A MIRROR That flatters not OR A Looking-glass FOR ALL NEW-CONVERTS To whatsoever Perswasion Roman-Catholicks Conformists or Non-Conformists THAT IS Certain Sermons of St. Bernard translated into English wherein the Manner and Nature of the true and hearty Conversion of a Sinner unto God is fully and excellently described Together with A Preface of the Translator to all New-Converts in which is shewn that the Conversion which will make us happy in the other World is the Conversion describ'd by St. Bernard not the simple Change to such a Church Perswasion or Communion LONDON Printed in the Year 1677. THE Translator's Preface TO ALL NEW-CONVERTS MUltiplicasti gentem sed non magnificasti laetitiam Thou hast made our number more but hast not made our joy greater A great deal of noise the change of New-Converts makes and yet no great cause of joy either to themselves or to the Church Perswasion or Sect or whatever else you please to call it to which they are converted Si converteris Israel ad me convertere If ye be converted be converted unto me says the Lord of Heaven and Earth If your Conversion to the true Church of Christ as you imagin has converted your heart and soul throughly unto God you have made an happy change indeed and no doubt but there 's joy in Heaven at your Conversion but if your heart and manners be still the same as before and you have only gotten a new name and a new form of Godliness without the interior Vertue and Power of it you are as you were as to your title to Beatitude in the other life As good never-a-whit as never the better If you be a Christian Jesus Christ has told you the means and the only means to get eternal life is to love God above all things and your Neighbours as your selves If you want this no Communion with any whatsoever Church or Sect can hinder you from being eternally miserable Though no doubt seeing Religion is nothing else but a manner of living reveal'd by God Almighty to the World to dispose them for the felicity of the other life it must necessarily be highly advantageous to be of the true Religion because in that must needs be contained far greater helps than in any Sect of man's devising to beget in Souls the necessary preparations to eternal Beatitude And hence of all Religions that Religion is demonstratively from God which has the greatest and manifoldst means to fit Souls for the happiness of the other life or to make the World truly good that is pious to God charitable to one another and temperate as to the use and desires of the things of this life When those means are not by ignorance or corrupt passions abused but sincerely and seriously made use of But you thank God you are converted to the Church of Rome Et quae tanta fuit Romam tibi causa videndi And why so passionately desirous to see Rome But be it as it will I 'll not now dispute with you about it but at present I 'll suppose the Religion you have embrac'd to be most holy and true And yet you must give me leave to tell you as a friend your great work is still to do I know there are certain Preferments in Cambridg called Scholarships and Fellowships which none are capable of though never so deserving either for their natural Parts or acquired Learning unless they have been for some time educated in such a School Westminster for example or Eton c But coming from such a School ihough otherwise their Learning be very indifferent they are without difficulty preferred in respective Colledges of the said Vniversity But it is not so in Heaven Places and Dignities in that City of Light are not conferred upon us because we have been trained up in the Communion of such a Perswasion but because of our fitness and dispositions for them To say to the Examiner of all hearts in the day of Judgment you come out of such a School of Vertue the Protestant for example or roman-Roman-Church will signify nothing towards your admittance to the fellowship of God and his Saints for ever It will be answered at that great day to all workers of Iniquity though not only the Church in whose Communion they died but also though even they themselves in their own persons have prophesied in the name of our Lord Jesus and wrought many wonderful things Depart from me I know you not But if you have in the time of your abode on this earth so exercised your selves in all works of piety to God and charity to your Neighbour and temperance and Christian mortification to your selves as you have nextly disposed your Soul for the beatifying sight of God by an hearty love of his Divine Majesty and cordial charity to your Neighbour and a moderate orderly desire of the things here below you need no other recommendation for your assured admittance to immutable everlasting Bliss Nor is this said to perswade any one to an indifferency of living and dying in any whatsoever Church or Communion No. God forbid But only to awaken those who seem to set their hearts at rest when they have once as they imagin found out the true Church of Christ The same I say to all New-Converts to Non-conformity or the Religion established by Law Have you more of the fear of God in your hearts than you had before Have you a more cordial charity to your Neighbour than before Have you a less esteem of the Pleasures Riches and Honours of this World than before If you have you have then reason to be glad of your change and to hope you have made a step neerer eternal Beatitude by it But if you are as greedy of Money as passionate in your desires of all sensual delights as much a Slave to Honour and the favour of men as little studious to do your indigent Neighbour good in all his wants Corporal or Spiritual as little regardful of the Divine Majesty whether out of fear or love as before your great work is still to do your Conversion that must make you live eternally is still to be made If you be converted to God and all other Conversions are to very little purpose then you have a regard to God in all your ways For as when you are converted to the Church of Rome still you have an eye to the Commands and Orders of that Church So when you are converted unto God if you be indeed converted unto him you have ever an eye unto him and think how he would have you spend your time how much upon wordly Affairs how much in Prayer and other spiritual exercises how much in moderate recreation c. You regard also God in your eating drinking and sleeping observing that Christian-mean in all these actions which you think God Almighty would have you to observe not regarding the contrary unchristian practices of the libertines you live amongst In like manner if God Almighty have
aggravates the Soul and the earthly Habitation depresses the Vnderstanding ruminating on many things Wisd 9. Yet in both it is sin only which troubles and dims the sight nor does any thing else seem to separate betwixt the Eye and Light betwixt God and Man For as long as we are in this body we are Pilgrims from God Not that the fault is in the Body to wit this body of death which we carry about us but rather because the flesh is the body of sin in which there is no good thing but rather the law of sin Yet sometimes the eye of the body the mote not still remaining in it but being now taken or blown out seems for a while to see dimly the which very thing he who walks spiritually often experiments in the interior eye The wound is not therefore cured because you have drawn out the Sword but then first it is necessary to apply Plaisters and endeavour the Cure Let no man therefore emptying the sink deem that he is forthwith made clean but let him know that he needs yet many purifications Nor must he only be wash'd with water but also be purged and purified by fire that he may say We have passed through fiâ—e and water and thou hast brought us out into refreshing Psal 65. Blessed therefore are the clean of heart for they shall see God Mat. 5. Now indeed through a glass dimly but hereafter face to face to wit when the cleanness of our face shall be consummated that he may exhibit it to himself glorious having neither spot nor wrinckle CHAP. XXVI Of the Peaceable Patient and Peace-maker WHere very opportunely it 's immediately inferr'd Blessed are the Peacemakers because they shall be called the Sons of God For he is a peaceable man who rendring good for good as much as in him is wills no body no hurt Another is Patient who not rendring evil for evil is able to bear with him who does him hurt And there is also a Peace-maker who returning good for ill he is ready to profit him who does him damage The first is a little one and is easily scandalized nor can he that is such an one easily obtain Salvation in this wicked World and full of scandals The second as it is written possesses his Soul in patience The third does not only possess his own Soul but also gains the Souls of many The first as much as is in him has peace The second keeps peace The third makes peace Deservedly therefore he is beatified with the name of Son because he has fulfilled the work of a Son who being not ungrateful after his own reconciliation does also reconcile others to his Father For he who shall have ministred well acquires to himself a good degree nor is there a better degree to be believed in the house of his Father than that of a Son For if Sons then Heirs Heirs indeed of God but Co-heirs with Christ Rom. 8. ver 17. That as he says Where he is there also his Minister may be Joh. 12. v. 26 I have wearied you with the length of my Discourse and have kept you longer than I should have done So that now seeing that modesty does not the very time seems to command an end to my talkativeness Remember notwithstanding the Apostle who upon a time you read protracted his Sermon until midnight And I would to God that I may use his words that you would yet a little bear my folly for I emulate you with the emulation of God 2 Cor 11. CHAP. XXVII A Reprehension of the Ambitious who having not their hearts cleansed presume to pacify God towards others MY little ones who will shew you how to fly from the wrath to come For no body more deserves anger than an enemy counterfeiting himself to be a friend O Judas doest thou with a kiss betray the Son of man one of the same mind with me who together with me didst eat sweet bits who dip'st thy hand with me in the Platter Thou hast no part in that Prayer with which he prays to his Father and says Father forgive them for they know not what they do Lu. 24. Wo be unto you who take away the key not only of Knowledg but also of Authority neither do your selves enter in and you many ways hinder those whom you ought to have introduced For ye take away and do not receive the keys Concerning whom our Lord complains by his Prophet They have reigned and not by me they have been Princes and I have not called them Hos 8. Whence so great a zeal of Superiority whence such an impudency of Ambition whence such a madness of human Presumption would any of you dare to take upon you the Ministeries to invade the Benefices to manage the Affairs of some Earthly Prince he not commanding but even prohibiting of you Neither must thou think God Almighty approves those things which in his great House he suffers from vessels of wrath fit for destruction Many indeed come but consider who is called Mark the order of our Lord's Sermon Blessed says he are the clean of heart because they shall see God Mat. 5. And then Blessed are the Peacemakers because they shall be called the Sons of God Now the Heavenly Father calls those clean of heart who do not seek their own things but the things of Jesus Christ nor what is profitable for themselves but what is profitable for many Peter says he doest thou love me Lord thou knowest that I love thee Feed my Sheep Joh. 21. For when indeed would he commend Sheep so beloved to one that did not love him And this is required of Dispensators that one be found faithful Wo be to unfaithful Ministers who being not themselves yet reconciled as if they were men that lived righteously take upon them the business of reconciling others Wo to the Sons of Wrath who profess themselves Ministers of Grace Wo to the Sons of Wrath who fear not to usurp to themselves the degree and name of Peace-makers Wo to the Sons of Wrath who lying say they are faithful Mediators of Peace that they may eat up the sins of the people Wo to those who living carnally cannot please God and yet presume to undertake to appease him CHAP. XXVIII That some usurp to themselves the degree of Peacemakers WE do not wonder Brethren we who have compassion on the present state of the Church we do not wonder that from the root of the Serpent has issued a Cockatrice We do not wonder if he gather the Vintage of the Lord's Vineyard who transgresses the way ordained by the Lord. For he impudently invades the degree of a Peace-maker and the Office of a Son of God who has not as yet heard the very first Voice of the Lord making him to reflect upon his own heart or if perhaps at any time he has begun to hear it returning back again he ran to the Fig-leaves that he might be hidden by them Wherefore neither has he as
sense of its internal dammages because it is not within it self but in the belly perhaps or under the belly In fine some mens Souls are in their Platters and others in their Coffers where thy treasure is says our Lord there also is thy heart And what wonder if the Soul feel not its own wounds when forgetful of it self and wholly absent from it self it was gone into a far Country But the time will come when returning home to it self it shall understand how cruelly it tore out its own very bowels under the pretext of a miserable hunting Neither indeed could it then be sensible of it when with unsatiable desire catching at the vile prey of a few sorry flyes like the spider it seemed to make Nets of its own Bowels CHAP. V. Of the punishment as well of Soul as Body and fruitless Repentance after death AND this return into it self shall without doubt be at least after death when all the doors of the Body shall be shut up by which it was wont to wander abroad and go forth to busie it self about the figure of this world which passes away so that now it necessarily remains in it self all egress out of it self being now impossible unto it But it will be a sad and most pernicious return and everlasting misery when it shall be able to have repentance but not be able to do any penitential work for when the Body shall be wanting there can be no action and when there shall be no action neither can there be found any satisfaction For to have repentance is to grieve but to do penitential works is the remedy of grief For one that shall want hands can no more lift up his hands unto heaven But whosoever shall not return unto himself before the laying aside of his body must necessarily remain in himself for ever But in what a self In such a self as he shall have made himself in this life unless perhaps he shall sometimes be worse for better shall he never be who is bad for this very Body which now he puts off he must one day receive again not to do penance but to be punished in it when after a certain sort the condition of the flesh and of sin shall be much a-like for as sin shall be able always to be punished but never be expiated or satisfied for so neither in the Body shall the torments possibly be ended nor yet the Body be consumed with the torments Deservedly indeed shall everlasting vengeance and rage be against the sinner because his fault can never be blotted out and neither shall the substance of his flesh fail lest together with it the affliction of his flesh should be forced to fail also My dearest Brethren he that fears these things is cautious to avoid them but he that slights them falls into them CHAP. VI. That the worm of Conscience ought here to be felt and by little and little extinguished and not to be cherished and nourished to immortality THAT therefore we may return to the Voice we spoke of above whilst there is a way open thither whither his Salvation shews us who with so great piety and compassion calls back thither Prevaricators Nor in the mean time let it be irksome to feel the bitings of the internal Worm nor let a dangerous sowerness of mind or a pernicious softness prevail with us to dissemble our present trouble Then the Worm is best felt when there is also a possible capacity of choaking it Therefore let it bite now that it may die and by little and little cease to bite In the mean time by biting let it gnaw upon putrefaction that gnawing upon it it may consume it and it self altogether with it be consumed and not be nourished to immortality Their worm says he shall not die and their fire shall not be put out Isa 66. Who shall be able to endure from the face of those bitings For at present many little Consolations do mitigate the torture of the reprehending Conscience God is good not suffering us to be tempted above our strength nor does he suffer this worm to molest and vex us beyond all measure especially in the beginnings of our Conversion he supples our wounds with the Oil of Mercy that neither the quantity of our Disease nor the difficulty of its Cure may be further made known to us than is expedient but rather a certain facility seems to smile upon us which afterwards vanishes away when now to him that has his senses exercised a strong Combat is given that he may overcome and learn that Wisdom is powerful over all In the mean time he that hears the Voice of the Lord Return to your heart O ye Prevaricators and finds so many obscenities in his inward Bed-chamber he 's very busy in searching every corner and being very curious he seeks by what passage all this filth flowed in and without any great difficulty the hole yea the holes are manifest unto him But neither is this consideration cause of a little grief unto him when that through his own windows death is found to have entred For that the curiosity of the eyes seems to have let in much filth the itching of the ears much and much also the pleasure of Smelling Tasting and Touching For as for spiritual vices of which are made mention above he being carnal hardly yet examines them as they are Whence it comes to pass that he has less sense or none at all of those things which are more grievous nor is he bitten so much with the remembrance of Pride and Envy as with the remembrance of certain flagitious and facinorous acts CHAP. VII That to some it seems easy for man's will to obey the Divine Voice AND lo again a Voice out of the Clouds saying Thou hast sinned Peace And what is said is to this purpose Now the sink overflowing fills the House with an intolerable stench and whilst as yet the ordures are continually flowing in in vain doest thou go about to pump them out to do pennance whilst thou doest not leave off to sin For who can approve of their Fasts who fast for strife and contention and impiously smite with the fist yea their own wills and pleasures are found in them Such is not the Fast which I have chosen says the Lord Isa 58. Shut the windows of death stop up diligently all the holes and passages and so at length no new ordure entring in thou wilt be able to purge out the old And the poor ignorant man unexperienced in spiritual exercises thinks what is now commanded is easily fulfilled for what should hinder me says he that I should not be able to command the members of my own body Instantly then he lays a command of fasting upon his gluttonous appetite forbids excess in drinking charges his ears to be stopt against hearing of blood turns away his eyes lest they should see vanity he stretches out his hands not to covetousness but rather to giving of
yet ceased to sin but still draws a long chain after him he is not yet made a man seeing his own poverty but he says for I am rich and want nothing when he is indeed poor and naked and piteously miserable He has nothing of the spirit of Meekness whereby he might be able to instruct those who are overtaken with a fault considering himself lest he also may not be tempted Being a stranger to tears of compunction he rather rejoyces when he has done ill and exults in the worst things To wit he is one of those to whom our Lord says Wo be to you who laugh now for ye shall mourn Lu. 6. His eyes covet Money not Justice and he looks at every high thing he miserably hungers after Dignities he thirsts after Human Glory the Bowels of Mercy are far from him he rather rejoyces in Cruelty and to play the Tyrant he counts Gain Piety Why do I speak of cleanness of heart I wish he had not wholly forgotten it as one dead as to his heart I wish he were not a seduced Dove that has no heart would to God even that which is without were but clean and that the spotted Coat which pertains to the Body were not to be found and that he did even in this part obey him that says Be clean you who carry the vessels of the Lord. CHAP. XXIX A Complaint against the Incontinent for not Revering Holy Orders I Do not accuse all but neither can I excuse all Our Lord has left to himself many thousands Otherwise if their Justice did not excuse us and the Lord of Sabbath had not left us that holy Seed we had now long ago been destroyed as was Sodom and had perished as Gomorrah Indeed the Church seems to have been dilated and even the most Sacred Order of the Clergy their number is beyond number multiplied But though O Lord thou hast made our number more yet thou hast not made our joy greater whilst there appears as great a decrease of merit as increase of number Every-where they run to Holy Orders and men without reverence without consideration meddle with Mysteries revered by the very Angelical Spirits For they are not afraid to seize upon the sign of the Heavenly Kingdom to wear the Crown of that Empire even they in whom Avarice reigns Ambition rules Pride domineers and even abominable Luxury has its principality Amongst whom also perhaps the worst of abominations appears within their Walls if according to the Prophecy of Ezekiel we would pierce the Wall so that even in the House of God we live most horridly ill For that after Fornications after Adulteries after Incests amongst some even ignominious passions and filthinesses are not wanting Would to God things which are not fitting to be done were so not done that it neither was needful for the Apostle to write these things nor for us to speak of them or that he should not be thought worthy to be believed who should say that so abominable an affection did at any time occupy the heart of man Were not of old those Cities the Mothers of this filthiness condemned before-hand by the Divine Justice and destroyed by fire Did not the fire of Hell impatient of delay by prevention devour that execrable people because their sins were specially manifest going before to judgment Gen. 19. Did not stormy showers of Fire and Brimstone absume the very earth as conscious of so great a confusion Was not the whole Country converted into an horrible lake Five heads of that Hydra were cut off but alas innumerable rose up in their place Who has built again the Cities of wickedness who has dilated the Walls of turpitude who has extended the poisonous seed Wo wo wo the enemy of mankind has scattered about the World the unhappy relicks of that sulphureous fire with those execrable ashes he has bestrewed the body of the Church and with a foul and fetid filth has besprinkled some of her Ministers Ah elect Race royal Priesthood holy Nation acquired People Who amidst thy so Divine beginnings and the first birth of Christian Religion abounding with all spiritual Graces could have believed that such things as these should ever have been found in thee With these spots they enter the Tabernacle of the Living God they inhabit the holy Temple of the Lord polluting of it having hereafter to receive a manifold Judgment for that they have such grievous Consciences and yet notwithstanding intrude themselves into the Sanctuary of God For such do not only not appease God but more incense him whilst they seem to say in their hearts He will not punish us They do indeed provoke him and make him angry with them I fear by those very things by which they ought to liave made an atonement Would to God rather than thinking to begin a Tower they would sit down and compute the cost lest perhaps they should not have a sufficient stock to perfect it Would to God they who are not able to contain would be afraid rashly to profess perfection or to promise a single life For it is truly a costly Tower and a great Word which all cannot take But without all peradventure it were better to marry than to burn and to be saved in the low degree of the faithful people than in the sublime state of the Clergy both to live worse and to be more severely judged For many not indeed all but yet many it is certain neither can they lie hid such is their multitude nor do they seek to lie hid such is their impudence many I say seem to have made use of the liberty in which they are called as an occasion of carnality abstaining from the remedy of Marriage and afterwards pouring themselves forth on all manner of wickedness CHAP. XXX An Exhortation to Repentance that being first humbled they may be afterwards exalted SPare I beseech you Brethren spare your Souls spare the Blood which was shed for you Take heed of the horrid danger decline the fire which is prepared Let there be found at length not a mock-profession of Perfection let the vertue of Piety be exhibited together with the semblance of it let there not be an empty form of a single life devoid of the truth How should Chastity but be in danger amidst Delights Humility among Riches Piety in the middle of Business Truth in much speaking Charity in this wicked World Fly out of the middle of Balylon fly and save your souls Fly to the Cities of Refuge where you may do Pennance for what 's past and obtain Grace for the present and confidently expect Glory hereafter Let not the consciousness of your sins retard you for where they have abounded Grace is wont to superabound neither let the austerity of Pennance deter you For the sufferings of this Life are not worthy the past fault which is remitted nor the present comfort of Grace which is infused nor the future Glory which is promised us In fine there
in a Rock Let us if you please divert unto him for it is good for us to be there My Armor-bearer Reason shall go before us for he is skilful in the ways and known to Justice to wit of his kindred Reason then leading the way the rest following he got to the Castle before them and having saluted Justice gave notice of the Guests that were a coming Justice enquires who they are asks whence and for what they come And being informed concerning their King rising up goes out to them with provision of Bread and meets them as an honoured Mother and taking the Soul off from the Horse of Desire affectuously lodges him in the inmost chambers of his House The enemies Army follows and surrounding the Castle on all sides seeks out if possible some entrance or other and as a Lion goes about seeking whom he may devour But finding it fortified on all sides they pitch their Tents and order Watches that no body may be able to go in or out and that the morning being come they may assault it and with their prepared machins throw it down to the ground In the mean time Fear timerous and not slothful in solicitude nor ever secure excites his fellow-Souldiers convenes Justice enquires about the fortification of the place and how they are prepared with Arms and adds if perhaps there be a sufficiency of provisions for their sustenance To these things Justice answers The scituation of the place as you may observe is strong and inaccessible nor does it fear assaults with the arms and machins of the enemies But because it is a dry place it has but few Inhabitants whom it sustains in some manner with the dry food of Barly-bread And we have now only left five Barly-loaves and two Fishes And what says Fear are these amongst so many He began therefore the more to fear and to be irksomly weary and blaming the Soul for coming off the Horse of desire often commemorated that the last things of that man would be worse than his first For that forward Horse now committed to the guidance of only reason with his swift course did fly to the City Thou thy self says he shalt see if it was not better with thee then rather than now And so Fear had almost risen up against Hope for thinking contrary things but Temperance called in Prudence Prudence being come reprehending the unruliness of Fear says Let thy Sword O Fear shew its cruelty upon the adversaries Doest thou not know that our King is the King of Vertues the strong and powerful Lord the Lord powerful in Battel Let therefore a Messenger go who may make known the necessities of his Servants demand Help bring Auxiliaries And who shall be able to go says Fear Darkness has covered the earth and a watchful multitude of enemies encompasses the walls and we all ignorant of the way as in a Country far from home They called therefore Justice their Host If in any thing say they thou canst help us To whom Justice Be of good heart For I have a very faithful messenger to the King well known at Court to wit Prayer who is not unskilled through unknown ways in the secret silence of the night to penetrate the secrets of Heaven and to go to the King's Bed-chamber and by an opportune importunity to incline the pious mind of the King and is wont by a pittiful supplication to impetrate help for the distressed Let him go if you please for lo he is here present at hand And when they had all answered It pleases us Prudence dictating what he should insinuate to the King Justice commanding him that he should act faithfully and be sure not to return empty the rest but especially Fear beseeching him that he would make all haste possible he was sent away through a secret postern of the wall And he securely penetrating the thickest files of the enemies swifter than any Bird in a moment in the twinkling of an eye came to the very Gates of the new Jerusalem Which when he had found shut and had knocked the Porters taking it ill that in the silent dead of night he should fill the City with clamours and not be afraid to be importune even to the King himself he continued knocking and moreover spoke saying Open to me the Gates of Justice and being entred into them with my mouth I will confess to the Lord our King according to the multitude of my dolours which are in my heart This says he is the Gate of my Lord Justice sent me unto you that I may be introduced to the King for I have secrets to reveal to him The voice of the Turtle was heard in our Land And when it was understood that she was a Messenger from Justice he was commanded to be brought in Prayer entring in unto the King adored and said O King live for ever And he Are things well with thy Lord and his concerns And Prayer Well O Lord through your Grace Yet one thing is needful Your servant which by your Royal command was snatch'd away from the horns of the Unicorns has turned in unto your Champion my Master and it is a Southerly and dry Land and it has no provisions May my Lord give his benediction and our earth give his fruit and our enemies are gathered together in multitudes to fight against us Give us O Lord help concerning our tribulation because there is no other to fight for us except thou our God Then our King whose nature is goodness moved with these fears said Whom shall we send To whom Charity Lo here am I Lord send me But the King asked concerning her Companions but Charity answered her own Domesticks were sufficient Charity therefore goes out together with her noble Train Joy Peace Patience Longanimity Benignity Goodness Meekness The renowned Captain attended by these marches forward and assured of the Victory lifting up the triumphal sign he passed the first and second Watch of the enemies And being come to the Gate it opened to her of it self At whose entrance great joy was made in the Town And when at the perswasion of joy they all lift up their voices and cried out with acclamations the clamorous noise terrified the Camp of those without And they what is that voice of Exultation that sounds in our ears from the Tents of Israel It was not so yesterday and the day before Perhaps aid is come to them and they will sally out and assault us Wherefore let us fly Israel for the Lord fights for them against us In the mean time Charity impatient of delay commands her Army to be put in array the Gates to be opened and the enemy to be pursued openly professing and saying I will go to the gates of Hell So at one sally the whole Army of Charity goes forth whose force the Babylonians not being able to bear they fly but do not escape On the side of Fear fall thousands and on the right-hand of Charity ten