good that acceptable and perfect will of God And therefore he could never be brought into any love or liking of the garish foolish vaine and new-fangle fashions of the world in attire or other ridiculous gestures and formall complements of the profane of this world but did in his heart abhorre them and in his life utterly shun and avoid them Being once at an high Sheriffes feast where there were some Lords Spirituall and Temporall as they are called and many other Knights and gentlemen of great place there was an health begun by one of the Lords In profane customes as in drinking of healths to the Prince which after the manner was entertained and maintained with a great deale of ceremoniall solemnity As it went along and drew neare unto him many observing what he would say or doe he cast out in a moderate manner some words of dislike to this effect Here is a solemne service to the Prince yet did he never require it nor will ever give you any thankes for it And when one pressed him to pledge and drinke to the Princes health he made this milde and gentle answer onely You may drinke to his health and I will pray for his health and drink for mine owne Nos cramus pro salute imperatoris c Tertull ad Scapul c 2. and so I wish you may doe for yours And so he put it off and passed it over never sorting with them nor yeelding to any one of their solemne ceremonies in that act He did beare a more generous minde than to be brought in subjection unto every idle fancy and foolery or to conforme himselfe unto the humours and customes of profane men The policy and power of Satan in healthing Certainly in this drinking of healths as now it is practised at our gentlemens tables there is the very power and policy of Satan set a work in them as to take up the time of their repast with such vanities and provocations to sin and to draw them to delight themselves in such base works of the flesh after the humour and pleasure of carnall men that all memory and mention of God or goodnesse may bee kept out and that no speech of the word or works of God at all may be had amongst them M. Bolton his Directions to wilke with God pag. 200 201 202 203 c. Had I not beene well prevented by the godly labours of a reverent and worthy Divine and my ancient and faithfull friend M. Bolton who hath spoken much both out of the Fathers and other good Authors against this drinking of healths and that to so very good effect and purpose I had taken a little more pains at this time to provide some rods of rebuke for this sinne purposing to whip it and scourge it round about the table in the sight of our bowzing gentleman that take such and so much pleasure in it But now I forbeare and referre them to his Booke praying them to read advisedly what he hath written learnedly of this matter CHAP. LVIII NOw to proceed As this godly Gentleman had and held an antipathy against all vaine and foolish fashions and humours of the profane men of the world so did he especially against the profane customes and corruptions usually maintained in great houses His antipathy against the profane customes and corruptions of great houses He offereth a remedy so as he had an holy indignation against them and would not spare where he had any hope to speed to admonish his friends by word or writing for the reformation of the same He knew it was written Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sinne upon him An evident proofe of his carefulnesse and faithfulnesse in this kinde he hath left us under his own hand in a portion and part of a letter directed to a Gent. one of his neare cosens His words be these The comparison I used was with M. Wilbraham of Woodhey to whom God gave repentance two or three yeares before his death by the Ministery of my B. H. His godly Letter for Christian admonition and reformation I have often compared you Cosen to Thomas Wilbraham whom the people of
a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes So Abigail may draw David by her wisedome and wholesome counsell from his bloody passion and intended cruelty and cause him to repent and refraine yea to blesse the Lord for her comming and counsell too So was Monica Augustines mother humbled and reclaimed by her maide So Monica vid. Aug lib. Conf. l. 9. cap. 8. calling her Meribibulam So did Augustine in a Rhetorick Lecture convert Alipius by a similitude taken from the vaine games wherein hee immoderately delighted Alipius thinking that Augustine aimed at him whereas Augustine then did not so much as thinke of him which made Augustine to admire the wisdome and goodnesse of God who was working graciously though secretly for Alipius his correction and reformation when neither of them had any thought of it August confes l. 6. cap. 7. Vt apertè tibi Domine tribueretur ejus correctio per me quidem illam sed nescientem operatus es That his conversion or reformation might evidently be ascribed unto thee O Lord Thou didst worke it indeed by me but by me not knowing what I did at that time either for him or from thee To which purpose hee addeth this also a little after Vtens tu Domine scientibus c nescientibus Possidon in viâ—â—… Aug. cap. 15. ordine quo nosti ille ordo justus est de corde lingua mea carbones ardentes operatus es quibus mentem spei bonae adduceres tabescentem sanares Thou O Lord using men both witting and unwitting in what order thou knowest and that order is just didst raise up out of my heart and my tongue burning coales wherein thou mightest so scorch the minde of good hope that thou mightest heale it And so did the Lord inflame the heart of this young Gentleman with burning coales of his Word and Spirit which he raised and reached out unto him from the heart and mouth of his companion and friend that the drosse of Popish errors was consumed and his soule so healed that the treasure of Gods Word was ever after better esteemed and entertained by him And here I could wish with all my heart A worthy example for young Gentlemen that our young Gentlemen following the good example of these two both in the University and Countrey would have more care and make more conscience of their company and so frame their studies and courses that either by doing good upon their fellow students and companions or receiving good from them by converting some from their errors and confirming others in the truth See Aschams Schoolemaster p. 21. by causing some to returne from their wicked way and others to turne unto God and walke in his wayes they might shew forth better fruits of love one to another and reape sweeter comforts in their happy fellowship and society one with another Examp. sir Iohn Cheke D. Redman But I will turn my wishes into prayers unto God for them and for their Tutors and Governours that have charge and should have care to looke unto them and this is all the good that I can do them Aug. ad Festum Ep. 167. Nam phrenetici nolunt ligari lethargici nolunt excitari Sed perseveret c. CHAP. VI. He was much like Galeacius cap. 7. His proficiency at Oxford but small WHat and how great his proficiency was in learning during his abode in Oxford I cannot well tell only I conjecture it could not be much because the time was but short the meanes but small for his helpe and impediments many to his hurt and hinderance in his studies especially those two which are blocks in the way and great ones too and do dull the edge of many young Gentlemens desire and delight in Universitie studies namely idlenesse The causes of it and remisnesse at home in their fathers houses and ignorance of the true grounds of Grammar which they should have beene throughly acquainted withall in the countrey before they had beene sent up to the University Of this minde was Master Ascham Aschams Schoolemaster li. 2 in fine sometimes Schoolemaster to Queene Elizabeth who in his booke of training up of youth in the Countrey to make them fit for the University hath this saying to the same purpose As I began plainly and simply with my young Schollar So will I not leave him God willing untill I have brought him a perfect Schollar out of the Schoole and placed him in the University to become a fit Student for Logicke and Rhetoricke and so after to Physick Law or Divinity as aptnesse of nature advice of friends and Gods disposition shall leade him Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius Some unfitnesse for learning Plato lib. 3. de Repub. p. 425. Edit Steph. 1578. His sufficiency not great for great imployment cannot be made of every peece of timber neither is every mans metall of gold but some of silver some of brasse c. as Plato hath observed in setting forth the variety of mens natures and dispositions as they are fitted for diverse studies and imployments I will not say that this young Gentleman of whom we speake was in his naturall disposition of the best timber and temper to make a Schollar nor of the best metall to make a man of the best rank for great imployments but I am well assured that the Lord was pleased upon such grounds of nature and learning as he had given him to lay a good foundation of a better building begun in his youth and reared up in his riper age than all the gold and silver either of nature or of art could otherwise have purchased or provided for him It is the wisedome and goodnesse of our God when he will furnish men with his graces and imploy them in his service sometimes to neglect and passe by such as are noble by birth Yet such as God chose to shew his power in comely for their person excellent for parts both of nature and of learning and otherwise in mans judgement very accomplished persons for such and such places and to make choice of some other of a middle or a meane estate of inferiour parts and gifts and very unlikely in the eye of reason to compasse any great matters or performe any good services either to God or man And this he hath done formerly Calv. in Act. 1 26. and daily doth both in publike and in private persons and callings that all might know their sufficiency to be of God and the efficacy and fruit of all their desires and endeavours not of themselves but from him also that so as good reason is he that worketh all might have the glory of all both now and ever I have read of that admirable man Galeacius Caracciolus As in Galeacius Marquesse of Vice in Italy that being but a youth and a meane Schollar and little studied and but lately entered into the Schoole of Christian
short time he was so well provided and furnished with honest and faithfull godly and gracious servants both men and women that he had now as Paul saith Philemon had once a Church in his house And no marvell seeing for continuall supply there were many that were religious who would willingly offer themselves and make meanes to be admitted into his house and to do him service untill they were like Davids host a great host like the host of God 1 Chron. 12.22 A full houshold and gracious family where Husband and wife parents and children governours and servants are all either truly religious or at least such as do orderly and duly submit themselves to all duties of religion in the family Now for the ordering and using of his servants he did reckon of such as most faithfull ever unto him as he found ever most faithfull unto God as did Constantius when hee purged his Court. And such he did much esteeme and entirely affect as his brethren and fellow servants in and under Christ Jesus 2. For the using of his servants Yea he made them somtimes as his companions in his familiar and kinde usage of them sometimes as his counsellours to advise conferre consult and resolve with them in matters of conscience or of other importance somtimes as his comforters in afflictions and tentations that he might so receive some comfort and refreshing from them Some of speciall note as Old Robert Among the reft he had one of speciall note an old disciple like Mnason as a father in his family to the rest of his servants his name Robert Pasfield but better knowne by the name of old Robert a man utterly unlearned being unable to read a sentence or write a syllable yet was he so well taught of God that by his own industry and Gods blessing upon his minde and memory he grew in grace as he did in yeeres and became ripe in understanding and mighty in the Scriptures Yea he was so well acquainted with the history of the Bible and the summe and substance of every Book and Chapter that hardly could any ask him where such a saying or sentence were but he would with very little adoe tell them in what Book and Chapter they might finde it Insomuch that he became as a very profitable Index to the family to call to minde what they had learned and to recover what they had lost by slip of memory and not onely so but a godly Instructor and Teacher of young professors also to acquaint them with the Word and to exercise their hearts unto godlinesse by the precepts and examples thereof which he constantly did both at home and abroad as he had leisure and liberty so to do Now if that which I have often heard be true that Bonus Textualis is Bonus Theologus A good Text-man is a good Divine then may Old Robert in our countrey proceedings be allowed for a Divine and a Doctor also He had many other good parts in him a good gift in prayer and praise very willing and well able to conferre of good things carefull to heare the Word read or preached and to help his own and his friends memories by repetitions and some other means as of a strange Girdle which as I shall shew you he had framed for himself to that purpose The Girdle was of leather long and large Old Robert his Girdle for help of his memory so that for compasse it would go twice about him This for the help of his memory he divided into severall portions and parts as a Carpenter doth his Rule and allotteth every Booke of the Bible in their order to some of those divisions As Genesis to the first Exodus to the second c. Then for the distinction of the Chapters of every Booke he annexed a long point or thong unto the severall divisions and made knots by fives or tens thereupon to distinguish the chapters of that book he had also other either points or rushes to divide the chapters into their particular contents or severall parts or verses as occasion did require This instrument of his owne invention hee framed and used as others do their pen and writing for the better helpe of his understanding and reliefe of his memory in his hearing of the Word preached which he did with so good effect and fruit in observing all the points and Scriptures alleadged in a Sermon and binding them upon the points and partitions of his Girdle as he heard them that in repeating of the Sermon afterwards he himselfe had great benefit and many other professors much comfort and helpe by his handling of his girdle and fingering the points and divisions of it A matter of such wonder unto all that ever saw it and heard him repeat a Sermon by it that his worthy Master thought the girdle worthy to bee kept and reserved in his Study as a monument of Gods mercy and old Roberts both piety and industry that he might bee known to have beene neither idle nor unprofitable in partaking of the blessing of the ministery A reb uke to mindlesse and carelesse persons This man and his girdle shall rise up in judgement against many of greater place than himselfe who being both mindlesse in observing and carelesse in retaining what they heare or have heard in the preaching of the Word will neither stirre up the graces of God which are in them nor exercise the naturall parts aright which God hath given them nor practise any artificiall helpes of their owne or other mens invention for reliefe of their owne weaknesse both in minde and memory and for supply of other mens wants according as their necessities may require Hence also may we raise a just rebuke of many of better parts who having many helps both by arts and tongues Logick and learning Art of memory writing by characters or otherwise And to such as use not their skil and other faculties aright doe not yet set themselves and their gifts a worke in any good course to make the best benefit of that which they heare for themselves that so they might be more profitable unto others according to the places and callings wherein the Lord hath set them CHAP. XIX His familiar conversing with old Robert THis old Robert though but a servant yet being rich in grace his Master did so much esteeme and affect that he would as often as conveniently he could have him neare unto him he would often goe to the Hop-yard or threshing-flore where commonly his businesse lay to talk and conferre with him and sometime for his owne exercise to take some part and portion in the labour with him also This he did for their mutuall comfort and contentment in provoking one another to holy duties and communicating such things as they had read or heard for increase of godlinesse and goodnesse one in another Such is the nature and temper of humility and sincerity The master never a whit the more abased
this life such fruits of faith and love and such vertues of Christ in this Gentleman Many vertues of his to be observed as are well worthy both the observation and imitation of every true Christian 1. His compassion on the multitude being as sheep without shepheard when hee saw them erring from the wayes of God and like to perish for want of pasture expressing herein in some measure the holy affection of Christ Iesus And imitated 2 Secondly his free will offering unto the Lord of his owne substance and cost to provide his people of spirituall food and that with a cheerfull and free heart and hand like unto David who bought the threshing floore of Areunah at a price because he would not offer burnt offerings to the Lord of that which cost him nothing 3. Thirdly 1 Kin. 18.3.4 2 Chr. 35.2,3 4 his entertaining and maintaining Gods Ministers as Obadiah did the Lords Prophets besides his countenancing and encouraging of them as Iosiah did the Levites in the Lords service 4 Fourthly the exceeding joy and comfort that he took in setting forwards the Lords worke for the foundation and building up the shouse of God by his good example godly presence and holy practice in publike places and religious duties endeavouring to bring forth the head stone Zach. 4. â—7 as Zâ—rubbabell did with shootings crying Grace grace unto it 5 Fifthy his courage and constantâ—y in maintaining all good exercises of Religion against all oppositions of popish and profane persons Nehem 4 as did good Nehemiah in going on with the in building of the was of Jerusalem notwithstanding al the attempts and assaults of secret treacholy 〈◊〉 open hostility made against him 6 Sixthly his uprightnesse and suâ—oirity doing all that he did with an honest and good heart not to bee seene of men but to approve himself unto God in all things This worthy example thus decked and adorned with these jewels of grace For Gentlement to be rich in good workes I desire also to commend unto the due and serious consideration of such Gentlement and others as being rich in this world are yet poore and very poore in such good workes and had rather bestow an hundred pounds in building and beautifying their owne houses than an hundred pence towards the laying of the foundation or building up the walles or windowes of Gods house amongst them For patrons not to spoile the Chur. being bound to provide for it And to such also as being entrusted with the lands and livings of the Church for the maintenance of the Ministery and spirituall provision of Gods people doe notwithstanding turne their patronage into pillage and their devotion into sacriledge cutting short the Minister of his meanes and the people of their provision taking the wheat unto themselves and leaving the straw and chaffe unto them for their portion onely For prosane Gent. bestowing much upon their lusts nothing upon Gods service Neither would I have them to passe without gentle admonition also who had much rather spend much of their estate in maintaining idle and base persons to serve their owne lusts and satisfies the humour of a rude and profane people as many do their Horf-riders Faulkeners Huntsmen Lords of misrule Pipers and Minstrels rather to lead them and their followers both in their publikâ— assemblies and private families a dance about the Calfe than such a dance as David danced before the Arke with spirituall rejoycing in Gods mercies and inlarging of his owne and the people hearts in Gods praises Neither maintaining any Leyite at home And being utterly destitute of all meanes of grace both in assembly and family and nothing sensible of the spirituall famine that hath brought a loathsome leannesse into their soules they neither make any conscience nor will beat any cost Nor seeking after the word abroad to call on the Levites to bring in the Arke of God amongst them nor will seeke themselves nor suffer others that much desire to enter into the Kingdome of God to frequent those places and exercises of religion where the heavenly Manna the bread of life may be broken unto them CHAP. XXVIII ABout the yeare 1590. when he saw Mr. I. D. that having provided for the publike congregation a worthy Preacher whom they seemed much to admire for his gifts yet would not so much as thanke him for his pains the Preacher grew somewhat unwilling to bestow his labour any longer amongst them Hee in Christian policy Vpon their neglect of the publike Ministery began to withdraw the Preacher of the Word from the assembly to his owne family to make them more sensible of the want of it more carefull to seek it where they might finde it and more thankfull to God and his servants by whose meanes they did enjoy it and reape some fruit by it To which end and purpose he built him a Pulpit in a Chappel in his owne house and for a season maintained the Preacher there so that as hee saith himselfe hee had good company every Sabbath day He maintained the Preacher in his own family This company as I doubt not but it was much to his comfort so could it not bee but much to his cost also when amongst a multitude though some might come to the Chappell with good mindes to feed their soules yet others would bee as willing and ready to presse into the Hall to fill their bellies And yet was he well contented to be at this charge also for the increase of Religion and further of the Gospel But he could not long make such an inclosure of the Word nor so confine it to his private family for partly the publike necessity and partly the importunity of some Christian friends But after a while restored him to the publike assembly did worke so effectually upon him and prevaile so farre with him that hee yeelded up the Preacher to the publike assembly againe and so continued to maintaine him and other Preachers after him untill upon the death of the Incumbent God established a faithfull Pastor amongst them Let him if you please tell you thus much and the occasion thereof in his owne words The same Preacher being invited to a wedding at Peile The cause and occasion thereof preached there in the parlour for which Sermon he was much admired And then It was objected against me that I had committed a great sinne to keep such a worthy Preacher from the great congregation But I said none requested it nor gave him thankes when I brought him And so continued to maintaine the Minister And therefore he was unwilling to come amongst them But I was glad then to bring the Word of God againe unto them and so have continued till now that God hath planted M. Clark amongst us And here I thinke it not amisse seeing hee thus toucheth upon M. Clark in this businesse of providing the Parish of a faithfull and sufficient Ministery
charme he never so wisely Thus have we made it manifest that this gracious and Godly Gentleman was in his holy conversation full of mercy and full of good fruits All of which do taste and relish so much the better because they were seasoned with two other gracious qualities of that wisedome which is from above namely Equity and Syncerity for hee was without partiality and without hypocrisie According to that of the Prophet Micha He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to doe justlie and to love mercy and to walk humbly and uprightly with thy God And thus have we according to our purpose and promise taken a more speciall view of some parts and passages of this Gentlemans life wherein the gifts of Gods grace the vertues of Christ and the fruits of the Spirit did more eminently appear As first in his conversing with God and secondly in his conversation in the world And so wee come from the course of his life in the world and draw towards the end of his life namely his departure out of the world which was the third and last of those 3. generall heads which were proposed to be handled CHAP. LX. COncerning his departure out of this world 3. General Head His departure out of the world 1. Prepar 2. His Resol 3 His confidence 4. His const Psa 90.12 we propole divers things to be considered and observed First his preparation for it Secondly his patient resolution to Beare all the sharpe occurrents of it Thirdly his gracious confidence of a blessed and happy exchange after it Fourthly his happy constancy in the faith of Christ unto the end and in the end untill hee was put in possession of it and so obtained the end of his faith the salvation of his lonle in Christ Jesus Now for the first as his whole life was a meditation of death so was it also a continuall preparation for it For the Lord had taught him so to number his dayes that he did apply his heart unto wisdome I say both to be wise unto salvation and so wise also as to consider Wisedom Deut. 32.29 Iob. 14.14 and often think too upon his latter end So that all the dayes of his appointed time he did wait as Iob did till his change should come Al his studies and labours all his holy duties and services all his prayers and tears all his watchings and fastings all his desires and endeavors were especially bent and directed unto this end next unto Gods glory that he might so run that he might obtaine and so fight His preparation for death that he might overcome and in the end be more than a conquerour in him that loved him that is in Christ Jesus It was therefore his care and confidence ever so to live that he might never be affraid to dye yea so to live that he might desire to dye and to bee with Christ which is best of all even where he is and as he is for over Phil 1.23 Paulm in vita Amb. Possidon in vita Aug. As Paulinus hath recorded of Ambrose that being ready to dye he uttered these comfortable words unto his friends about him Non sic vivi ut pude no me inter vos vivere nec mori timeo quiu bonum habemus Dominum I have not so lived that I am ashamed to live amongst you neither am I affraid to dye because we have a good Lord. His more especiall preparation for his latter end His more speciall preparation in ten speciall duties consisted in these holy duties and heavenly exercises 1. To deny himself his wit his will his reason and affection 2. To renounee the world and to we are himselfe from the love of it and from all the pleasures profits honours and favours of the fame 3. To set and settle his affections on the things which are above placing his heart where his head Christ is 4. To take all his decayes of nature his bodily infirmities want of vigour and strength abatement of naturall heate and moisture to be certeyne Impressions of his mortality and evident Summons to a dissolution 5. To make all his spirituall rejoycings and refreshings in the estate of grace to bee pledges and earnests as it were of heavenly and everlasting joy and happinesse in the estate of glory 6. To consider that unto the godly death is but a passage unto life a dissolution of soule and body for a season which afterwards shall bee restored again in greater beauty and glory at the resurrection 7. To observe that death puts an end to all sins and sorrows to all temptations and afflictions and brings us into the possession of an heavenly inheritance where the true treasure is in abundance where also there are rivers of pleasures and fulnesse of joy for ever more 8. To meditate that here we are but strangers and pilgrims having here no continuing city but seeking one to come that heaven is our home and that whiles we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord and that Ierusalem which is above is the city of the Saints and mother of us all 9. To conferre and talke with his godly friends of the day of death and time of his departure out of this world even in the middest of all other comforts as Christ himself did with Moses and Elias in the holy Mount of his departure that is of his death at Ierusalem and as Austin had much holy and heavenly communication with his mother Monica Aug Cons l. 9. t. 10. and shee with him to the like purpose 10. Lastly to watch and pray with oyle in our Lamps and our lights burning taking every day for our last day Mat. 25.4 2 Tim. 2.21 Mat. 25.23 and so bee ready and prepared for our Masters worke for our Masters comming and for our owne reckoning Thus much of the means which he used and duties which he performed to prepare himself for his departure out of this world Now for his patient resolution to beare all the sharp occurrents of it As hee had obtained mercy of the Lord to bee faithfull in doing his will So had he also to be patient and resolute in suffering and abiding his good pleasure both in life and death To which end the Lord had given him a great measure of spirituall strength Phil. 4.13 Eph. 6.13 that he was able to doe in a manner all things in Christ which strengthened him and hee had furnished him also with that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the whole armour of God whereby he might be able to stand fast in the evill day whether of tentation or affliction against all adverse power that might assaile him We read of that faithfull servant of Christ Chrysostome when hee was grievously persecuted by Eudoxia the Empresse that the Lord did give him such courage and resolution that he feared nothing which she could doe unto him though shee did threaten never