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A33971	Par nobile two treatises, the one concerning the excellent woman, evincing a person fearing the Lord to be the most excellent person, discoursed more privately upon occasion of the death of the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Hobart late of Norwich, from Pro. 31, 29, 30, 31 : the other discovering a fountain of comfort and satisfaction to persons walking with God, yet living and dying without sensible consolations , discovered from Psal. 17, 15 at the funerals of the Right Honourable the Lady Katherine Courten, preached at Blicklin in the county of Norfolk, March 27, 1652 : with the narratives of the holy lives and deaths of those two noble sisters / by J.C.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Excellent woman.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Light in darkness.	1669 (1669)	Wing C5329; ESTC R26441	164,919	320

inclined to some excess in passion and in the vanity of his youth had contracted an habit of swearing of the evil of which being convinced he found it yet difficult wholly to leave it and as a means in order to it injoyned his Lady privily to pinch his Arm when she heard any Oath slip from him to which reproof he would ordinarily with a great deal of kindness reply I thank thee my dear Saint and by this means was at length able wholly to abstain from that vice and to fear an Oath unweariedly to desire and to be present at private Fasts and other Religious duties severely to reprove others especially his servants and admonish his friends of those errors which had formerly been too much his own pleasure and delight In short by the blessing of God upon the publick Ministry of the Word upon which he now diligently attended and the more private means of this Excellent Lady This worthy person before he died was brought to such a good hope through grace for several moneths without perturbations to look upon death every day making its nearer approaches to him and at last not without testimony of a true hope in God quietly to commit his Soul into the hands of his blessed Redeemer A person who did remarkably serve his generation and doubtless he had been an eminent instrument if it had pleased God to have granted him a longer life being one who might erre through prejudice or misapprehension but of that nobleness of temper height of courage and spirit that he never valued cost nor wanted an heart to go through with any thing of the goodness and justice of which he was once convinced and to whom excepting Academical learning which his younger years were not patient of nothing was wanting which could constitute adorn and accomplish a brave and ga●ant man But I am digressed and must return we have hitherto only viewed this noble Lady in her Conjugal capacity as she stood concerned in her husband We must now view her in her Parental relation for God had not given her a barren womb nor dry breasts though indeed for the further triall of her faith and patience he made her ordinarily to bring forth to the grave● ●he was the Mother of Nine Children of which only one that a daughter lived to marriageable years the rest died all either in their infancy or before they had arrived to their years of Puberty The young Lady who was the only Coal God had left her alive was afterwards married to an Honourable and worthy person Sir John Hobart Baronet the heir of her Fathers honour and Family by whom it pleased God after some years to give her a Son after which this young and noble Lady did not long survive being immaturely taken away by the Small-pox many years before the death of our Noble Lady nor did her only Childe long survive its mother so that she lived to see her wise God stripping her of every branch that had sprang out of her root to let her know he had a better name for her than that of Sons and Daughters Concerning her deportment to her other Children whiles she enjoyed them I can say nothing having not had the advantage of knowing her till some years had past after God had deprived her of them Only may rationally presume it not unlike to what she shewed to the only surviver For her I could say much if while she had a being with us by her pious disposition affable and ingenuous temper and most vertuous conversation in short by whatsoever accomplishments could perfect and adorn a young and Vertuous Lady she had not both approved her self to all to whom she was known and also commended her betwixt whose knees she was educated to such an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of feminine perfection The instruction of her Father which she heard and the Law of her Mother which she did not forsake proved an Ornament of grace unto her head and as chains of Gold and Orient Pearls about her neck And indeed as there was nothing wanting in nature to accomplish that young and excellent Lady so her vertuous Mother had resolved that nothing should be wanting which either her own care or the Art of others could help her to Nor did this Rare Lady shew more of a Mother to her while she lived than of a Christian Mother when it pleased God to extinguish this light of her eyes and quench this only coal which he had left her taking her death with that due sense which became so tender and indulgent a mother and yet with that patience and fortitude which became on t only her rational soul who considered she had brought forth a mortall Daughter but also a submissive Christian who had learned not to repine against Heaven but in a great measure to melt down her own into the divine will If we once more turn and consider this Noble person in the relation of a Mistresse to a numerous family of Servants we shall finde her there conversant with the same honour which discovered it self in all her other capacities Though Aristotle was a stranger to her yet she had learned this rule So to behave her self towards her Servants as that her carriage would neither allow them to be proud or malapert nor yet did discourage them into any baseness of spirit After that the choice of her servants came intirely to her self her great care in the first place was to procure persons fearing God to be nigh unto her The number of these being few in this great licentiousness of Youth she preferred vertuous and sober persons she might indeed as to such be once and again deceived but none ever abode in her house when she had once discovered them to be Drunkards Vnclean persons Profane Swearers or Cursers Enemies to Religion and Godliness or any other way scandalous and her eye was so much about her house her care so much for the discipline of it as it was not easie for any such person to be long concealed but he was discerned either by her Ladyships own eye or by her Steward's She alwayes gave noble messes of meat to her servants and portions to her maidens and she also took more than ordinary care for the better Concerns of their immortal Souls In short there is none ever served her who will not praise her in the gates none who ever waited upon her but will rise up and call her blessed 3. But my Pen hasteneth to the consideration of this Honourable person in the third and last period of her life when she was again reduced to a single state In this she was indeed best known unto me having had the happiness to wait upon her during this whole time and for some little time before about seven or eight moneths from whence I shall begin my story It was in September 1646. that I was invited by Sir John Hobart at that time alive to take my Chamber in his house whiles

houshold things which were afterwards to her and her dear husband also of extraordinary advantage Now partly by the diligence of her Governess partly by the Care of one Mr. Moor her Fathers Chaplain partly by the superintendent care of my Lord her Father she was fully instructed in the principles of Religion As to which I have often heard her with honour mention her Governess and her Noble Father Her father for seasoning her against Arminian Principles and once suspending her from the Sacrament upon his re-examination of her after that his Chaplain had passed an hasty approbation of her Her Governess for the good stories she would tell her the good counsel she would give her and her care of her information as to Religion She would alwayes say that she learned of her to be a Calvinist in point of Doctrine and a Presbyterian as to Discipline for it seemeth she was both flying her own Country for her Religion or at least the Daughter of Parents who upon the massacre so fled for truly I do not well remember every particular in her Ladyships relations though I often heard them I have often heard her discourse with a gratefull remembrance how exactly the hours of her dayes were distributed to these several kinds of instruction So as no time was left her unless a little proportion for exercise and what was assigned for her more private devotions as to which her Governess was her most faithfull monitor or for the more publick Religious Duties of the Family her presence at which was as diligently required by my Lord her father The Evangelist recordeth concerning our Luk. 2. 15. Saviour That he went down to Nazareth and dwelt with his Parents and was subject to them Indeed subjection to Parents is the greatest vertue can adorn so tender an age the want of this in our Children is often caused by our selves God ordinarily securing the Parental Authority till themselves prostitute it This Rare Lady was bred up in this subjection I have heard her say that till she was married she never more than once sate down in the presence of her Lady-mother never was allowed to stay in a room with her when she received the visits of other Ladyes c. these and many other things of like severity I remember I have had in discourse from her which now have slipt my memory She did not take a liberty like Denyal to go see the Daughters of the Land at her own pleasure Her mother was like the cloud unto her when she moved to Court the Daughter moved also when she sate at home the daughter moved not at all I have often heard her mention it to the great honour of her Mother That she would require her constant attendance upon her self both going to the Court and returning from it and she was to her mother as the Centurions servant unto him If they said unto her Go she went if they said Come she came if Do this she did it Having attained to riper years she frequently was at the Court of King James and Queen Ann and was in great favour with that Queen and King Charles the first then Prince of Wales I do not remember any thing I have heard from her much momentous as to this part of her life unless frequent sad reflexions upon her self for mispending part of many Lords dayes in masks and other Court pastimes according to the fashion of others in her circumstances This she would often mention with bitterness and honourably mention and prefer before her self one of her Noble Sisters who in her youth had a just sense of that errour and courage enough to resist the temptations to it It was the only thing in which I ever heard her repent her obedience to and attendance upon her Mother whom yet she thought exceeding pious and paid alwayes a just honour to her mention and memory which reverence she had also for her Noble Father I remember the Passion she fell into when she heard of his death though I communicated it to her with as much advantage as I could to hinder sudden passions which made me as the Jews cry out Behold how she loved him The sequel of this discourse will evidence that it is not through want of more momentous matter that I instance in these things of more minute consideration But I have the rather mentioned them to let my Readers see how far we are degenerated from the ancient culture of youth and that orderly Discipline under which those male and female Worthies were educated who have done famously in our Ephrata and what probably is one great cause of that impudent licentiousness which dishonoureth the present generation The Generous Soul of this excellent Lady was ordained to higher things than Balls and Masques and Visits It now grew time for a Plant bred under so rare a cultivation to be removed into another place That her God might have the glory and her generation the fruit of such an education Her native beauty and the rare parts she began to discover made many noble persons desire her in marriage but to shew how early she was mortified to the vanities of youth with the approbation of her Parents she at last chose a Widower for her first and only husband Sir John Hobart of Blicklin in the County of Norfolk Baronet he was the eldest Son of Sir Henry Hobart at that time Lord Chief Justice and Chancellour to the Prince A Person indeed as to title in the lowest order of the Nobility but one whose Estate bare a full proportion to his quality and whose noble spirit and temper far better suited this excellent Lady than a greater title with another temper and spirit would have done She was married to this worthy person in the year In her Conjugal Relation she was now more perspicuous she was now planted upon an hill where those rare seeds which had been sown in her ingenuous Soul during her Nonage began to spring up and bring forth abundant fruit in that triple capacity to which this relation in some little succession intituled her that I mean of 1. a Wife to a worthy Husband 2. A Parent to Children and 3. a Governess to a numerous Family of Servants The Philosopher having rationally evinced the difference of vertues with relation to their subjects and shewn some more proper to those that Govern and others to such as are governed for the Vertues of a good Wife reckons up Chastity Prudent ordering of the affairs of the houshold within doors Reverence to her Husbands person seen in a respective behaviour to him a concealing his weaknesses and obedience to his commands Together with a just sympathy and patient sharing with him the vicissitude of Providences under which he is exercised All which being in themselves but morall vertues dictated by the light of Nature God in holy Writ by several Precepts and recommendations in the allowed examples of his Saints there canonized hath made the religious dutyes of

the Christian Wife in obedience to his superiour commands and under the encouragement of many great and precious promises for the glorifying of his holy Name who first instituted this relation and therefore to him of right it belonged to give lawes to it who also in his Word hath superadded another duty of a good Wife not understood by the Philosopher viz. a due regard to the salvation of the Soul of her Husband 1 Cor. 7. 16. What knowest thou O Wife whether thou shalt save thy husband For the first of these this excellent Lady rated her self by Julius Caesars reckoning not judging it enough for her to be thus vertuous unless she also lived above the suspicion of the contrary To let us know that she had not forgot the Law of her Mother she would often mention a saying of hers That temptations to the Violation of the honour of Ladyes in this particular originally proceeded from some too light and familiar carriage first in themselves and that wanton was suffered to come too near who came to be denyed Her constant behaviour therefore was tempered with that affability and gravity which in conjunction best became a person of her Ladyships honour And that she might shew the Church of Rome a Protestant Lady possessed of that threefold chastity which they make so meritorious as she had managed her state of Virginity and that upon the most publick Theatre in our English World so as she would often bless God who had taught her so to behave her self that none ever durst offer any rudeness to her and her conjugal relation without the least stain upon her honour So having lost the man of her bosom and again reduced to a single condition she grew to be something superstitious in this thing not only resolving through Gods assistance to go to her Grave having been only the Wife of one Husband but almost looking upon it as a piece of her duty and often reckoning it a piece of the honour of her fathers house that none of her Noble Sisters left Widows had married a second time The Philosopher allots to the vertuous wife the governance of the house within doors and a wiser than he had before in the description of his Vertuous Woman told us That she Prov. 31. 27. 11. looketh well to the affairs of her houshold and the heart of her husband trusteth in her She was not indeed under such circumstances as she needed to lay her hands to the spindle or to hold the distaff yet that was often her divertisement but it might truly be said of her that she looked well to the affairs of her house and that the heart of her Husband trusted in her And that not only as to the affairs of her House within in respect of which she was so vigilant as during the time that I waited on her it was no easie thing for any servant to impose upon her but also to those which were more extrinsecal and ordinarily no womens imployment Perceiving her dear Husband ingaged in a great debt she undertook the management of his whole estate and auditing all his accounts and that to so good a purpose that in a few years she had shortned his debt Six thousand pounds The Apostle treating of the duties of the Wife saith Eph. 5. 31. Let the Wife see she reverence her husband and St. Peter observeth that Sarah did so and attested it by calling him Lord which yet had not been much significant if it had not been conjoyned with a prudent concealing infirmities and a due Obedience to his just commands This Noble Lady did not only so in words but really testifie the honour and reverence she bare unto her head Her prudent concealing infirmities was obvious to all though no proper matter for this discourse Her Obedience to her Husbands commands was so absolute as if she had learnt of Aristotle that the Commands of the husband are Arist Oeconom lib. 2. a law by God imposed on the Wife by matrimonial conjunction She had indeed learned of a better Tutour Eph. 4. 22. Wives submit your selves to your own husbands as unto the Lord for the husband is the head of the Wife even as Christ is the head of the Church But above all most remarkable was this incomparable Ladies Christian patient sympathy with her dear husband in those bodily afflictions with which it pleased God to exercise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him exemplifying that of Demosthenes how valuable to an husband on a sick bed a good Wife is It pleased God to exercise him with successive afflictions though in different degrees even from her first Espousals to him and to allott him this Noble Lady as much for a Nurse as for a Wife Her care for him and tenderness of him was beyond expression of which I was an ocular witness for the seven or eight last moneths of his life when his distempers grew heaviest upon him In the day time she confined her self to his Chamber seldom leaving him for an hour unless to wait upon publick Ordinances or to take her daily bread or perform her secret Devotions In the night she watched with him to such a strange excess as all about her wondred her thin body could bear seldom laying her self down to take any rest till two or three of the Clock in the morning and then upon an ordinary Couch in his Chamber where she might hear every groan and be at hand to every need Thus she approved her self a Vertuous Wife according to the rules of Philosophy with this difference that she did all this from a more noble Principle in a more excellent Manner and to a more noble End But this was not all she was as much a meet help for him as to the things of Eternity and the salvation of his soul as in the things which concerned this life The familiar Compellation which her Noble husband generally used to her was My dear Saint and this not without a just cause from the experience he had had of her as to spiritual things When thou art converted saith our Saviour strengthen thy Brethren No sooner had God wrought a change in the heart of this Noble Lady but her great sollicitude was for the husband of her bosom that sin might not rest upon him When Christ had called Philip Joh. 1. 45. Philip findeth Nathaniel and saith unto him we have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write Jesus of Nazareth This Lady rightly apprehended that this spiritual charity ought to begin at home By her prudent monitions and passionate intreaties her husband was won from what had been the vanities of his youth To abhorre the things wherein he had formerly delighted to inquire after choose be acquainted with and to delight in those good wayes of God with which formerly he had no acquaintance and against which for want of a due knowledge of them he had formerly taken up a prejudice He was naturally

sentences some therefore interpret 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 axioms or remarkable sentences specially calculated for the regulating of our conversations These Solomon repeateth as the dictates of his parents to him Prov 1. 8. He bringeth in his father speaking My Son hear the instructions of thy Father and forget not the law of thy Mother Now that he might shew that that general admonition had an influence upon him he in a great part of this sacred peice of holy writ recordeth the instructions of his Father and in the beginning of this Chapter he also recordeth the Law of his Mother So this Chapter begins The words of King Lemuel the prophecy which his Mother taught him Interpreters generally agree that this Lemuel was Solomon there was no King of the Jews named Lemuel Nor need any stumble at the name who wistly considereth that at his birth the Lord named him Gedidiah which not onely argues him to have had another name beside that of Solomon 2 Sam. 12. 25. Apud eos Deus Deo Cui est Deus whether so many as some talk of I know not but the import of that name is much the same with that of this in the text That signified Beloved of God this may either be translated God is with them or to God or who hath God for his God as Critical writers have observed The learned Mercer rejecteth the first Etymology as jejune yet it is owned by the Hebrew Doctors and followed both by Munsterus and Clarius c. Mercer rejecteth it as onely significative of the time when Solomon ruled over Israel while God was yet with them before their Apostacy either of the latter is probable enough signifying either a man set apart for God or a man who had God for his God Which by the way may controul the severe sentence which some Popish Authors give against this excellent person as to his eternal state I conclude then and thatwith the generality of Interpreters that the former part of this Chapter containeth Solomons repetition of some excellent Maxims instilled into him by his mother Bathsheba which she fitteth to his future capacity of being King over Israel Where by the way we may observe the advantage of good principles instilled into children in their youth They may in the heat and vanity of their youth bury these instructions but they often have a resurrection and are afterwards to advantage remembred They are like seed thrown under the clods which upon the next kind showre will discover themselves In this Chapter Bathsheba perswaded her Son Solomon 1. To take heed of two species of Luxury both of them such as persons under his circumstances are exceeding prone to offend by in regard of the great affluence of the world upon them and which have a very ill influence upon persons of that Eminency not only with reference to their bodily life and health but with reference to their publick duty The summe of this first Instruction you have v. 3 4. Give not thy strength unto women nor thy waies unto that which destroyeth Kings It is not for Kings O Lemuel it is not for Kings to drink wine 2. Secondly She exhorteth him to the performance of those positive duties which concerned him in his Regal Capacity The execution of justice and shewing of mercy v. 8 9. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed for destruction Open thy mouth judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy From the tenth verse to the end is the second general part of the Chapter where you have the character of a vertuous woman whether those also were the words of Bathsheba as some think instructing Solomon her Son in the choice of a wife and by him recorded for our instruction Or whether they Originally be the words of Solomon from the pattern of his excellent Mother describing a desirable woman which is the opinion of others is as unprofitable to dispute as difficult to be determined You have the character of a vertuous woman from the tenth to the nine and twentieth verse In these last verses you have both the conclusion of that discourse and also of this whole Book of divine Aphorisms In it you have 1. The Elogium or commendation of a vertuous woman Many daughters have done vertuously but thou hast excelled them all Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised 2. Secondly An advertisement or admonition to the world to take notice of her and to honour her according to her value Give her of the work of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates In the former part we have observable 1. A short description of an excellent woman There are many good women many that have done vertuously Who then is this same excellent woman who had made her self high or to ascend above the ●●st as it is in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is this beloved above another beloved The text tells you A woman the fear of the Lord we translate it A woman fearing the Lord. I shall anon take further notice of the Hebraism 2. A Second thing which you have remarkable is the order or method which Solomon useth in commending of her which is per modum comparationis comparing her with other women and shewing her Superlative excellency and in the words of the text you have a double comparison The first of persons Many daughters i. e. many women have done vertuously but Thou hast excelled them all or hast ascended or lifted up thy self above all where you have 1. A Concession in those words Many Daughters have done vertuously he grants there were many who in there kind had done worthily and there was an honour due to them 2. A Position asserting the supereminent excellency of this person But thou hast excelled them all Solomon speaks of this woman as David his Father of the sword of Goliah There is none to it There is none to her This is she that is the chiefest of ten thousand 2. Secondly you have a Comparison of adjuncts from which persons may be commended Vertue Favour Beauty and the fear of the Lord. Concerning Vertue or Strength or Riches or Diligence for all these things are comprehended under the term 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he speaketh nothing at all diminutively he only asserteth an excellency in the fear of the Lord above all these they are as Starrs ordinary Starrs that have their lustre She as the Sun out-shining them all in glory For the other two he speaketh more diminutively of them Favour is deceitful Beauty is vain so not worthy to come into any noble Elogium of any person that indeed is not explicitly spoken but necessarily understood as you may gather from what followeth But saith he A woman fearing the Lord she shall be praised It is a short elliptical speech as much as if he had said but the fear of

glass and espying a little better air of her countenance a better mixture of colours in her cheeks than in other womens thinks this is warrant enough for her to admire her self stretch out her neck and mince it with her feet all the day after Or if the view of her face doth not in all points please her she thinketh it worth the while to spend both her money and her precious time to mend it with patchings and paintings with trickings and trimmings of her self And doth not the vain gallant think Beauty something who is so bewitched with it that forgetting the noble soul of which he is possessed ordained to higher imployments and the reason which he inheriteth which should guide him to a better purpose thinks his money and his time well spent while both are miserably expended to evidence his dotage upon this painted Sepulchre which it may be within is nothing but darkness filth and rottenness In the mean time let us look wistly upon this thing which we call Beauty is it any more than a perfection of b●dily parts pl●ced in a due proportion each to other and with a due and proportioned mixture of such colours as are proper to flesh and blood As to the former what is there in it more than is to be found in many an Horse or Dog it may be an higher degree As to the latter what is there more than in a Rose or a Lilly Nay what so much as in many a flower of the field or in many a picture As to many of these it may be said as our Saviour said of Solomon compared with the Lilly The most beautiful woman is not for colour like one of them Oh what a lye is beauty then that which in outward appearance is such that a vain woman will sacrifice her soul life estate time to obtain preserve or maintain it that which a vain man will spend all that he is worth in a base service and homage to it when in reality it is no further perfection than may be found in a Dog an Horse or other brute creature yea in a vegetable creature in a pittiful flower or plant above what can be found in any of the Sons and Daughters of men For Favour or Honour it is a thing that carrieth a great shew in the world what high thoughts of themselves doth it raise in them that are ●●gnified with it what a supercilious eye do those that have it but in a superiour degree cast upon those but a step beneath them How much doth it make vain man admired served complemented in the world But in reality what is this gay thing The world is yet at a loss where to find its residence whether in honorante or in honorato in the person that giveth or that receiveth it Certain it is that it is a meer air and in reality just nothing that which is often gained by fordid persons which neither betters the man as to his body mind nor soul only serveth him as to a comfortable subsistence in this life and gains him the wall a cap and a knee and a title Take Riches another thing which in vulgar opinion carries with it a great notion of excellency and imprinteth upon man a considerable difference from his neighbour They make a fair shew and have a great appearance hence whoso hath them swells in the opinion of himself and all he world does him homage But what is silver and gold in reality What is gold more than yellow sand and silver more than white earth considered in it self without the relative value which men put upon it Indeed more by far is to be said for the inward habits of the mind Knowledge Prudence Sobriety and the rest of the moral vertues but neither are they without their vanity as I shall shew you anon I shall add no more to this first thing demonstrating the vanity and emptiness of such other things as inhance the price of one man above another They are a great deal more in appearance than they are in reality 2. The second thing which I instanced in was this They are such as never fill or satisfie the mind of the person possessed of them like dreams of feasts notwithstanding which we are hungry lyes in our right hand like wind in the body which often filleth the stomach and spoileth the appetite to its proper food but never nourisheth the body nor satisfieth the hunger I shall shew 1. That they will not satisfie the wants of the soul 2. That they less satisfie the souls expectation 1. I say first They will not satisfie the souls wants The true wants of the reasonable soul are and can be satisfied with nothing but divine influences It is a noble spirit and none but the Father of spirits can fill its emptiness The soul while it sleeps in the Lethargy of sin while it sojourneth in its estate of estrangement from God like the Prodigal it feedeth Swine and filleth its belly with the husks but after it hath once fixed its resolution to return to its Fathers house nothing less than God can fill it it cries out as once Rachel for children Lord give me Christ or else I die It is plainly impossible that any thing but the favour of God and the sense of that favour or at least good hopes of it through grace should ever satisfie that soul that is once awakened to consider its self as in its natural constitution a spiritual immortal being ordained to an Eternity and as it is in its depraved estate by nature a child of wrath I say again the soul thus reflecting upon it self can be satisfied with nothing less than the sense or firm hopes of Gods favour making over the Righteousness of Christ unto it and accepting it as righteous in and through Christ and whatsoever soul is satisfied without this is either ignorant of its own state and capacity or exceeding vain and careless not regarding its highest concerns As Abraham when God bid him ask what he would and he would give it him replied What canst thou give me whiles I go childless So the awakened soul saith What can God give me whiles I go childless Beauty is a pretty thing but what is it to Eternity Riches are useful things but they will not ransom my soul from the pit of Hell Honour will serve me to take a place or the wall in this world but it will not give me a place at Gods right hand Pleasure is a sweet thing oh but endless torments will be a dreadful issue of it Great Friends and Relations are great blessings but it is Christ alone can stand my friend in the Court of Heaven to speak for me that I may not be sent unto eternal burnings 2. And as nothing but divine influences will satisfie the souls wants so nothing else will satisfie the souls expectation The wise man who had as great experience as any mortal man ever had cries out The eye is not satisfied