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A05259 The mothers blessing. Or The godly counsaile of a gentle-woman not long since deceased, left behind her for her children containing many good exhortations, and godly admonitions, profitable for all parents to leaue as a legacy to their children, but especially for those, who by reason of their young yeeres stand most in need of instruction. By Mris. Dorothy Leigh. Leigh, Dorothy. 1616 (1616) STC 15402; ESTC S113606 65,870 296

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him till they feele the spirit of God working in their hearts and that will stirre them to continuall praier But the wicked want faith to goe in the name of Christ and this is the cause there are so many wicked praiers in the world for they that make them haue no faith in Christ and without him they haue no promise to be heard and therefore wanting faith to come to Christ they goe to the Saints to pray for them and yet the Saints did neuer promise them so to doe neither doe they know whether the Saints heare them or no. Againe some pray in latine when they doe not vnderderstand what they say nor what they pray for but the holy Ghost saith Pray with the spirit and pray with the vnderstanding also Why say they God knowes our harts we pray with the heart God knowes indeede that their hearts are vaine and foolish because they doe not pray with vnderstanding and therefore they haue no promise to be heard yet they will haue a paire of beades and tell how many prayers they say though they cannot tell what they say I dare vndertake a parret might pray as well they doe if it could speake all the words They pray while they liue that they may goe to purgatory and when they die they giue much goods to others to pray that they may come out of purgatorie againe these are most vaine praiers neuer warranted by the word of God They pray also to our Ladie to helpe them much as the Israelites praied to the Queene of heauen and as the Israelites praiers were accepted so are theirs But I pray God for Christs sake that you nor none of yours may make such praiers And I pray God to blesse his whole Church that their praiers may bee right and faithfull for prayer is the key which openeth vnto vertue Oh Lord let not our praiers be turned into sinne for then the gates of thy mercy shall bee shut against vs. Wherefore wee humbly beseech thee giue vs the spirit of truth that we may pray rightly which if we doe wee must needs search the scriptures see there how Christ teacheth his Disciples to pray When ye pray pray on this manner Our Father which art in heauen c. And whatsoeuer praier is not on this manner is wicked and vngodly And yet here you see there is neither praying to Saints nor Angels neither praying for the dead nor to the dead and therefore all such praiers are wicked and are the ouerthrow of those that vse them But Christ saith When thou prayest enter into thy chamber and when thou hast shut thy doore pray vnto thy father in secret and thy father which seeth in secret will reward thee openly vse no vaine repetitions as the heathen doe for they thinke to bee heard for their much babling but whatsoeuer yee aske the father in my name that will hee giue you Aske and you shall haue seeke and you shall finde knocke and it shal be opened vnto you If your children aske you bread will ye giue them a stone or if they aske you fish will you giue them a serpent If ye which are euill can giue your children good gifts how much more shall your heauenly father giue the holy Ghost vnto them that aske it And this was a great mercy in Christ not onely to bid vs pray but also to promise that whatsoeuer we aske the Father in his name wee should haue it and hee appealeth to our consciences how wee would deale with our children if they aske vs any thing and giueth vs warning wee should vse no vaine babbling and telleth vs wee should aske in one word the holie Ghost without the which wee are miserable wretches which if we haue we inioy all happines and peace for hee must bee our Comforter and bring vs vnto Christ and hee will bring vs vnto his Father Christ also willeth vs to aske the Spirit of truth because hee will inlighten vs and shew vs the way of all happinesse and because our faith should be strengthened to aske the holy Ghost hee also promised vs to send him to teach vs all things and bring all things to our remēbrance without which we are like a house which is built faire on the outside but there are no windowes to shew any light at all into it and then the house is good for nothing because there remaines nothing but darknes in it euen so darke is to earth of Adam which we are made of that though wee seeme neuer so faire on the outside yet if wee haue not the holy Ghost within vs we can neuer see to finde the way to Christ and then it is vnpossible to come vnto the Father and so consequently wee must needs perish for Christ saith No man commeth to the Father but by mee And heere you see that those that put their trust in Saints to pray for them haue no promise to be heard and it shewes that they are not inlightned by the holie Ghost to see the way to Christ and they themselues will confesse thet they dare not goe to Christ which sheweth that they haue no faith to beleeue his promises nor will to obey his Word For Christ saith Come vnto mee all yee that labour and are ladē I wil ease you Here you see that he leaues out none but cal's all sinners vnto him and promiseth that he will ease them I humbly beseech God to giue you and euerie of you to the worlds end grace to pray to God for the holy Ghost And I pray you let me request you to pray to God continually to inlighten you with the holie Spirit that the holie Ghost may bring you to Christ so Christ to bring you to his Father and then shall you raigne with them for euer and euer world without end Which God grant for Christs sake our only Mediatour and aduocate CHAP. 31. The benefit of the holy Ghost SEeing some pray not at all and others pray falsely doe yee often and earnestlie pray for the holie Ghost for I will tell you what hee will doe hee will inlighten you and vnite you to Christ and giue you grace to rule ouer all your affections and make you able to bee masters of your selues where on the contrarie side they which haue not the holie Ghost written within them are mastered and ruled by their owne filthy affections and so become seruants to them but if yee haue the holie Spirit yee shall bee able to say to your selues as the master saith to his seruants Thou shalt doe this and Thou shalt doe that Thou shalt not sweare nor blaspheme thy God Thou shalt not drinke and swill like a beast neither shalt thou come in companie among such c. Reason thus I will ouercome thee by Gods grace thou earthen potsheard which broughtest mee nothing and wouldst thou now confound all these excellent graces which it hath pleased the
in your vocation and be sure you pray morning and euening and at noone and at all times heare and read the Word of God meditate on that day and night and follow Christ and take holde on him by faith let that be all your care and for your bodily goods take no care If you dare not trust God with your bodies who feedeth them as you see euery day how dare you trust him with your soules which you cannot well discerne by reason of your earthly nature You haue a promise for your bodies if you wil serue God and keepe his Commandements and yet many dare not trust him they vvould serue him with all their hearts if they durst trust his Word If they should loose their mortall bodies it were but a small matter for they must haue an end And for your soules you haue but his Word and promise vpon condition that you follow Christ and take hold of him by faith now if you neglect the condition the promise is void and yet you say you durst trust God with your soules vvhen you neuer goe about to keepe his Commaundements you neuer follow Christ nor take holde of him by faith nor haue you any experience by your bodies for you neuer durst trust Christ. David saith I haue killed a Lion a Beare and therefore I dare venture on this vncircumcised Philistine If he had suffered the Lion and the Beare to haue ouercome him hee had neuer ouercome the Giant then had he neuer bin made the Kings sonne So if thou wilt ouercome that great Goliah thou must first kill the Lion and the Beare thou must first ouercom the temptations of the world if thou meanest to ouercome the diuell and so bee made the Kings sonne of heauen CHAP. 39. Against immoderate care OVr Sauiour saith Care not for to morrow let tomorrow care for it selfe the day hath enough with his owne griefe Heere you see that our Sauiour pitties you that you will take such care and willeth you that you should not take care for the next morrow because you do not know whether you shall liue till then or no for Christ sainh Thou foole this night will they take away thy soule from thee As if Christ should say I thou dyest with taking care for this world thou losest the kingdome of heauen and thou shalt lye burning in hel fire Then doest thou not shew thy selfe a foole to take so much care for this world since thou knowest that hell fire is before thee and thy goods are behinde thee and thou knowest not who shall inioy them If thou thinkest thy children shall thou knowest not whether they shall liue or no or spend and waste them wickedly as thou perhaps hast gotten them or whether they shall bee other waies depriued of them or no. A thousand wayes may separate thy sonnes and their goods asunder thou knowest not but that the world may end thou knowest not what shall become of thy goods or whether any body shal inioy them or not and to say the truth some of you make sure worke that none shall inioy them for whosoeuer getteth thē were better bee without them if they bee not gotten in the feare of GOD and then they cannot bee enioyed in the faith of Christ for it is vnlawfull to haue stolne goods in thy house and thy goods may bring a punishment vpon thy children and therefore thou art a foole to take any care at all for or about these things and thou art a foole because thou doest care yea and spend all thy care about these things Thou knowest if thou doest not spend thy tune in the feare of God which is but the beginning of wisedome and in the faith of Christ which is the end and finishing of wisedome thou thy selfe thy body and thy soule shal lye burning in hel fire for euer and euer and there is no meanes for thee to be deliuered Thou maist turne thee and tumble thee in the fire of hell and canst neuer get out wonder at thy selfe that thou wert such a foole to take care for those things which thou shouldest neuer know what became of them and take little or no care for thy self when thou knewest thou shouldest come to this miserable and wretched ende that should neuer ende Here in the world none dare call a rich-man foole but Christ saith he is a foole that setteth his heart on these worldly things But if by taking care for worldly things he misse heauen fall into hell hee will call himselfe a thousand millions of fooles that omitting better things he would take care for this world which is worth nothing nay it is worse then nothing for his own conscience wil tel him if he had had nothing hee should haue cared for nothing and so hee might haue serued GOD and gone to heauen and hauing something his care was so much to compasse more that indeede he had gotten nothing but euerlasting torment And now he knoweth not what to doe sometimes he thinkes I would I might creepe thorow tenne thousand hells and bee ten thousand millions of yeares in crawling thorow them to go to Christ and then get faith take hold on Christ for he knoweth now that none can come to God but by faith in his sonne for the which hee would now take all the paines that could euer bee deuised to obtaine that faith in the end and yet he thought whilest he was in this world that one Sermon in a moneth would haue serued him to haue gotten that faith but hee seeth he would not beleeue the word of God for Gods owne word willed him that he should not labour for the meate that perisheth but for the foode of euerlasting life And least hee should doubt of these things which God saith Christ saith Consider the Lillies of the field they labour not neither spinne they I say vnto you that Salomon in all his glory was not cloathed like one of these If God so cloath the grasse which is here to day and to morrow is cast into the furnace will hee not do much more for you Oh yee of little faith Heere Christ tels them that will not beleeue his promise and follow his counsell they are of little faith And the holy Ghost telleth vs that faith commeth by hearing of the vvord preached and Without faith it is impossible to please God and there were neuer any saued but by faith nor there were neuer any damned but for want of faith For the holy Ghost saith Hee that commeth to God must beleeue that God is and that he is a rewarder of them thot seeke him He did not beleeue that God would prouide for him in this world and saue him in the next because he wanted faith And he wanted faith because his delight was not as Maries was to leaue his worldly affaires to heare the Word preached Hee could not pray that hee might profit by the
goe to the Church but there will be little but I say vnto thee I feare that thou wilt not learne that little If God for thy disobedience wil speak but a little to thee that day yet thou hast a great deale to say to him confesse thy sins shew thine obedience be an example to them which would stay frō the presence of God pray for his grace vpon thee and them the whole Church appeale to the promise of God When two or three be gathered together in his name he will be with them pray that GOD may send his word plentifully for Christs sake although our sinnes deserue to haue it taken away altother seek to doe some good to the poor although there be but a poore company of you gathered together Moue the people to prouide themselues a Preacher tell them of their wants speake to the Magistrates mourne to see the Alehouses full and the Church of God emptie CHAP. 43. The seruice of the Sabbath ought to be be publike SOme will goe to the Church of God in the forenoone and in the afternoone they will serue God at home but thou canst not doe God so great seruice at home serue him six daies at home and the seuenth go to the Church of the Lord if God bee truely worshipped there as I pray God he euer may bee in our Churches to the worlds end and I pray God you may bee true worshippers of God And alwaies in the Church of God both forenoone and afternoone let there be one the more for thee But of this I warn you for the loue I beare to your soules bodies if you cannot get the people to prouide a Preacher w ch may dispēce the Word truly sincerely remoue you where you may haue and heare the Word so preached for where the Word of the Lord is not truly preached the people perish for want of knowledge But if you can get a Preacher where you dwell and doe good both to your selfe and others I thinke it better so for the haruest is great but the laborers are few therefore pray the Lord of the haruest to send forth labourers into his haruest for the true laborers indeed are not few but verie few for as the holy Ghost saith All seeke their own and not that which is Iesus Christs All is taken heere as it is in many other places for the most part for the most seek their own nay it would seeme well if some would be contented with their owne but they seeke more then their owne if they examine themselues well they shall find it so whereas the true Preachers of Gods word will be contented with lesse then their owne so they may win soules vnto Christ they care not They count al the world dung as indeede it is so they may bee Christs and draw many to him I hope in God that through his grace som of you wil be preachers I pray God for Christs sake to enlighten you with his Spirit and giue you grace that you may betruly godly and very zealous for the glorie of God labouring by all meanes possible to encrease the glorious kingdom of Christ. And of this bee sure if you will lose nothing of your own you will neuer winne manie to Christ and marke how the holie Ghost saith They seeke their owne He doth not say They seeke more then their owne but They seeke their owne As if he should say as indeede hee meaneth They busie themselues about seeking their owne but in the meane time they neglect the great worke and the great businesse that I haue set thē about to gather together the souls that Iesus Christ the Son of God shed his heart bloud for contrarie to all reason they look for their wages before they haue done their work S. Paul which was called to be a Preacher of the Word of God saith Woe be to me if I preach not the Gospel But hee doth not say Woe bee to mee if I seek not goods He saith Necessitie is laid vpō me to preach the Gospell But he doth not say Necessitie is laid vpon me to get goods Yet some of them will say they must not lose their goods right rather they must go to law for them but contrary to the Law of God they neglect their duty in his Church they doe not studie how to diuide the word of God aright to giue to euery one that which is fit for him What doth the holie Ghost call negligent Preachers but dumb dogs that will not barke The dog will barke and giue warning to the whole household within if anie danger be neere but those that shold deliuer my message vnto the people they busie themselues about their owne affaires they slumber and delight in sleeping they will not call out to the people and giue them warning of the danger that is neere them I pray tell me or let any man tell me if he be a good seruant which will goe about his owne busines and neglect his masters or no no man will account of such a seruant but will cast him off for naught euen so God will cast them off for naught that seek their owne neglect the diligent seeking of that which is Iesus Christs CHAP. 44. The honourable calling of Ministers stained by worldlines I Must needs say I haue bin verie desirous and haue of ten begged of GOD that some of you might be Preachers yea and all of you and yours if it might please his diuine Maiestie to bestow such graces vpō you as were meet for so high a calling But God knowes I neuer desired it because you should get any thing in the world but because you should get seruants to God and soules to Christ and because you might be so enlightned with the Word through the holy Ghost working within you that you might make no account of the world as indeede it is nothing nay it is worse then nothing for nothing doth no hurt and the world doth much hurt I pray not for the world saith Christ but for those thou hast giuen mee out of the world those that though their bodies be in the world yet their hearts their minds and their affections are as high as heanen If you be risen with Christ seeke those things which are aboue where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God set not your affections on things which are on the earth but on things which are in heauen I pray GOD for Christ his sake you may bee of those which Christ prayed for those which haue their mindes and hearts busied about heauenly things neuer taking care for the things of the world Woe is mee which feare lest anie of you or yours should loue this world but if it please God that anie of you heereafter should bee a Preacher and loue the world I cannot expresse the greefe it would be to me euen so long as I were in the world If
almightie God to bestow vpon mee in Christ no by the grace of God I will rule ouer thee or else I will pine thee I may say with Saint Paul These are the messengers of Sathan to buffet mee I will pay to my God to assist me and his grace is sufficient for mee I knowe thy nature thou art like an vnrulie colt that if he be pampered fed and well kept hee will throw his master vnder his feete and cares not what become of him so hee may be rid of him and then hee runnes whither hee list himselfe although hee fare much worse then he did before euen so is it with those that become subiect to their affections they are as hard to be ouercome as a wilde colt which manie times is like to be and sometimes is the vtter destruction of his master therefore your resolution must bee to deale with your stubborne and rebellious affections as you will deale with a pampered wilde colt and say vnto them By Gods grace I will not bee ouermastered by you I scorne to serue so beggerly and so base a slaue as thou art I will bridle thee and thy headstrong stout proud scornefull and disobedient vntemperate vnholy high-minded froward couetous and idle disposition for there is no goodnes in you by nature but by Gods grace I will temper you I wil make you humble patient chaste quiet and diligently to fall to some labour you shall neuer be idle for that will bring you to nought And this must be the victory betwixt your selues and your affections and then the holy Ghost will teach you to master your selues and not suffer you to bee subiect to euery filthy motion of the flesh Further hee will teach thee all things and bring all things to thy remembrance as God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble He that committeth adultery sinneth against his owne body and maketh the Temple of God the temple of an harlot He that wil not worke let him not eat He will giue thee faith to quench all the fiery darts of the diuel Therefore pray for the holie Ghost in all temptatious he will be with thee in them strengthen thee to ouercome them hee will be with thee in the houre of death when all thy friends thy pleasures and profits will forsake thee and then he will bring thee to Christ and therefore pray for him and acknowledge his great mercy in Christ who hath taught thee thus to pray and whatsoeuer thou neglectest neglect not priuate praier and howsoeuer thou doest seeke for continuall knowledge that your praiers may be according to the Word of God for if they bee not such then are they turned into sinne and then thou hast nothing to relieue comfort or reconcile thy selfe to God againe for as concerning all the sinnes that a man hath fallen into through the frailtie of nature he hath beene reconciled to God by faithfull prayer but if your praiers be not at all or not as they ought to bee then all your helpe is in vaine CHAP. 32. God accepts weake Prayers IT is a very weake Prayer that God will not accept if it be rightly made I speake thus much because I would not haue you discouraged and thinke you had as good not pray at al as pray weakly for the almighty God accepteth your obedience and wel meaning that you will prepare your selues to pray as wel as you can But if thou see thy selfe neglect priuate prayer be sure that satan hath somthing to worke against thee and by this you may vnderstand that there are none that euer did or shall perish but it was because either they did not pray at all or else because they did not pray as God hath warranted them in his word Me thinks if I were a man and a preacher of Gods word as I hope some of you shall be and I pray God for Christs sake you may I surely perswade my selfe that through Gods grace I should bring many to pray rightly which now pray vnaduisedly or not at all But those that haue gotten a custome to pray after the inuention of men and contrary to the word of God as to pray to Saints to pray to Angels to pray to our lady to pray in a tongue they vnderstand not to pray to the dead to pray for the dead to pray to goe to purgatory these I say you may pray for that they may not vse such prayers any longer but to perswade them is almost as vain as their praiers Yet once againe I say vnto you Pray for you haue no promise except you Pray Aske and you shall haue saith Christ he doth not say you shall haue whether you aske or no but he saith Aske and you shall haue Was not this a great mercy of our Sauiour Iesus Christ to proffer vs if we would but aske we should haue Surely I thinke hee were a very vnworthy person that would thinke much to aske a thing for which he might be the better foreuer If a master should say to his seruant when such a lease comes out aske mee for it and I will let thee haue a verie good peniworth in it because thou hast spent thy time in my seruice and in attending vpon me therefore I would haue you get something to liue vpon hereafter to defend the world withall that thou maiest not begge when thou art old and this were a very reasonable thing Now the Master being a worthy man and fully resolued to do his seruant good when the time comes he considers with himselfe at how easie rate hee may set the rent of his farme for him to liue vpon and yet giue some attendance vpon him still The time being come he expecteth when he should aske but if the seruant thinkes much to aske it is tenne to one but his Masters minde will bee cleane altered although he were neuer so fully bent to deale liberally with him and saith to himselfe If it be not worth the asking it shall bee worth the keeping or If it be not worth the asking it is not worth thanks and very likely hee will thinke worse of his seruant then euer hee did before because he would not aske it and thinke he is growne proud and scorned his gentle offer Now if the Master will not giue his seruant the thing so promised because he wil not aske him although indeede he ought in conscience to giue him something for God faith Let not thy seruant goe away a poore man how dost thou thinke thou shalt receiue the thing which our Sauiour hath promised vpon the same condition that thou shouldest aske when thou hast deserued nothing at his hands but he of his own free mercy hath bought thee and paid a deere price for thee and thou hast done nothing for him but forthy beggerlinesse he biddeth thee aske and thou shalt haue What canst thou looke to obtaine when our Sauiour Christ hath precisely told thee thou
Word preached because hee had no knowledge by the vvord to see his wants He had no knowledge because hee did not continually heare and read the word which would haue taught him to haue knowne God and himselfe If hee prayed sometime without knowledge and faith his prayers were vaine and friuolous And thus he seeth it was his owne negligence that brought him to hell because hee would not labour for the meat that perisheth not and now hee is so vexed at himselfe because he did not follow the counsell of our blessed Sauiour Christ that took such paines for him and gaue him so many warnings and told him how hee should finde it if he would follow his counsell that hee would now if it were possible bee reuenged on himselfe as Iudas whē he had done that which Christ had warned him of and saw that now it could not be vndone hee laid violent hands on himselfe to be reuenged vpon himselfe But when they see they cannot bee reuenged on themselues nor no way can mitigate their torment then they are ten thousand times more tormented with torments which cannot bee expressed then they will defie Sathan crie out against the world they loued so well and say Sathan laid all his baites by the things which are in the world yea manie baits hee laid and tooke manie euen with things that were lawfull to bee vsed in the world by the appointment of God as you shall see Meat is ordained of God for the nourishment of man and yet how manie doth Sathan take with the sinne of gluttonie and therefore take heede that thou eatest temperatelie Meat is ordained for the belly and the belly for meat but God will destroy both them and it Drinke is verie lawfull yet how manie doth Satan take with the sinne of drunkennesse and therefore Christ saith Take heede lest at anie time your hearts bee ouercome with drunkennesse and surfetting and cares of this world Mark this counsel of Christ Lest at anie time As if hee should say bee continuallie carefull lest thou art ouercome with surfetting and drunkennesse and cares of this world for thou mayest surfet and bee drunken with anie thing thou takest care for in this world And therfore Christ saith Take no care and doe not say What shall wee eat and what shall we drinke and wherewith shall we bee clothed for after these things seek the Gentiles And your heauenly father knoweth you haue neede of these things But first seeke the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and all these things shall bee ministred vnto you Oh the mercie of God which would tell you that your heauenly Father knew that you had neede of these things and hee would giue you that he knew sufficient Seeke ye the Kingdome of heauen and these things shall bee ministred vnto you Seeke yee the heauenly treasure and a little of this earthly trash wil serue the turne And if you knew all and how Sathan hath poysoned most of it you would be afraid to take anie of it But if you take nothing but at my hands saith Chirst Sathans poison shall neuer hurt you but if you beginne to bee your owne caruers Sathan will so sawce it with sweet poison that hee will deceiue the wisest worldling in the world And therfore see you take nothing but at the hands of the Lord for Sathan hath spred his net as the spider doth her webbe Now the spider lieth close hidden in a darke hole vntill the sillie flie bee entangled and then hee comes and taketh her as his owne and euen so Sathan lieth close vntill hee see you entangled within the things of this world and then hee claimeth the world and you and all for his owne CHAP. 40. The poyson of outward things SEe how Sathan hath poysoned all things in this world as apparel with pride honour with haughtinesse beauty with vanity recreations with swearing riches with couetousnesse a thing clean against reason for the naturall man would thinke that hee which is rich neede not be couetous and yet it is commonly seen the more rich the more couetous Yea and euen our vertues how doth Sathan seeke to poyson them as for liberality how doth hee seeke to poyson it with prodigalitie and honest labour with carefulnesse And therefore S. Iohn saith Loue not the world nor the things that are in the world for the loue of the world is enmity to God Then some worldly man will say What shall we doe nothing Yes but see how soone the Diuel will lay a snare to entangle the withal that thou maist be idle the verie bait with the which hee catcheth all for many desire goods that they may bee idle and the Diuell hath most leisure to talke with a man when he is idle and idlenesse bringeth a man to manie vaine recreations and so to much eating and drinking and to manie wicked sinnes The holy Ghost saith that we shall giue account for euery idle word that wee speake and therefore thou maiest not bee idle by anie meanes Thou must labour sixe daies for GOD hath commanded thee so to doe and thou must doe it not for anie care thou hast of the world but because GOD commanded thee and thou must shew thy selfe obedient to him and all thy care in thy labour must bee how to please him and leaue the successe of thy labor to him and thou must be carefull in thy labour that thou takest no care for thine owne profit nor thine owne pleasure but how to please God and then let it please thee but be sure it please not thee and offend God And thus thou must labour sixe daies and follow the commandement of God and his example after whose image thou wert made and whom thou art to imitate hee laboured and made in sixe daies these things for thee labour thou to obey him hee laboured and looked ouer his worke and saw it was good So thou must labour and looke ouer thy worke and see that it bee good before God Though there are manie imperfections in thee yet because thou art reconciled to GOD in Christ and now shewest thy humble obedience to his commandement that thou wilt neither bee idle nor yet labour for thine owne profit nor plesure nor doe thy owne wayes but see that thou dost those things that hee hath appointed thee taking hold of Christ by faith hee accepteth them for good through Christ who hath fulfilled all for thee for obedience is better then sacrifice Then also thou must rest the seuenth day for so for thy ensample he rested commanded thee to rest that day and to keepe it holy to the Lord. Now he commandeth thee to leaue all earthly businesse and attend vpon him and heare what further instructions hee hath for thee how to strengthen thy faith how to take hold on CHRIST and how to come to his kingdome Now thy care must be how to learne at his mouth to keepe his commandements