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A61120	Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...	Spencer, John, d. 1680.; Fuller, Thomas, (1608-1661)	1658 (1658)	Wing S4960; ESTC R16985	1,028,106	735

Sayest thou so replyed the King then thou art he that art worthy to govern the whole Covent Thus it is that every good Man is contented to be in his station to sit below till he hear the Governours voyce calling unto him Friend sit up higher to walk before God in the light of his own candle to keep in the warrantable circuit of his Vocation and if he see dangerous honours pursue him he flyes for it and with David wishes that he had the wings of a Dove that he might flye away and be at rest But what a sad thing must it needs be then to see Ministers Men in holy orders greedy after and trucking for Church-preferment ravelling out their lives in progging after great Friends and Fortunes as if Godlinesse were a Bustrophe a course of going backward and forward to the right and left hand for advantage sake God onely able to perswade the Heart fully A Smith that undertakes to make a Key to open such a lock that is out of order must of necessity first know all the wards else he may make a key that will not fit he may endeavour but not be able to turn the lock Thus it is that whereas there are in the heart of Man so many windings so many turnings such a Labyrinth such a depth in it that in the eye of humane reason there 's no possibility to find out the bottom thereof How then is it to be imagined that the most knowing quick-sighted Man should be able fully to pers●ade the Heart He cannot that 's peculiar to God onely He is that great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that onely knowes all the inwards all the secret passages all the cunning contrivances and all the crosse-wards of the Heart to him onely belongeth that especiall key of David It is he that can best unlock the Heart answer all objections enlighten all the corners turn all the wheels of the Soul suit and fit the Heart with such arguments as shall be effectual to Perswasion Ingratitude condemned PHilip of Macedon hearing of one in his Kingdom that refused most unthankfully to receive a stranger of whom he had been formerly succoured in a time of extream need as having lost all he had by a wrack at Sea caused him to be worthily punished by branding in his Forehead these two letters J. H. i. e. Ingratus Hospes The unthankful guest Now if every unthankful Man were thus used there would be many a blistered Fore-head amongst us O the unthankfulnesse that we shew unto God who when we were strangers to him ship-wrackt even in an Ocean of Sin sent his Son Christ Iesus to deliver us yet we refuse to receive him to relieve him in his distressed Members and to be obedient to his blessed commands And then our Ingratitude to one another is such that though we come off with smooth fronts here in this World yet such characters of shame and confusion are engraven on our Souls that Men and Angels shall read them with amazement when the books shall be laid open Dan. 7. 10. The unhappinesse of a disordered Family IT is said of that right Religious and worthy George Prince of Anhalt That his very Bed-Chamber was a Church a University and a Court wherein besides the dispatch of civil businesse there was daily praying reading writing yea and preaching too so that it cannot be imagined that the noble Earl having a Church for God in his Chamber should suffer a Temple to Bacchus in his Cellar But which is to be lamented in too too many Families Venus hath her Altar in the Chamber and Bacchus his Sacrifice in the Buttery which two having shared their Devoto's What a poor third must be left for God and his People to delight in Ioshua's resolution for the better ordering his houshould and Davids vow for reformation of his Family are little set by Let but a servant fail in the neglect of his Masters profit or in the carelesse performance of his place what ado is there yet in the mean time though the same servant be ignorant scandalous and what not altum silentium there 's no notice taken of it at all Signs of Heaven as Sun Moon with their Eclipses c. as we are not to be dismaied at them so not to be contemners of them PEricles the great and famous Athenian who in the beginning of the Peloponesian war being ready with a great Fleet of an hundreth and Fifty Ships to Loyse up sail was presented even as he went up into his Gally with a great and terrible Eclipse of the Sun which made the sky so dark that some of the bigger Stars appeared At which the Governour of the Ship was sore affrighted and the reupon with therest of the company refused to set sail which when Pericles perceived either truly contemning the threatnings of the Stars or fearing that the hearts of his Souldiers should fail he put his cloak for a while before the Governours eyes and then by and by taking it away again asked him If that which he had done with his Cloak portended any thing To whom the Governour answered No No more saith he maist thou think is signified by this Eclipse though the Moon be now betwixt the Sun and our sight Which being said he commanded that they should hoyse up Sail and be gon about the intended expedition But this of Pericles was surely an overbold presumption as in the end appeared there being soon after not onely misery brought upon his own Country and dishonour upon himself but all Greece wasted under the sad calamity of a long lasting War Thus it is that as the signs of Heaven such as the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon Comets c. are not things whereat we should after an Heathenish manner be dismaid so should we not contemn them nor the signification intended by them they are called by the name of influences Iob 38. 31. from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 super et fluo that is to flow into or upon they must needs then have some object to flow into or work upon and by their working they speak to all those who will but lend an Ear to hear them that is to us who are here below who inhabit this dull dark Globe of Mortality over whose heads they hang that casting our eyes upon them we may not onely behold them but according to that Wisedome which God hath given us look into their significations by considering their motions configurations Risings Settings Aspects Occultations Eclipses Conjunctions and the like The severall books of God slighted and neglected by the most of Men. IT is usual and well-known that Children sport themselves and play with the pictures in a book gaze upon the golden cover and admire the Silken strings but all this while they little mind what is in the

upon the guard in a posture of defence resisting the Devil quitting themselves like men who otherwise might live in all security Man to be peacable and why so MAn by nature seems to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apeaceable Creature fitter to handle the Plow-share than the sword fitter to deal with the pruning hook than the Spear All other Creatures are naturally armed with some kind of weapon wherewith being offended they are able to right and revenge themselves The Lion hath his paws the Bull his horns The Boar his Tusks The Dog his Fangs The Cock his Spurs The little Bee his Sting habet Musca splenem There is no Creature so small so contemptible which hath not some weapon to fight withall onely Man he hath none of these he comes naked unarmed into the world whereby saith the Poet even nature it self teacheth us this lesson that it is for brute beasts that have no understanding to bite and tear and gore one another As for men they should be meek gentle helping defending comforting one another God hath given them reason and speech that they might delight to live and converse together in Cities and Families not to hunt and to worry and to kill one another Sanctification not wrought all at once and why HE that will dye a Purple in grain doth give his cloth inferior colours first and after many dippings in many preparative liquors he doth at length perfect the colour and gives it its full lustre Even so the splendor of Sanctity is not attained in the first moment of our Conversion many a line must be drawn in our souls by the sp●rit of God before we can fully recover his Image Not that there is any inability in God so that he cannot in a moment as in the Creation make us both innocent holy but he is pleased by the difficulty on our part to make us mindful of our former unthriftiness and careful to husband Grace better when he is pleased to give it God onely wise CAnutus a King of this Land contended that the name of King was onely due to the King crucified Jesus Christ so surely the name of Wisdom is due and to be ascribed to God onely as being onely wise It is St. Pauls acknowledgement 1 Tim. 1. 17. Nay the very Heathens as arrogant as they were have acknowledged no less Laertius writes that certain young men of Ionia standing upon the Sea-shore and beholding Fisher-men making of a draught agreed with them a●great for their draught that what they should hale up to land in their net should be their own Now it was so by the providence of God that together with certain fish they enclosed a certain piece of Plate which no Man knew when it was sunk there and dragged the same to land in their net The same being claimed and seized on by the young men by vertue of their bargain they cast between them how to dispose of it But when they could not agree about the sharing of it they sent to the Oracle for Resolution they were returned answer to send it to the Wisest They send it therefore to Thales their Country-man a man of great note in those dayes for wisdom but when it was brought to him he disabled himself and disdained the name of VVise and sent it to such a one as being more wise then he was The second also he would none of it but sent it to a third and the third to a fourth c. And so they posted it from one to another till seven had it The seventh and last Solon by name he made no more ado but sent it to the Temple at Delphi for a present to God acknowledging him to be onely VVise A marvellous confession for Heathens to make touching the alone wisdom of God Magistrates to look to their Attendants AS it is the eye of the Master which feeds the horse so it is that also which keeps good order If Mephibosheth cannot stir because he is lame in his feet and David have other business then to examine things to the full Ziba will play his part he will abuse his Prince he will defraud his Master It is a remembrance to Magistrates and men in place that they look on such as attend them and suffer not their approaches to be ill spoken of for the behaviour of those that are about them The blind swalloweth many a Fly and he that knows his charge but by Relation doth swallow many a gogeon God's Mercy above his Iustice. A Merchant that keeps a book of Debitor and Creditor writes both what is owing him and what he oweth himself and then casteth up the whole But ●od doth not so his Mercy is triumphant over his Iustice and therefore he wipes out what we owe him and writes down that onely which he owes us by promise much like the Clouds that receive ill vapours from us yet return them to us again in sweet refreshing showers The very consideration of this may be as a full gale of wind in our ●ails to put us on to load Gods chronicle with thankfulness writing upon our selves by a real Profession of his service as Aaron did Holiness to the Lord. Surely our Iudgement is with the Lord and our work with our God Acts 10. 3. Remedy for a hard heart to cure it THere is a story of an Earl called Elz●arus that was much given to immoderate anger and the means he used to cure this disordered affection was by studying of Christ and of his patience in suffering the injuries and affronts that were offered unto him And he never suffered this meditation to pass from him before he found his heart transformed to the similitude of Christ Iesus Now we are all of us sick of a hard and stony heart and if we ever desire to be healed of this soul-damning disease let us have recourse to the Lord Iesus Christ and never leave meditating of his breakings and woundings for us till we find vertue coming out of him that the great heart-maker may become a great heart-breaker unto us Grace sometimes seemingly lost to a child of God MEn seek for keys sometimes when they are in their pocket And they think they have lost some Jewel when it is safe locked in their desk yea or as the Butcher looketh about or for the Candle that sticketh in his hat and he carryeth it about with him on his head and seeketh it by the light of that which he seeketh as if he had it not about him not remembring suddenly where he stuck it So the godly are oft in their own conceit at a loss when yet that they deem lost is sure and safe they miss many time God's grace in them and seek for this grace by the light of the same grace which yet they see not in themselves thinking that they are out of God's way when indeed they are in it and out of favour

rapacity and drunkenness so soon he declared his censure of them with this exclamation I confess that your Religion may be good your devotion good your Profession good but sure your hospitality is stark naught Apud quos ne Deus quidem biduò commorari permittitur that you will not give your God two days lodging Here now was a sad occasion given for the Enemies of God so to judge of them that seem to make profession of his holy name This the shame of Christians the disparagement of Religion when it is forced against the nature of it to encourage lewdnesse This an abuse of the promises of Grace of the Covenants and pledges of Grace which are the Sacraments when encouragements to evill are derived from so mercifull Indulgence Again it is a dishonour done to the honour of Grace and Godlinesse when from the Sermon which forbiddeth such a sin we shall immediately run into the sin forbidden by the Sermon and so give an unhappy occasion for weak ones to be offended The loss of a faithfull Ministery not to be sleighted And why so GAlinus the Emperour when tydings was brought him of the loss of Egypt Well said he let it go Cannot we live without the Flax and hemp of Egypt And when he had also lost France two great and mighty Countries What said he Cannot the Land stand sine sagis trabeatis without those Souldiers Cassocks which France doth send us This was a piece of Heathenish stupidity But if ever it shall come to pass quod avertat Deus that the Ministers of the Gospel should be driven into corners let no good Christian make slight of it but be deeply affected and affectionately taken with the loss For they are such as watch for our souls the comforters of Sion the Sons of Consolation spirituall fathers repairers of the breach such as stand in the gap of Gods anger spirituall Physitians Doves which bring the Olive leafe of peace to the troubled soul and what not They are sanguis mundi when they dye or fail a Man may justly feare the World 's a dying they are the butteresses and pillars to uphold it from ruine and confusion grievous then must it needs be and matter of great concernment when such are taken away The secure Worldlings suddain ruine LOok upon a weary Traveller scorched with the heat of the Sun how he resteth himselfe under the shady leaves of some fair spreading Tr●● and there falls asleep so long that the Sun coming about heats him more then formerly so that he is ready to faint his head akes and all his body is as it were stewed even in its own sweat Thus it fares with the Men of this World such as having wearied themselves in heaping up the things thereof lye down and sing a foolish Requiem to their Souls mean while the course of their life runs on the Sun comes about Death overtakes them and instead of a comfortable shade to refresh them they may easily perceive the fire of Hell if God be not the more mercifull ready to consume them A child of God preserved by God though never so much slighted by the World THey that work in Gold or Silver let fall many a bit to the ground yet they do not intend to lose it so but sweep the shop and keep the very sweepings safe so that that which they cannot at present discover the Finer brings to light Thus the World is Gods Work-house many a dear child of God suffers and falls to the ground by banishment imprisonment sorrow sickness c. but they must not be lost thus God will search the very sweepings and cull them out of the very trash and preserve them What though they be slightly set by here in this world and lie amongst the pots no better accompted of-than the rubbish and refuse of the Earth God will finde a time to make them up amongst the rest of his Jewels Mal. 3. Ult. True knowledge never rests on the Creature till it center in God the Creator AS the Legend speaks Historically which is onely true Symbolically of St. Christopher that before he was converted to the faith he would serve none but the strongest He had for his Master a Man of great strength and puissance but a King subdued him Him he forsook for that King but finding him to be overcome by a Neighbour he betook himselfe to that other Pagan Conquerour This Conquerour was also tyrannized over by the Devill to whom he was a meere slave doing all his base commands This he could not endure but entered into service with the Devill For awhile he admired the power of his new Master and what a dominion he exercised over the sons of Men but in a short space he found out his weakness also so feeble and fearfull was he of a piece of Wood he durst not passe by the Cross but when that stood in his way he must by all means back again Now the weary servant longed to know what this Cross meant that he might find out a more potent Lord It was told him that Christ was the Lord of that Ensign and that the Cross was his Banner Thither then he flyes and there he found out a most mighty yea an Almighty Master So true knowledge never rests on the Creature till it center in the Creator aims at none but the highest and climbs from strength to strength from height to height till it appear before God in Zion higher than Riches in their Treasury then Princes on their Thrones then stars in the Firmament fetching all her light and comfort from God in Christ Iesus How it is that wicked men are said to hasten death BErnardinus Senensis a devout man tells of a stripling in Catalonia being eighteen years of age that having been disobedient to his parents fell to robbing and being hanged on the Tree and there remaining for a spectacle to disobedient children on the next morning a formall beard and gray hairs appeared on him as if he had been much struck in years which the people hearing of and wondering at the suddennesse of the change urging how young he was at his death A grave reverend Father of the Church being then present said That he should have lived to have been so old as he then appeared had he not been disobedient The devout man it 's probable may be out in the story but the other was in at the application For Stat sua cuique dies every mans daies are determined the number of his months is with God he hath appointed him his bounds that he cannot passe there is a measure of his daies in respect of Gods prescience and providence But in respect of the course of nature the thread of life which might have been lengthned is cut off by Gods command for sin as in the Family of Eli and the People of the

his brother ran in unto him and shewed them that he had but one hand and that he lost the other in defence of his Countrey whereupon there was none that would throw a stone at him And thus it is that Reproaches and Sufferings in the cause of Christ are notable marks to safe-guard us in the time of trouble It was Ieremiah's plea O Lord thou knowest remember me and visit me know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke This is the evidence that a gracious heart hath to its self that God will spare him when others shall suffer from his wrath For the more any Man is called to suffer in the cause of God and when he finds his heart ready and willing to yield to God in suffering the more evidence he may have to his Soul that when others be called to suffer from wrath he shall be spared this being the bottom of the Psalmists prayer Remember Lord the Reproaches of thy servants how I do bear in my bosome the Reproach of thy mighty People Mercies of God to be particularly recorded to Posterity THe Iews as the Rabbines do observe the night before the Passeover are wont to confer with their Children on this wise The Child said Why is it called the Passeover The Father answered because the Angell passed over and destroyed us not The child said Why do we eat unleavened bread The Father answered Because we were forced to make haste out of Egypt The Child said again Why eat we sowr herbs The Father said To put us in mind of the afflictions in Egypt c. Thus ought we to deal in all the great and marvellous kindnesses of God to speak publiquely of them for the generations to come with David to tell what God hath done for our Souls to declare his glory among all Nations and his wonders amongst all People The Prince must speak of them to his subjects the Minister to his People the Master to his servants and the Father to his Children Parents not to be forsaken though they be Infidels and Wicked WHen S. Iohn had baptized Chrysippa the Governour 's Wife of Pathmos she presently thereupon would forsake her unbelieving husband By no means that must not be S. Iohn told her that he had a Commission to joyn her to Christ but no warrant to keep her from her husband and therefore he suffered her not to depart but commanded her to return unto her house again It is also written of S. Martin that he lived with his Parents that were Gentiles and performed all good offices to them as became a good Christian Child because the Church of God when she receiveth any one to Christ doth by no means acquit the obligation of that Law which bindeth a Sonne unto his Father Thus we are not with the Prodigal to run out of our Fathers house not to contemn them that begat us but to condemn their impiety if they seek to mislead us For it is not to be believed that God which commanded us to honour Father and Mother would ever bid us to forsake them And therefore if any Man hath an Infidell to his Father let him not be perswaded by him to do any disservice unto God but continue his obedience to him and in so doing he shall receive the reward of his duty and the Father shall find the punishment of his Iniquity The Martyrs Wellcome to Heaven WHen a Father sends his Sonne abroad about some earnest businesse and he meet with much difficulty in the way and come home in rainy tempestuous weather How gladly doth he entertain him the whole Family are ready to tend upon him one makes a fire another gets him dry cloaths a third is busie in preparing somewhat to comfort his wear●ed spirits And thus the People of God when they meet with hardship in the Pilgrimage of this World and suffer even unto death for Righteousnesse sake whether they be Martyrs in will and in deed as S. Stephen In will and not in deed as S. Iohn In deed but not in wil as the Innocents When they come and meet with Christ for whom and in whose cause they have suffered How shall they be received With what wellcome shall they be entertained What Riches of glory shall they enjoy in the highest Heavens for evermore They shall have Crowns upon their heads palms in their hands long white robes upon their backs and shall sit at the right hand of God when all their Persecutors shall stand like so many base unworthy Creatures before them The Formal Christian discovered LOok but upon a Pageant on some triumphant day what a goodly shew it makes without how it is carried on Mens shoulders Oh but look then again within it and you shall find little substance onely a few gilded laths and pastboards things of small concernment Then again a May-pole stands on high deck'd with ribbons and garlands on the top gazed upon by all Men O but it hath no rooting no sap to preserve it Such are all Formal Christians top and top-gallant they have fair gilded out-sides some certain general notions swimming in their heads but as the Apostles phrase is they are not rooted not principled their heads are uncatechised and their hearts unsanctified they make a goodly shew have abundance of form but no power of Godlinesse in them The Printing of Learned Mens Works instrumentall to Gods glory IT is the opinion of some Learned Men that the Saints who are now triumphing in Heaven have an augmentation of glory bestowed on them according to the good they do after their deaths as by Sermons preached or books printed while they were living Instance is given in the Apostle S. Paul whose glory in Heaven say they is increased according as Men are converted by reading of his Epistles Which doctrine if it be true will be a might●y encouragement to perswade the Friends of deceased Ministers and other Learned Men to publish the Sermons and Works they leave behind them Howsoever whether this be true or no sure it is that by the publishing thereof especially when perfected after their deaths much glory is brought unto God and much benefit to the Souls of the living Reproaches and Sufferings made Honourable by God IT is said of Ioan Conntesse of Shrewsbury that in the midst of a dance at Court she let her garter sall at unawares and blushing at the accident the King took it up in his hand whereat the Nobility smiled Well sayes he I will make this an honourable ornament ere long and upon that came the Order of the Knights of the Garter the Garter being an Ornament of the highest Nobility such as Kings wear about their necks as an Ensign of their Princely Order Thus if Man can put honour upon such mean things then God muc● more It is he that ennobleth Reproaches and sanctifieth Afflictions to his Children and maketh the sufferings of his servants

little to cover their great eyes they do sleep with their eyes somewhat open and shining which hath occasioned it to be supposed that they slept not at all But most true it is that Iesus Christ who is the keeper of Israel neither slumbreth nor sleepeth never shuts his eyes but hath them alwaies open upon the Just he winks not so much as to the twinkling of an eye He alwaies stands Centinel for his People and ever looking about him to see if any danger be approaching he watcheth over his People for good Times redemption THere is mention made of Archias a Lacedemonian that whilst he was riotting and quaffing in the midst of his cups one delivers him a letter purposely to signify that there were some that lay in wait to take away his life and withall desires him to read it presently because 't was a serious businesse and matter of high concernment Oh said he seria cras I will think of serious things to morrow but that night he was slain Thus it is very dangerous putting off that to another day which must be done to day or else undone to morrow Nunc aut nunquam Now or never was the saying of old If not done now it may never be done and then undone for ever Eternity depends on this moment of time What would not a man give for a day when it is a day too late Let every Man therefore consider in this his day to day whilst it is day to do the things of his peace least they should be hid from his eyes and so whilst like a blind Sodomite he grope to find a dore of hope sire and Brimstone rain about his ears from Heaven against which he hath so highly offended Men not easily brought to believe the Worlds vanity A Gentlewoman some piece of Vanity no doubt being told that the World and all the glory thereof was but Vanity Vanity of Vanities all 's but Vanity so said Solomon 'T is true said she Solomon did say so but he tried first whether it were so or not and so will I Thus it is that most of us are very hardly drawn to believe the Worlds vanity as that he Wisedome thereof is but enmity with God the riches thereof nothing available the Honours thereof but dependant and apt to lye in the dust the pleasures thereof but momentany and all of them such whereupon may be truly written Vanity but here 's the misery Men will not take Gods word for it that it is so they cannot believe till ●or scarce when they see The World hath bewitched them before they will believe it to be a Witch neither will they believe it to be a poyson till they are poysoned therewith Every one to strive for eminency in Christianity A Ristides was so famous amongst the Athenians for his Justice that he was called Aristides the just when two came before him said he that accused the other O Aristides this Man did you such an injury at such a time as thinking by such a suggestion to have made him partiall in the businesse Whereunto Aristides made answer Friend I sit not here to hear what he hath done against me but what he hath done against thee O that Christians were so famous for holinesse and Justice that it might be said There 's such an one The humble such an one The meek such an one The holy such an one The just such an one The patient It could have been said so of Noah Abraham Moses and Iob c. And why should not every Man strive to be the like The Will of God to be resigned unto in all things THere is mention made of a good woman who when she was sick being asked Whether she were willing to live or dye answered Which God pleaseth but saith one that stood by If God should refer it to you Which would you choose Truly said she If God should refer it to me I would ee'n refer it to him again Here now was a good Woman and a good resolve well met And it were to be wished that there were many such in these loose licentious times of ours that would not be almost but altogether perswaded to lay aside themselves and their self-will and in all occurrences of time and all occasions of Interest whether publike or private to lye down in the dust and to submit to the good will of God whether it be for good or evill that shall in this life happen unto them The great benefit of Faith truly appropriated IN the Book of Iudges there is mention made of a War betwixt the Men of Gilead and the Ephraimites wherein the men of Gilead had the Victory and pursuit upon the Ephraimites but the men of Gilead having gain'd a passe upon the River Iordan over which the Ephraimites were to run homewards it so fell out that every single Man was forced to beg his way whereupon the men of Gilead question'd their Country Whether they were Ephraimites or not They poor Creatures being struck with fear answered in the negative They were no Ephraimites but the men of Gilead distrusting them commanded that every Man as he passed should clearly pronounce the word Shibboleth which signifies a Foord or passage whereby the Ephraimites were discovered for pronouncing Sibboleth instead of Shibboleth two and fourty thousand of them were put to the sword in that day Thus it is that all of us are to passe through the gates of Death and to give an accompt for what we have done here in the Flesh whether it be good or bad And then he that can clearly pronounce Shibboleth that can say with David Daniel and many others My Lord and my God that can by Faith appropriate the merits of Christ Iesus unto his own Soul and say with holy Iob I know that my Redeemer liveth shall enter into his Masters joy whereas he that lispeth out Sibboleth that with those five foolish Virgins and those other hopelesse Creatures shall without the least sense of Faith barely cry out Lord Lord shall be shut out for evermore True Grace in the Soul may be seemingly but not really at a losse AS it is amongst us in a Court of Record the Seal being once passed is as true a Seal and as good evidence in Law though the print be defaced diminished and not so apparent as any that is most fair fresh full and not defaced at all So it is that the least drop of true Grace in the Soul can never be exhausted nor the least dram of true spiritual joy be quite dryed up or annihilated And why so because that in the Court of Heaven when on a sealing day the Graces of Gods Spirit are stamped on the Soul it may and doth oftentimes so fall out that there may be afterwards a dimnesse of the Seal and the marks as it were may be worn out so that the