to render vp to the Lord our speciall callings and talents with their well-occupied encrease And lastâ—y as to the best keeper our bodies life and soules beseech his Grace as he in mercy and of his vnspeakeable loue gaue them vs and all temporall and spirituall good things with them hee will now in like fauour and mercy receiue them againe and keepe them safe for vs vntill the day of iudgement and then bestow them and himseâ—fe vpon vs grant we may euer be with him and he with vs. 8. In the last agony of death we must draw vnto vs al strength of body and soule now in this â—ast combat quit vs like men As 1. we are to rest by faith vpon the preseÌ„t fauour mercy of God in Christ perswading our hearts soules that now Neyther death nor life nor Angells nor Principâ—lities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be abie to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord Râ—m 8. 38. 39. and so plucking vp â—â—r broken hearts shew our selues to be that which long we laboured for viz. to be true Christians 2. Then let heart tongue and voyce bee imployed onely in prayer to God for patience in our anguish for comfort in this our greatest distress for strength in our temptations and for wished and victorious deliuerance from them for a godly end and a ioyfull receiuing and conducting of vs by his holy Angels vnto Abrahams bosome yea endeauour to dye praying for now our weapons be but prayers teares sighes and groanes misery must caâ—l for mercy and let our last words be Lord be mercifull to me a sinnâ—r Lord Iesu receiue my soule Come Lord Iesu come quickly And thus with our â—iues let vs breake vp our watch And thus farre of our watch against Death yet there bee that for better keeping of a true watch and performing of this most necessary necessity thoroughly contriue this preparation vnto a weekes worke or weekely Diarie sorting for euery day of the weeke vnto themselues certaine deuout exercises and meditations so as though they were to die presently that day as thus The first day of the weeke they wholly spend in this meditation that they are mortaâ—l and must die and therefore they so vse and dispose of the commodities of this life and their callings as though before night they must hence labouring to obey that coÌ„mandement of Christ Luk. 12. 35. 36. Let your loynes be gâ—rt about your lights burning And ye your selues like vnto men that wait for their Master when he will returne from the wedding that when he commeth and knocketh they may open vnto him immediately Blessed are those seruants whom the Lord when he commeth shall find waking c. and so set their house in good order for they must die The second day they spend in meditating vpon death the precedents and horror thereof to whom they willingly yeeld yet so that by faith in Christ true repentance and renued obedience they sweeten the taâ—t sharpnesse thereof whereby they shall be able they doubt not cheerefuâ—ly comfortably to drinke of this cup Math. 20. 22. 23. The third day they thinke vpon their sins and with broken and contrite hearts confesse them to the Lord. Psal. 32. 5. 6. 7. and that with such vehement feruency of spirit earnest sweating agonie in soule as if within that day or houre they shuld by death be attached The fourth day with their greatest deuotion and most careful preparation they come to the holy Communion which they call viaticum and so victuall themselues therewith for reliefe in their iourney to heauen ioyning therevnto the reading and preaching of Gods sacred word applying the same to the present purpose so nye as may be suting and agreeing with Christs last Sermon in the Chamber before his death Iohn 13. and 14. 15. and 16. not without prayer and praise to the holy Trinity I he fift day they spend in meditation and prayer for the more liuely and effectuall working of Gods holy Spirit in their harts the better entertainment of Gods sacred word in their soules and opening of their eyes to see their weakenes wickednesse and accursednesse and for wished power to ouercome all temptations assaulting their soules specially at their death-time The sixth day in all humblenesse of heart and feruentnesse of deuotion they pray for a spirituall death wholly heauenly free from all doubtings greefe temptations or fears with an infallible sight of the Sonne of God in some though small manner most comfortable feeling apprehension of the ioyes of heauen contempt of this world with the perfect fulfilling to them of all Gods promises made to them for the life to come and that whatsoeuer holy duty is in them wanting by ignorance or weakenesse the holy spirit of God would suggest vnto them and supply that so the whole glory might be the Lords and to them in life and in death Christ should be aduantage Phil. 1. 21 and that walking through the valley of the shadow of death they should feare nothing for the Lord would be with them and his Angels safely conduct them to Paradise The seuenth day they giue hearty thanks to Almighty God for the innumerable benefits bestowed vpon them spiritually and temporally beseeching his maiesty to continue the same so far forth as hee seeth expedient for them vowing to make the rest of their life if any part be remaining a perpetuall Sabbath vnto the Lord vntill they bee translated to his kingdome where with all his Angels and Saints they shall solemnize an euerlasting Iubilie then this day they vse a deepe meditation and repetition of all the exercises of the sixe daies going before and to euery of these dayes they select certaine fit Psalmes and praiers c. And thus according to my skill haue I charged my watch-man in the best manner I could deuise to prepare for death and when I haue done all I find my selfe vnable to finde the depth of this principle for want of experience which I cannot learne vntill I dye my selfe Onely this I know that albeit this watch be vnreprooueable and necessary for all Christians yet as we see in a Master of Fence if a strong champion set vpon him he will soone set him out of all his fence and make a foole of him so if Death assaile vs aboue our nature and strength wee will soone forget all these instructions and fall to cursing blaspheming and no man woteth with what violence death will assault him therefore would I wish him euer to lead a godly life and keepe a carefull watch annexing to the first obseruations this weekely Diary and that circularly that is weeke after weeke to renew it to our dying day and then to both to desire the Lord himselfe to watch ouer vs else all will be in
India as is in Sozomenus lib. 2. cap. 23. And a prisoner woman conuerted the Iberians Sozomenus lib. 2. cap. 6. And the king of Bulgaries sister conuerted that countrey saith Zonaras Athanasius but a child would reason with his plar-fellowes of the mysteries of religion Ruff. lib. 1. cap. 14. So the children of Samosata when Lucius an Arrian Bishop as they were at Ball-play had with his foote touched their ball they would not play with it vntill they had drawne it thorow the fire Crying their Ball was defiled by the heretiques foote Theodoret lib. 4. cap. 15. And no lesse worthy to bee remembred are the children of Merindoll in France who were so expert in the principles of religion that questioning one with another before the Bishop of Cauaillon with such grace and grauitie as was maruellous to heare thereupon a religious man come lately out of Paris said to the Bishop I must needs confesse that I haue often beene at the common schooles of Sorbone in Paris where I haue hard the disputations of the diuines but yet I neuer learned so much as I haue done by hearing these yong children according to Matth. 11. 25. Act Mon. pag. 868. Thus we see how Gods children watched ouer their babes from their infancie and what good effects it brought forth in and by them and so would with vs if we did the like the Lord open our hearts and make vs see how many millions of babes and infants come to fearefull designements by reason of parents sleepinesse and securitie in this behalfe Wherefore my next vse shall be to admonish and in Christ Iesus to entreat all parents to pittie their infants and while they be yong to nurture them in the feare and knowledge of God and that for these reasons among others 1. Because God commandeth it Deut. 6. 6. c. Eccles. 12. 1. Lam. 3. 27. Psal. 78. 4. 2. All the godly in all ages performed this dutie whose examples we should follow and further know that as the Iewes children were after the circumcision so soone as might be instructed in the Lords waies so should wee after Baptisme be in the lawes of Christ. 3. It is necessary for vs so to doe for all men know and confesse that Sathan spits and beares an implacable hatred to young babes and infants because they be the seede of the Church and therefore labours to draw and keepe them in all prophanenesse as he caused the Iewes by an Apish imitation of Abrahams offering of Isaack to sacrifice their children to Moloch contrarily Leuit. 18. 21. and 20. 2. So in Popery be Priests Monkes and Nunnes kept from lawfull marriage beget children and in the birth stifle them witnesse Huldericke Bishop of Ausbrough who in an Epistle to Pope Nicholas the first relateth how Pope Gregrorie the first vpon a certaine day sent vnto his fish pond for fish and aboue 6000 infants heads were brought vnto him which were taken out of that pond or moat whereupon he confessed his restraint of Priests marriage to be the cause thereof and if this was in one pond what was in euery place and at all times 4. Euery man is so full of originall as actuall sinne that vnlesse we be sanctified and from our cradles seperated to pietie wee shall neuer or very hardly be saued for looke what licour the new caske taketh it longest tasteth thereof and we reade how the figge tree was cursed though the time of figs was not yet Mark 11. 13. To teach vs to watch that at all periods of our liues we should be fruitfull in good workes and holy life and we see how the Beares tare in peeces 42. little children at Bethel that mocked Elisha their littlenesse excused them not 2. King 2. 23 24. 5. The yonger they bee in glorifying God the greater blessing of God shall light vpon them for admit they wote not what they say yet God who heareth the spirit speaking in them woateth and accepteth of their words as if they vnderstood them as we see in Math. 21. 15. Mark 10. 14. c. Psal. 8. 2. And we see how fearefull it is to heare a little childe sweare curse or name the diuell though he knoweth not what he speaketh all will presage that hee will approoue an vngratious childe and is of an vncleane spirit Let parents then as the Eagle and Pellican build their nests on high that the olde Serpent come not nigh their yong and know that the best in heritance they can prouide for and bequeath their children is pictie And heare would I willingly for comfort and ease in this long Watch for long a breeding but soone done away to parents giue some poore direction and open my mouth for the dumbe Prouerbs 31. 8. And speake with a stammering tongue precept vpon precept line vnto line there a little and there a little Else how will babes be taught knowledge Isa. 28. 9 10 11. Wherefore for the right institution of a childe I presuppose the parents to be religious and not of that number who wil laugh when their children sinne but weepe if they be godly addicted I would haue the mother who is the nurse else is no better then an Ostridge and worse then the Dragons which draw out the brests and giue sucke to their yong Iob 39. 17. Lament 4. 3. So to frame if she can her childes speech that the first word hee speaketh should bee God to perfume and sanctifie the rest of his words and meete this should be so for shee nurceth now the sonne of God and therefore should be taught to name and call vpon his heauenly father then to this word adde blesse me next Iesu saue me and blessed Spirit of God sanctifie me 2. As his vtterance encreaseth teach him at his vprising to say I praise God for my sleepe Lord keepe and blesse me this day and likewise to thanke God for his foode going to bedde to commit himselfe to the Lord euer being carefull that no vncleane thing nor person nor any of the children of the wicked corrupt him in word nor deede 3. Then in this progresse as wit and discretion with plainnes of speech commeth teach him by rote the Lords prayer then the beleefe after the Decalogue and so pithie questions and answers concerning the principles of Religion then some short graces which he is before and after his meals to say with some short prayers for morning and euening to say vpon his knees which will be all he can do the two first yeeres after he begin to speake that is vntill he be full fiue yeares old 4. Then to learne by heart some parts of the Bible as he groweth capable thereof And to this worke must the father likewise reatch his helping hand and if there be more children of riper yeeres in the house whom he vseth as his play-fellowes let them in their sports teach on another the elder the yonger and so their recreations
he printed An Herne standing vpon on foote vpon a dead mans tombe or a Crosiers staffe or sheephooke with a stone in the other clawe spying about and ready to fling it if he spied any enemy with this Impresse vnder a Bishop aluding to his owne name which signified so much intimating that a Bishop or Minister must as the Herne bee a continuall watchman ready to encounter with euery aduersarie of Gods truth and euer ouerseeing his charge remembring that a man with one foote in his graue he must die and render account of his stewardship but seeing I my selfe haue more neede to bee instructed of them and who of their owne accord are so wakefull and watchfull ouer their charges seuerally that for want of sleepe their eyes bee almost sunke in their heads and for want of rest their bloud and strength is out worne that few of them liue to the yeeres of the life of their fathers so few and euill their daies be for that they good men voluntarily take more weight vpon them then their weake nature is able to sustaine in so much that the image of death appeareth not only vnder their feete as to the Herne but in their faces also aboue all othermen Thus dying to the world and to all the comforts thereof and liuing to God The Lord God of heauen strengthen them lengthen their daies increase his graces in them blesse their labours and their flockes and make vs euer thankfull to God for them and obedient to their healthful admonitions and instructions And euer blessed bee the Lords holy name who hath multiplied the number of learned zealous Ministers in these our daies and countrey and that in greater aboundance then in any age before vs and those two men of singular hope full of Gods Spirit graced with most excellent gifts whose vertues and holy life in their yong yeeres doe shine farre aboue the gray heires of their forefathers would God we were but halfe thankfull ynough for so admirable blessings The ioy of the whole earth and the gladnesse of all the world that is the blessed hope of the Gospel shineth not a little in their gracious contenances the Lord encrease them a thousand thousand fold and giue them double and triple his spirit that they may be greater then all his enemies and abide euer faithfull that through them the King may reioyce the Magistrates be glad their fellow Ministers be backed and encouraged the people edified sinne abolished Idolatrie rooted out Antichrist ouerthrowne Satan troden vnder foote hell confounded the Gospell highly farre and wide flourish righteousnesse shineth God haue all the glory So be it and the Lord say so too and ratifie it Another vse serues for reproofe of a contrarie generation who in Scripture be also called watchmen but full sleepie and snorting euen at noone-day and therefore may as well be called watchmen of waking ouer their flockes as mountaines of moouing they are blinde they haue no knowledge they are all dumbe dogges they cannot barke they lie and sleepe and delight in sleeping and these greedie dogges can neuer haue innough and these shepheards cannot vnderstand for they all looke to their owne way euery one for his aduantage and for his owne purpose Isa. 56. 10 11. They eate the fat they cloth them with the wooll they kill them that are fed but they feede not the sheepe c. Ezech. 34. 3 4. And whereas the watchmen of Ephraim should bee with my God the Prophet is a snare of the fowler in all his waies and hatred in the house of God Hos. 9. 8. That is they should bring men to God and not to be a snare to catch and pul them from God which is abominable and what more lamentable then to see them so hard hearted that though the children crie for bread yet no man breaketh it vnto them nor affoord them on graine of salt to eate with their meate and yet as they bee improperly I grant called watchmen so are they caâ—led the salt of the earth Math 5. 13. And therefore should season the carnall and vnsauory soules of their people else they themselues are no better then vnsauorie salt If a Gentlemans table be laid and ouercouered with aboundance of meate and varitie of dishes yet if the meate be fresh and no salt vpon the table to what vse serueth all that prouision but to cast it to dogs salt is it that seasoneth all things so if a Minister come I will not say to Church and season not the soules of the people with the salt of the word but if he come to a Gentlemans house and sit at table if hee season not the company with the 〈…〉 rie salt of his diuine knowledge what is hee but the shame and disgrace of the company and contemned yea cast out and troden vnder foote as vnsauorie salt Whereas he ought both at Church and at home and else-where with this spirituall salt couer and cure the putrifactions and diseases of the people For heare it fareth with men liuing as with beasts dying which anone putrifies scrawle with wormes stinke and serue not for mans vse vnlesse in due time they be wisely and carefully salted so man when by sinning he looseth the life of God and becommeth wholly earthly minded hee forthwith begins to stinke and to scrawle with the wormes of carnall lusts and sensualitie with beastly and diuellish affection which not only fill the heart and soule but withall most fearefully come out at the mouth in scurilous filthie talke horrible and blâ—sphemous oathes and cursings and at the hands feete and whole body in most vngodly gestures actions and behauiour Whereby hee is vnsit for the table of his heauenly Father vnlesse the faithfull Minister forthwith steppe in and ouercouer it with his salt and so sweeten and purifie it againe else will all whoope at this vnskilfull cooke that spoileth all his Masters prouision for want of salting it in due time and who if he saw a Goliah come to a towne with full intent to murther and kill all the people therein would not rise against him but this is a murthering of the soules of a whole Parists if the Lord giue them not the more grace to prouide for themselues What more treacherous then to set a man a watchman ouer a citie who for a bribe will open the gate at first to the enemie to slay and spoile all and doe not these by their sleepie silence open for sinne and Satan to seaze vpon Christs inheritance regarding nothing but their priuate commoditie thinking when they enter vpon a liuing they enter vpon a farme to liue vpon or a flock of sheepe and yet watch not herein not so well as the shepheard of Bethlem did ouer their sheepe Luk. 2. 8. And who seeth not how foolish and dangerous it is to set vpon the walles of a citie besieged by the enemie a drowsie sleepie and sluggish watchman who can but snort all night in the
and yearely pay the Minister so much as thou reapest aboue thy paines and charges in gathering the fruits And faile not to binde thy posteritie in all ages to pay the Church this yeerely anuitie and holy tribute but if thou doe neither be assured thou shalt not long prosper for this is a crying sin against thee and thine And I doubt not but the Lord beholding the affliction of his Ministers the crueltie and vnmercifulnesse of these transgressors and the famine and oppression of the poore blind and â—ame of this land will in time stirre vp the heart of some Noble Nehemiah or godly Ebed-Melech to speake to our most gracious Soueraigne for redresse of this Maladie and so farre of this vse and remedie Hauing proceeded thus farre in the first member of watchfulnesse for this life present which in deede is most difficult and of largest scope and without which the other two are to small purpose and seeing that this weighty work concerneth all men all women all ages all functions and all dealings in the world yea in euery thought word and worke we must carefully watch for vnder euery stone lyeth a scorpion ready to sting vs to death and yet to enter to euery of these particulars were infinite I therefore for better discharging of the whole thought to annexe a few helpes to further you the more cheerefully to vndertake this watch with vndoubred assurance the Lord assisting to effect it to Gods glory your comfort Whereof the 〈◊〉 helpe to watch in all our affaires is for euery man to betake himselfe to a calling which will keepe him from idlenesse and many sinnes this calling is two-fold generall and speciall first the generall calling of a Christian is by all godly meanes ordained by God to endeauour to become truly religious according to the Lords gracious couenant made and sealed at our Baptisme the reasons why wee must make this our calling and daily exercise is first for that we are full of impietie originall and actuall and so liable to eternall damnation by due desert vnlesse we labour to abolish it and become godly and the nature and powerfull working of Gods religion is such that as a precious oyntment it perfumeth sweetneth sanctifieth with the graces of Gods Spirit the whole man otherwise is no better then an vnsauory carrion in the nostrils of the Almighty 2. Then the doctrine of eternall life is so heauenly profound and ample that we cannot in any sufficient measure be furnished therewith vnlesse we make a continuall labour and practise thereof so throughly are we inuenomed by the stingings of the old serpent and ouercouered with the leprosie of sinne that we are wholly vnnaturalized and vnapt for any good thing vnlesse we betimes enter into this holy trade of life this is our plough wherewith we must manure the Church gleebe of our hearts else it ouergrowes with bryers and weeds this is our paradise wherein we must euer be occupied in dressing it else it will become a desart full of Serpents heare must wee euer be learning else wee forget euer watching else our enemy preuaileth no sleeping in sinne then the enuious man soweth tares among our wheat no truce with Satan for then he conquereth no looking backe then vnfit for Gods kingdome The second helpe is for euery man to set and settle himselfe in a speciall calling and honest trade of life whereby he may get a sufficient maintenance both for himselfe his family and the Church and poore to Gods glory and good of his Church and this is Gods ordinance Gen. 3. 19. that all creatures should be of some speciall calling but man aboue all the rest else that he should not eate 2. Thess. 3. 6. to 13. And the law of equitie requires it that as wee enioy the fruits of other mens callings they should likewise of ours and so increase vnitie and amitie as bretheren and this is our paradise wherein we should euer be occupied else we walke not in the way of all creatures Satan excepted who is of no calling yet neither idle nor well occupied we walke inordinately busie-bodies troublers of such as walk in the callings open to all temptations and vanities and yet therein so conceited and wiser then seuen that can render a reason Prou. 26. 16. And such as at no hand can keepe true watch but euer disturbing and persecuting the watchmen of their soules excluded from the protection of Gods Angels a gracelesse generation and if you obserue what heauie iudgements befall the wicked you shall finde that they are cast vpon them by the hand of God when they ranged out of their callings as to Sampson by Dalila to Dauid in the matter of Vriah to Iâ—â—as going to Tharsus to Peter at the high Priests fire c. And contrarily that most of mens wealrh prosperitie commeth to them by their godly and painefull walking in their vocations But because worldlings would cast of their generall vocation to embrace this speciall only and idlers would not labour but pretend walking in their generall calling both complaine they cannot discharge both vocations in on day and therefore take it sufficient to serue God on the Lords day and themselues all the weeke daies I for satisfaction herein thus as in a diary digesting order both callings together and what is spoken of on daies worke may bee meant and applied to euery day First then so soone as thou awakest out of thy sleepe stand vpon thy watch and awake to God for the tempter with his vncleane suggestions is at hand and know that if our first thoughts be holy after our sleepe we be such if vnpure we be wicked then offer to God the sacrifice of prayer for thy sleepe and life and thine that so the Lord being first in account with thee may graciously hold with thee all the whole day 2. Then thinke of all thy sinnes thou canst call to minde and the punishments due to them temporall as eternall pray for pardon for them and be thankefull for thy happy deliuerance from them by Gods mercies Christs merits and working of Gods Spirit in thee which thou shalt the readier performe if thou think of thy death of Gods iudgement day of the paines of hell and ioyes of heauen of the vanities and afflictions of this life as of the momentanie pleasures thereof and how blessed are such as furthest estranse themselues from them and draw nightest to God in all Christian obedience 3. This done thinke vpon the discharging of thy speciall calling this day to Gods glory thy soules health and good of all men and the furthering of thy peace at thy death and of thy reckoning in the day of iudgement These meditations will first keepe thy minde from bad thoughts and Satanicall temptations secondly will sanctifie thy soule thirdly will be forcible motiues to prayers and thankes giuing and fourthly will cause the Lord draw neere thee and
22. 23. Luke 13. 23. 24. and euery mans conscience telleth him that if the Lord should call him to iudgement vpon a sodaine he should not be able to answere him one to a thousand Iob 9. 3. and 40. 4. 5. and 42. 3. and that there is no way but by carefull watchfulnesse to escape this doome and yet our eyes for all this are heauy for sleepe as were the eleuen Apostles in their greatest danger who could not watch one houre with Christ or if a lying Wizard should foretell that of many that passed that day ouer a bridge one should drop ouer drown all the passengers would see carefully to their footing though he were but a lier but when the holy Ministers out of the infallible word of God admonish them to watch they heere mocke and say the daies are prolonged but surely so dangerous a case admits no mocking we shuld hastily see to our watch and the rather seeing our Sauior hath blown his trumpet the day approcheth the summons are sent forth the sentence is drawn and we all wait but for his glorious coÌ„ming to denounce it therfore the while let vs as good porters watch at the gates of our soules that Satan step not out to cast vs to the dead sleep of sin or to steale vs from our selues there is not any of vs but hath a secret watch within to giue him timely warning hereof in euery thought word action we take in hand to tell vs that we for the preseÌ„t are liable to Gods temporal iudgment if we escape them not we must doubtlesse die and come to iudgement and this is the watch of our consciences Oh that we would regard it in time at euery stroke of the clocke bewaile how little good to further our reckoning against death iudgment we did that houre past and that we would consider that euery houre we are neerer and neerer to our end which if we did sadly remember we would not do amiss Many idle gentlemen for a brauery carry golden watches in their bosoms to warn them how their golden time passeth yet are the while neyther idle nor well occupied but no watch to this of thy Conscience if vvee would listen vnto it which runneth truely as well by night as by day and giueth vs a checke euery munute neuer standing still vnlesse it bee rusty or choaked altogether with the filth of sinne yet let vs know that when iniquity hath played her part vpon the Theater of this sinfull vvorld then vvill vengeance speedily succeed and set vp a tragedie bloudy and tedious without end rufull without mittigation and continuall without ease and release and look how many drams of delight heere thou impenitent wretch hast tasted of so many pounds of endlesse paines shalt thou there receiue the Comedy is short but the Tragedy is ouer-long bloudy and bitter Saue and protect vs good Lord from this Lake of misery worke in vs speedily true repentance faith vnfeigned with due obedience to all thy commandements that so standing vpon our watch and seruing thee euer in spirit truth wee may liue with thee euer in Heauen and as Ambrose in his funerall Oration for Theodosius supposeth that the Angells carrying his soule to heauen should in the way aske him what did he while hee liued heere vpon earth and hee should answer Dilexi I haue loued So we pray thee O sweet Sauiour both to prepare our selues while we be heere to liue before thee in all Christian watchfulnesse and so likewise for death and iudgement withall to grant vs thy holy Spirit grace in such powerfull and aboundant manner that when thy holy Angells shall gather vs from the foure windes to appeare before thy iudgement seat and thou the great Arch-Angell shalt aske vs what we did all the while wee liued hâ—ere we may truly and cheerefully answere both that we loued thee O blessed Sauiour aboue all and loued our neighbours as our selues and withall that we watched continually ouer our whole liues and against death and thy comming to iudgement O Lord grant vs this grace for thy great name sake To thee deere Sauiour with thy Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory giuen by vs both now and for euer Amen FINIS AN ADMONITION to the Reader GEntle Reader although the Printer hath desired and vsed his best care that this booke should come forth with fewest faults yet by reason of the duskie obscurenesse of the hand and absence of the Author dwelling farre off it could not be but some faults escaped vs not oâ—ely in pointing or mis-pointing in omitting or adding sometimes a letter and in the Sections eyther not placed or mis-placed but in omission and alteration of words obscuring the sense in some places which the godly Readers iudgement and diligence must helpe or charitably passe by and not impute them neyther to the Author nor the Printer And so Farewell Plunaâ—â—h in lacon apoph Iob. 29. 12 1 Sam. 18. 29. 19. 6 9 10 24. 17. 26. 21. 2 Tim. 1. 16 Mat. 19. 27 Phil. 3. 7. 8. 2. Cor 8. 5. 2. Cor. 9 15 Ambrose Isa 54. 1. Xeâ—phâ—â— in Oâ—coâ— citatur a Cicerone in Catone Math. 25. Aâ—â—eas Sylâ—ius de dictis Alphonsi 1 King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 47. Crag Haz. in Orat. â—uneb Athan. Xenoph. in Oâ—â—on Qui moneâ— vt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iam facis ille moâ—â—do laâ—dat hortatu 〈◊〉 probat acta suo â—uid de trist l. 5. â—lâ—g 14. Ier. 2. 32. 1. Tim. 2. 9. 1 Pet. 3. 3. 4 Caluin in Ier. 2. 32. â—â—ertius lib. 4. cap. 6. Mat. 13. 44 45. 46. Mar. 13 33 Eze. 48. 35. Ier. 31 23. a Citatur a 〈◊〉 in primâ— sex thesium b The occasioÌ„ of publishing this Sermon c Plin. lib. 8. cap. 36. Aclia 〈…〉 de hist. Auama 〈…〉 d Austin de doct Christ. li. 4. ca. 19. e Cicero de Orat. l. 2 de â—inib â—onorum li. 1. f Aust. contra faust li. 5. cap. 11. g Fabius Quintil. h Sutor vltra crepidaÌ„ i Iuter epist. Hypocra citatur a Rinald orat 13 k 2 Cor. 5. 13. l Angust ad Pascentium epist. 174. m Hieron dial 1. aduers Pelag. n Gal. 1. 10 o Hieron al Theoph aduers Ioan. Hierosolym p Iu MenaÌ„dro q Lib. de vtilitate ad hostib capiâ—nda r Cicero in C 〈…〉 s Ioan. Rainold Orat. 13. t Foxiuâ— The preamble Dan. 2. 2. Dan. 5. 3. It is a fearfull iudgement of God on man to see a iudgeeÌ„t and not to lay it to heart Xenophon liâ—â— 7. d 〈…〉 stit 〈◊〉 Herod 〈◊〉 Cliâ— It is vsuall with the wicked in the time of iudgement threatned to turne fasting into feasting more to depend on their owne strength then Gods power Pride a forerunner of iudgmâ—t Read 〈◊〉 6. Heroâ— lib. 1. Vse Gods iudgments are most neere to the wicked when they thinke themselues most safe The wicked euer hasten their