〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR A GLIMPSE OF Gospel Glory Together with a short but pithie Treatise of Mr. E. D. shewing thaâ— Peter was never at Rome to which 〈◊〉 subjoyned as an Appendix some pregnâ—â—â— Collections by that Grave and Reverend â—â—vine Mr. H. Nelson B. D. to a like purpoâ—â— The First Part. Hanc scilicet fallaciam scripturarum negleâ—â— in Christianismum bodie de Antichristo intruâ—â— Viricus Velenus Minhoniensis LONDON Printed by M. S. for Tho. Parkhurst at the Thâ—â—â— Crownes against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheap-side 1661. Vere Honorabili ac ter Reverendo Domino Roberto Saundersono S. S. Theologiae Doctori pridem in Celeberrima Accademia Oxoniensi Regio Professori ornatissimo jam vero Dioecesis Lincolniensis Episcopo Eximio minutae hae ab indigno authore Evangelicae Gloriae dantor humiliterque exhibentor scintillulae To the Right Honourable and very Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Lincolne the Author of the ensuing Treatise wisheth all Peace and Glory through and according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Lord of all My Lord I Doubt not but your known worth for learning soundness of judgement piety and conscience-satisfying skill and experience hath singled you out as a fit object of eminent honour from the publick Authority of this Nation who yet do appear more honorable in the esteem of conscientious Christians in regard of that truly Christian frame of Spirit remarkeably in you by your ready propensity in promoting of unitie manifest by your willingness to the taking away the hinderances thereof in these divided times the like disposition of mind would also be justly honorable in all of your ranke that substantial good in Religion might more be advanced but shaddows and seeming appearances less and the glory of Gospel grace above all other glories for which the Apostles rule is both general and peremptory 1 Cor. 14. 26. Let all things be done to edifying How might truth and peace by that means soon be settled in the Church which ought of all men to be esteemed of far greater value then all their worldly interests yea then a mans own dearest present life And truly so much as I know my own heart in my most retired thoughts I have often offered in these distractions amongst good men even my life as an expiation unto God if he would take it in any way of his faithful service upon that account so that I dying truth and peace might live and florish in this our Israel yet I may happily amongst some be deemed an obstructer of both but as according to my measure I have been studious of the one so according to your Honours ancient testimony of me I have followed the things that make for the other to the utmost of my power neither am I changed from my former principles though now in sundry respects I may not perhaps have the same freedome I confidently beleeve the soveraign hand of divine providence in special favour not only to my self but to many much better deserving persons hath in this juncture of time given you the inspection over us the consideration whereof with other special favours which you readily chearfully aunciently vouchsafed unto me with the observatioon of such your Christian frame of spirit still abiding in you whom new and eminent honour known learning sound judgment worldly interest or engagements appear not to have made either less humble meek peaceable or charitable and that man that is well moulded up from such materialls and in his better part as it were fitly compounded of four such elements must needs be of a good constitution such living Christians adde a glory to Gospel glory I would my small Mite here offered could adde unto your store yet if it doe but occasion you better to weigh and value what you already have to the praise of him that gives us all it may prove some advantage to you then I should be well appaid and shall thankfully returne the praise to him by whose remarkeable grace I have been carried on therein who as the Apostle speaketh Colos 1. 29. striving according to his working who worketh in me mightily Yet one thing more doth move me to this address I have long since known you a strong Champyon of sound truth against Popish errours witness your ancient conditions of dispute against Mr. Ford well worthy of the worlds view and profitable for such use which happily deterred him from proceeding In the same general cause many times appeared your reverend father and my worthy friend Mr. H. Nelson to whom about thirty years now past I communicated a short but pithie discourse of Mr. E. D. a reverend person related to him from whom I received it and since also to my self which hereunto I have annexed which your good father so well approved of notwithstanding all Antichristian flourishes to the contrary that he was pleased to write some notes of his own upon it some of which I transcribed into the margin I cannot say all and whose collections to like purpose as an Appendix I have also subjoyned thereunto which after many years lying aside unthought of upon my late removal were offered to my view upon the perusal whereof I considering the known gravity and piety of both the Authors with the worth of their workes fit to antidote such weakelings as are lyable to that danger against the strong contagion of that popish pestilence by beating down the main pillar of that foundationless fabrick no wonder then the prophetical spirit Rev. 8. 18. 1. reitterates her ruine Babylon the great is fallen is fallen Vt ingens pondus mole sua ruens as an huge and mighty pile weltring downward by its own weight since her supposed foundation failes her yea is discovered to be but a lye which I here likewise tender unto your Lordship but not with further expectation from your self in respect of this or the other to be approved then as they will endure the tryall by the Touchstone of all saving truth the written word of God and consonant to sound judgment and reason and answerably thereunto a blessing from his divine Majesty thereupon to whom in that case all the praise will be due and to whom in the mean time his prayer shall be presented before the throne of grace in the behalf of your self your deare yoakefellow and all yours that he would largely display the spiritual glory of Gospel grace in and unto all your soules to a greatertransformation of them into the same Image by the Lord the Spirit as followeth to the inlargement of all your eternal glory who is My Lord Your Honours long obliged though unworthy servant in Christ W. Sherwin From my study July 1661 TO THE CHRISTIAN READER and more especially to my Honored Friends and Kinsmen Thomas Bowles of Wallington Esquire and Mr Tho Bowles his eldest Sonne with the rest of that Family a choice and chiefe part of my late Charge
clean thing out of an unclean saith Job not one God put at first a living soul into a body made of clay but the body did not thereby become of the same excellency with the living soul but this work of Gospel grace hath such a matter as is of a divine wonderfull and incomprehensible excellency which we must not understand Materiam ex qua as in worldly things but circa quam not corporeall but notional and intellectual not matter subjectivè but objectivè as the Schools distinguish that is to say the matter of this work is so conceived rather in respect of our understanding than the realitie of the thing which is beyond measure glorious Thirdly But to come to the third respect wherein it is more glorious than all the other fore-named works and that is in the many wayes considerably more excellent foundation of this work the more wisely advantageously and surely any great undertaking hath its foundation layd the more excellency it addeth to it and if this be not provided duly for the greater the undertaking the more hazzard the more cost and labour the greater disappointment and losse Hence because warre is a great undertaking by men therefore saith One With good advice make warre Now the gloriousnesse of Gods laying the foundation of this work will appeare greater than of all the other in these particulars following First The foundation of this is more profound and more deeply layd than of all the other Secondly That it is more secretly and hiddenly layd than of all the other Thirdly That it was a more difficult foundation to be layd in severall respects than of all the other Fourthly In that it is a foundation more surely layd than of all the other First The commendation of the profoundnesse of a foundation is as it is layd in the due proportion to the greatnesse of the work undertaken whereof it is the foundation now the greatnesse of Gods work in decreeing revealing carrying on and accomplishing his glorious work of grace is infinitely excellent in all dimensions intensive extensive yea beyond all dimensions mentall or reall eternally infinite which cannot be said of any or all his other works as may thus be evidenced First In that this most glorious work was not undertaken for them but contrarily they were all undertaken and are carryed on for this they were and are but the Substrata for this and it is their greatest excellency that their beeing is in reference unto this Secondly In that this most glorious work is not subservient unto them but they all along unto it ever since their first beginning and must be so untill they cease to be God makes use of all his inferiour actings in the world amongst all sorts of creatures in all times as subservient one way or other to this glorious Grace Thirdly In that they or any or all of them are not the end of this most glorious work but contrarily this is the very end every way chiefly considerable wherefore they were or may be done hereafter it is their finis operis operantis it is their finis intentionis durationis that is this is the end they were done for the end why God did them he purposed them for this and no longer to continue but for this viz. till this great mystery of God should be finished as in Rev Secondly The next particular considerable which we named in the excellency of Gods laying the foundation of this most glorious work is the secrecy of it it is an hidden foundation this follows in some sort from the other yet all foundations that are deep are not secret they may be searched out they may be discovered they may be revealed they may be inlightened but this was a secret hidden in Gods own counsell alone when all the other foundations were open to men and Angells yea this was not nor could be known till himselfe made it knowne nor any further then as he was pleased from time to time to cause it to be further known by men or Angells and only rightly known to those good men to whom he himselfe and his holy Spirit are pleased to reveal it and make it known unto and it is not only in generall in that respect of the great mystery of God but in respect of particular persons all men know not in this sense the great mystery of Godlinesse nor the mystery of the kingdome of Heaven though they often heare it and heare of it but they only to whom it is given Mar 4. 11. Yea to all others the mystery of God and the mystery of Godlinesse are mysteries indeed hidden from their eyes And hence things peculiar to the faithfull are said thus to be hidden they have an hidden life with Christ in God the hidden Manna the name in the white stone that none can reade but he that hath it Rev 2. 17. Hidden waters of life drawn by the secret hand of faith out of the Rock Christ they have the hidden man of the heart which is acceptable unto God 1. Pet 3. 4. And yet all these though they be hidden from the world are well known to them and herein God wonderfully glorifies himselfe in his most wise counsells that the secret issues of them cannot be discovered by any enemies though he sees all their secret and foolish counsells to the contrary and laughs them to scorne in all things for he hath determined to disappoint them all in all they mainly drive at and what ever devices are in their hearts his and only his counsell shall stand Pro Thirdly The next particular we shall consider in the laying of this most glorious foundation is that it was a more difficult work to lay it in several respects then any of the other not more hard in respect of God for to his power and wisdome all things are alike easie the greatest as well as the least but in regard first of the nature of the work secondly of the opposition that was and is and will be made against it while the world standeth all which time Michael and his Angels fight with the Dragon and his Angels First The laying the foundation of this work was hard in regard of the wonderful excellencie which was therein to be shewed and infinite wisdome power mercy justice holyness goodness faithfulness and truth and so transcendently that nothing in the whole world in any of these respects is to be found like it nothing to be compared with it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a received position that excellent things are hard here then being the greatest excelency must needs be the greatest difficulty Secondly Hard by reason of the great and strong opposition that would ever be made against any appearance of any thing of this work in the world when God laid the foundation of it he perfectly knew what would be the hatred violence subtilty of the devill to oppose it at every turne in the world he perfectly knew the interest the
and to my present more soundly intelligent or tractable hearers at my Lecture at Baldock grace truth and glory from God the Father through his Beloved Sonne and by the Lord the Spirit now and for ever CHristian Reader who ever thou art I wish thee a no less affecting discovery of Gospel glorie unto thy Soul in the reading of these Sermans then I have found in the preaching and transcribing of them for these are the times foretold Isa 11. 9. When the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea though men are such High-landers they care not for comming near the bankes of such waters nor the margins of such books which as Conduite pipes would convey those waters to them As unthankefull Israel of old they loath Gods heavenly Manna though Angels foode falling neer their tents be it never so strengthning wholsome or pleasant their pallats being distempered they are not pleased with it but they will have quailes though they have a plague to boote with them for while the meate was in their mouthes the wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them Psal 78. 30 31. If men loath Gods delicates and begin to surfeit of their own superfluities it may be expected that he come to them as a skilfull Physitian and give them a strong purge and make the chosen or young men of Israel to bowe as the words signifie and well will it be with them on whom it workes a cure to rectifie their taste and affect their soules with the bread of life I offer thee here but a small demensum or cantling of this bread thou art not like to surfeit by it and if thy taste agree with mine I think thou wilt not loath it it was cordiall to my own soule as made of the kidneys of Gods own wheate his glorious grace being the subject of it And for you my well beloved and worthy friends who formerly had by my weak hand the substance of these delighting and inlightening truths pointed out in some sort unto you happilie they were not by meanes of the craft of Satan then so much regarded or since considered by you and I am conscious to my self that they were neither then so largely or perspicuously set before you as here you may have them if God give them enterance into your soules I hope you may say with me you discearne them better then you did before And you my more late and more soundly intelligent hearers supposing you to be such as thirst after true grace and upon that account desire your share in the discovery of gospel Glory I must acknowledge there hath been a threesold obstacle thereof in my Late preaching of this and other subjects to you namely a dark pulpet a dim sight and a weake memory though all graciously supplied both then and now by the assistance of a good God to which I may add a fourth perhaps the ground too of all the former to wit the great imbeeilitie and weakness of my animal spirits and declining state of body by years and labours with much variety of afflictions troubles and vanities of this present world much decayed and wasted were not my defects frequently supplyed in my service by my almighty and heavenly father so that I might say with our Apostle 2 Cor. 12. 10. That when I am weake then am I strong namely through my God for otherwise I have unspeakeably more cause with him to say though I be nothing vers 11. sutable to an observation of an old disciple declared in my hearing in the presence of many grave learned and religious persons as found most remarkeable from all his long experience namely that God was all and he was nothing which excellent lesson who so rightly learn though they be nothing yet they both are and shall be the better in Gods account because they so know this and acknowledge it for if God be no loser at their hands they may be sure they shall be no loser at his hands who delights to put his most precious treasure in empty vessels filling the hungry with good things Luke I. whilest many wise in their own eyes are meer fools in Gods whilst many rich in their own conceit are found by Christ as the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3. to be poore naked and miserable But to you my more weak but teachable hearers let me say a word to prevent your prejudice perhaps you may stumble at some passages exprest in unknown tongues to you first let me tell you sometimes such expressions by such as understand them I doubt not but will be acknowledged as observable or of special force again some are more pertinent and occasionally delivered the Apostle Paul disdained not to quote Heathen Authors recorded in the sacred Scripture in their own language but more especially let me informe you if you be indeed teachable that I have indeavoured to prevent your disadvantage thereby by explaning usually after them the words or sence in your native language so that you need but pass by those unknown expressions and still you have the sence and then they will be in effect to you as if they had not been at all and so with my prayers for you and all other right Christian readers of this my weak outward indeavour to promote the discovery of gospel Glory unto you unto him who undertakes this work effectually by blessing his own meanes even the Lord the Spirit as in the Text that you and all they may have all the good thereby which is intended unto those upon whose souls God is pleased to set home such truths for their spiritual advantag and godly edifying by reducing them from error convincing them of truth inciting them to good reclaiming them from sin for the better information of their understandings inflaming their affections with what is spiritually good conforming their wills to his revealed will reforming their whole conversations according to his appointment and with and above all such a transformation of their souls into the same Image as in the Text that in the end that real transformation in the state of Grace in such soules may in Gods good time be perfected in the consummation of glory with him in his everlasting kingdome there to be rendring to him that glory which is his due to all eternity which will be the perfection of their happiness there so prayes Your soules weake yet desirous to be their faithful Servant in the things of the Lord. W. Sherwin COurteous Reader be pleased to take notice that this small Treatise being about to come forth divers moneths agoe was stopped by the sudden death of the first undertaker of the publishing thereof by which meanes those into whose hands the Copy thereof did fall not having the directions left by the Author with the deceased party and another reverend and judicious friend that had promised the oversight of the press who upon either the omission or mistake of some
shining forth of Gods most free and infinite grace unto men and Angels here and hereafter which as our Saviours expression is to all single-eyed beholders is obvious to be discerned yea there is no part of the foundation or fabrick of the whole work wherein it doth not wonderfully shine out to such soules in their better temper at least which if it do not unto any at least when they are themselves it is because they are not as in the Text transformed into the same Image if the glory shining in the work of the Creation when that was finished was the reason then wherefore the Lord blessed the seaventh Day Sabbath and hallowed it that his people might have a weekly opportunity to worship and celebrate his praise for the innumerable benefits conferred on them by Creation then how much more may the glory shining much more brightly when Christ Jesus our Lord having finished the whole work of redemption by his resurrection gloriously triumphed over all adverse powers of darkness occasion him the Lord of the Sabbath to put it over to the first day and is justly therefore by his holy spirit intitled to himself the Lords day our Christian Sabbath Rev. 1. 10. even when in the highest raptures he communicated so divinely to that beloved Disciple the great things to be accomplished in reference to the Church and her enemies to the end of the world now as the perfected glory of the Saints hereafter shall swallow up the inchoate glory here or as the glory of the Lord our redeemer seems to ecclypse the lustre of the glory of the Lord our Creator as the shining light of the sun doth the brightness of the Moon when they appear both together in our hemisphere even so is the glorious forme and beauty of this work transcendently above the other Fifthly The largeness of the time or continuance allotted for this work above all the other excellent illustrations of it First Creatio fit in instanti so the Learned Creation is done in an instant the whole work was finished and celebrated in a weeks space at first sustentation is the continuance of that for a limited time and Gubernation here is but while this course of nature or Creatures or rather supportation in their rankes from God is so variously disposed of in such wonderful manner after the good pleasure of his will but the time allotted for the contriving effecting applying confirming carrying on and perfecting this most glorious work of Gospel grace is not only a long time but all time and not only time but eternity too yea all eternity in reference to the eternal and coequal Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine nature Now this illustration of the length of time for raysing a work may more clearly appear from a threefold evidence First of nature the baser sort of creatures soon come to their height of stature as is observable in varieties of sorts of plants and beasts and fowls Secondly in Reason the more excellent the nature of a work and the more accurately it is to be wrought the longer time is required to provide for it to accomplish it Thirdly in experience both of Nature Art by all which the long continuance for the raysing of this work may be manifest above all the rest which is an other of its excellencies unto which let us now adde the Sixt Namely in regard of the way and manner of the raysing of this work by the constant shining out of the wonderful glory of the Father Son and Holy ghost all the time it is in raysing Oh the unspeakeable splendor of the wisdome and power of the grace and goodness of the mercy and truth in reference to all the holy persons in that undivided Trinity made evident therein from the beginning of the world and shall be to the end thereof in such glorious mnnifestations continually breaking forth through all successions of Ages as can never be sufficiently admired nor much less celebrated with praises both from men and Angels in all things that concern the way and manner of the revealing exhibiting as will be of the perfecting of that most precious grace from and by those sacred persons derived Whether we respect the sufficiency the sureness the efficacy the happiness in such way and manner continually held out and communicated unto the world First sufficient to make up all the Creatures wants to answer all their doubts Secondly Sure to remove all their fears settle all desirable security to them Thirdly Effectually to carry on against all obstacles and to accomplish all and more then they could hope for or desire Fourthly To administer what ever good they are capable of receiving to make them perfectly blessed let your thoughts be inlarged upon these particulars I must leave them as the dry bones in Ezekiels Prophesie till the Spirit causeth flesh to come upon them to cover them for I feare to be tedious even in a subject so precious and pleasant to such as have interest in it but therefore not pleasant unto others because they find not any to themselves yea they know it not and therefore they desire it not yea they are not willing to know it least they must loose those Idols wherein they take more pleasure But thus much at presenâ— of Gods own undertaking in the most sutable manner to all his own most blessed purposes respecting both himself and his creatures according to his own good pleasure as we shall indeavour afterwards to shew and is evident from all passages to this purpose in holy writ unspeakeably above what is to be found in any other his great and glorious works here being a way for the magnifying of the riches of his free grace only revealed in his word which is therefore magnifyed above all his name as the Psalmist saith remarkably Ps 138. in such a concurrence of all Divine excellencies as is no where else to be found since there and there only we have the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. 6. Seaventhly In regard of the subordinate meanes of raising up this work not here to speak of the chief the holy Spirit as proceeding from the Father and the Son for we shall have occasion to speak of him afterwards as the Lord the Spirit the prime efficient cause of the efficaciousness of all other meanes but only of his inferior means such as Angels men extraordinarily inspired ordinarily qualified ordinances sanctified and providences and many other means oâ— Creatures sometime at his pleasure blessed to be in some sort instrumental in this work For sometimes to use Angels in it was an honour to it but to have used them alwayes would have been terrible to weak and fraile Creatures besides otherwise incommodious to them when as to use mans ministry is natural familiar affecting as being of the same nature and lyable to the same miserie capable of the same happiness
and then put together the words to know the sence of what they from time to time may reade in any or all the books of God in this world set forth for their learning wherin God sets before all sorts of men new lessons of all kinds if they would not be such dullards and trewants that they will not take them out look then upon the letters of Gods great folioes in the world the Creation the upholding the disposeing and ordering of it and all things in it Look first to the motions illuminations and influences of the heavens look upon the successions of times dayes and nights winter and summer seed time and harvest but thou wilt say how shall I put these together and make sillables and sentences of them look unto the 19 Psalme and there the word of God shall be thy schoole-master herein it tells thee the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmaments sheweth his handy-work and day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth language that is they hold out matter for thy understanding knowledge or experience to work upon such works of God to his praise and glory so again Gen. 8. 22. Gods word instructs us that seed time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter day and night shall not cease which is another syllable to spell the truth of God by in such things how that he hath ever since the destruction of the old world fulfilled that his promise in times of plenty the Psalmist shewes how he crowns the earth with his goodness Ps 65. 11 when all sorts of Creatures are full of rejoycing and comfort the Scriptures informs us to spell out thereby Ps 145. 16. That God openeth his hand and satisfieth the desire of every living thing and so to come to thy own particular case and condition in outward things thou mayest spell out words and sentences by the help of many instructers which God allows thee as thy Reason if rightly regulated thy own and others experience observations examples of others Gods judgements providences mercies and all sorts of outward Dispensations of God whereby thy capacity may be raised up toward the attainment of higher learning by degrees upon thy well using thy first rudiments of Divine knowledge for they should all discover God unto thee and so thou mayest by degrees come to attain a good measure of skill in the truly liberal sciences in the schoole of spiritual and heavenly grace or glory if the use of the former bring thee not neerer to God they will make thee go further from him as it was with the Gentiles Ro. 1. 21. Because when they knew God by his outward works they glorified him not as God neither were thankful therefore he gave them up if such works of God discover him not more unto thee they will cause him the more to hide his face from thee as is observed of some skilful experienced Physitians they know and see so much of the secret operations of Nature that by that means they become more Atheistical forgetting and neglecting the God of Nature they pore so much upon the excellencies of the Creatures which they think they know and make use of by their own skill industry for their temporall advantage that they therefore forget and neglect the Creator and the glory therefore due unto him and doth not this Atheisme grow upon men for the want of spelling the words and sentences of Gods ordinary Books in the world by the teaching of his Word whilest men would chuse rather to be thought great Naturalists and Politicians in the world by others when without that teaching they become meere naturalls fooles and Ideots rather than soundly judicious persons in that which mainly ought to be knowne observed and acknowledged by them to the glory of the all-working God Secondly Let this direct such men as have learned to spell out Gods names in his outward works by the help of his Word then to set themselves better to reade him in his word of grace let them know the principles of his Religion and know the maine foundations of his divine truth especially let them take notice of these two maine principles of such excellent knowledge First That all glory is to be rendred unto God as the only true Originall of all good And Secondly That all emptinesse is ever to be ascribed to the creature in it selfe further than God makes it any way capable of goodnesse and puts such goodnesse into it or makes it communicative of that goodnesse unto others or of further enlargement or longer injoyment of goodnesse from himselfe even as he pleaseth unto whom the praise thereof is ever therefore to be ascribed and if thou wilt but then take up that teaching word and use those meanes which God thereby directs thee to improve them and continue therein he will then more and more discover himselfe unto thee yea when once thou art set in such a serious seeking of him this way it is evident thou wert sought of him before and he hath begun already to make himselfe knowne unto thee and so thou dost and wilt seek him still and shalt finde him more and more in that way wherein thou shalt behold his glorious grace which is the sure way for thee to become acceptable unto him and shalt be truly blessed by him Thirdly But for others who have these glorious discoveries in any good measure already made unto them Let them hence learne with the most inlarged apprehensions that may be to behold them and with the most earnest bent of their affections to entertaine them and with the highest and fullest expressions of joy in their inward and with their outward man to mainfest and declare them to the everlasting praise of the Author of them let them improve them to his glory and the good of others let them more be transformed into the image of them that they may have the greater measure of true comfort and glory by them Againe Let men wisely hence observe the divine excellency of a truly gracious spirit when once a transfiguration is made in it what an excellent yea heavenly frame is put uponit what glorious discoveries are made unto it what celestiall Joyes are put into it what everlasting happinesle is prepared for it O that these things were setled upon mens souls and that they could with such divine meditations and spirituall Soliloquies by the assistance of the Lord the Spirit so rivet them into their own hearts and keep them there that they might still soar higher and higher in such heavenly contemplations till they attaine to the top of most glorious eternitie to receive in fullnesse what here in their measure only they can but taste of Againe Let them hence learne to be thankfull above all things in this world for such gracious discoveries in any measure or degree by their good God vouchsafed unto them Let them be humbled in the sence of their unworthinesse thereof as great as manifold