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And we are now lately called Protestants from the seven Princes of Germany protesting against the Pope's Supremacy but are indeed the true real Catholicks because we hold the Universal truths which were from the Beginning are and shall be so to the Worlds end the main of which is the Worshipping of God in and through Christ and loving Him and his Son for ever But many beyond Sea are called Lutherans Calvinists and Hussites for following those great Lights and their Doctrine But now this Righteousness of God Christ Abraham Jews Gentiles and Believers is called the Saints for two or three Reasons First Because it is this that makes them so Christ's Righteousness is our Justification and Sanctification too before God and it is that and his holy Spirit sanctifying of us which makes us Saints in the Eyes of God and before Men in this World too take three distinctions and they will end 20 disputes about this Point ☜ for Christ justifies us before God by his Blood Life and Death Faith that is the object of Faith Christ justifies us in our own Consciences so that it is not so much Faith in a strict sense as Christ by Faith Justifies us and that too And indeed Faith being imperfect at the best needs a Christ for Justification as well as other Graces though it still shews us Christ as in a glass for our justification and good Works which are really so and the fruits of God's Spirit namely good Works these do justifie us before Men And therefore says Christ let your light so shine before Men that they may see your good Works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven Mat. 5. 16. And says St. James Shew me thy Faith by thy Works and do not tell me so much thou hast it but let me see it by thy Works So that to God we must plead the Blood of Christ and nothing else and to our Consciences shew the Blood of Christ and witness all to others by good Works and a Godly Conversation and this is the Saints visible and invisible Justification And now had I the Tongue of Men or Angels 1 Cor. 13. 1. I could never enough set out the Blessedness or Blessednesses of Men or Women that do Hunger and Thirst that is Long Love and secretly wish and pray for day by day this Righteousness and to be found in it namely this of God and Christ and the sanctifying graces of his Spirit for they shall be satisfied yea they shall certainly be satisfied in the discovery of it and present comfort also yea in the everlasting wearing and enjoyment of it in the highest Heavens For as Kings Cloath all their Yeomen in their Gold Embroidered Coats So Christ the King of Kings doth spiritually Cloath the Souls of all his and by vertue of this They shall shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of his Father for evermore Mat. 13 43. Yea all his Rich and all his Poor and all his Gifted and all his Ungifted that hunger after it Here one has his Silken Suit and another his Thred-bare Habit here one has their Holland Shifts and fine Laces others want course Linnen but Time shall pass and Time shall come when all wants shall be done away and small Gifts and no Gifts scarce shall be equally happy with the greatest for all shall everlastingly shine as the Sun in the Righteousness of Christ which is the Blessedness here hunger'd after which is the White Linnen and the Wedding Garment so often spoken of in the Revelations Rev. 19. 8. And that which Paul would so feign be found in Counting his own Righteousness but dung and dross in comparison of it Phil. 3. 8 9. But Fifthly Our Lord and Saviour goes still on with his Blessings saying Blessed are the Merciful for they shall obtain Mercy Mat. 5. 7. And the merciful Man will be merciful to his Beast saith Solomon And now Noble Ladies give me leave to plead with you a little from this good Text The Mercies of God are dear and tender Things the choicest chiefest things in Heaven and Earth We have nothing to hang upon Living or Dying but the tender Mercies of God in Christ which he proclaims and shews to us Exod 26. And he was with Joseph and shewed mercy in the Pit Isa 39. 21. Prov. 11. 17. And A merciful Man saith Solomon doth good to his own Soul And if you will shew a little to some 30 or near 40 poor and fatherless Boys now in your School at Highgate you will shine as lights before men and your candle shall be on a hill and not under a bushel which Christ bids you do and in doing of it do good to your own so saith Solomon Prov. 11. 17. and in this and doing something for it you will to yours But you will say You have ways enough and need not a new design for Charity Oh! but you can never have too many ways nor do too much good in the world and if it be new 't is the more pity that so many brave Noble English Ladies as there be that profess the true Religion and are Religious also that they have not done some publick thing for the honour of it as well as old Sutton when you see so many burnt to ashes for the Gospel and that Religion which you profess Oh then do a little eminent and something that may have a little notice taken of it for the honor of their Lord Master Religion and your own also all which this would do surely the great and famous Hospitals of London are famours praise-worthy things and honourable to Religion and should nor you most Great and Noble English Ladies which all the world must needs give place unto do something for the honour of it If they did well that did build and set up them as you will not say but they did you cannot do amiss in a little countenancing this Those were done by some one particular person at first which would swallow up a great and whole Estate this would hurt no more than a little Tradesmans Bill because there are so many of you to join in this good and pious Work surely God will incline some of your hearts yea many we yet hope to it The Wiseman saith You will do good to your own Souls And we are certain it can be no hurt to your children come and take Christ's counsel and lay up treasure in Heaven where no Rust nor Moth nor Thief can ever come and to the merciful God will shew himself merciful But if you do not love your Souls care for treasure in Heaven nor the tender mercies which is the Rise Spring-head and Fountain of all we hope for or can hope for from God in this world or t'other you need not mind these sayings in this blessed Book of his Oh! but you dare not say or think so in the least for God and his mercies are your last and lasting Refuges Oh! then dear good Ladies
Gentlewomen and others as the Italian Beggars proudly beg saying frequently Do it for your own good Let us humbly beg as on our knee in the bowels of our Lord Jesus Christ do yea and do without your lame Objections That you have so many ways when it is nothing else but a will and heart that you want for you have Purse enough and 20 ways to save a little and therefore do something worthy of this good Design And you may be sure 't is a good one because it is to feed cloath and teach poor ignorant Children to know themselves fear God and live in a hard world what can be better ask your Lords I am sure the Lord Christ all the Prophets and Apostles commend it I have cloathed the hungry saith Job And Dorcas or Lydia made cloaths saith Paul Acts 9. 39. And Cornelius was a man full of good Works Alms-deeds and Charity Acts 10. 4. And Primitive Christians sold their Lands to give to necessitated Brethren Acts 4. 32 3 4. so that 't was all along and is still a good work because it suits so well with our Religion and the Church of England which saith with St. James Faith without Works is dead Jam. 2. 26. But this and such as the nature of this is amongst many others will declare it living Thirdly it is a good work because it will in some measure stop the mouths of Papists who are prone to say Where are your Works and how few are your Hospitals and how small is your Charity notwithstanding great Preaching Yet we have more than they know but do not boast as they do Our Catholick Doctrine teaches us to do good private and publick too And this is a Catholick grace because it is more or less in every Member of Christ and ought so to be for he bids us be merciful as our heavenly Father is merciful who maketh the Sun to shine and the Rain to rain upon the just and the unjust Mat. 5. 45. I shall give you one blessed Scripture more and I hope I may without any boasting truly say I have even this present February or March experienced something of it and God Almighty grant that you many or all of you might do so too for it will be your case or cases as sure as God lives to lie upon the Bed of Sickness as I have done many days together Now says the Holy Writ Blessed is the man that considereth the poor and needy Psal 41. 1. All these Children of Hampstead Hornsey or Highgate are really so the Lord preserveth and keepeth him delivereth him not into the hands of his Enemy and keepeth him alive the Lord shall comfort him when he is sick upon his Bed and shall make his Bed in his sickness that is comforts for his Soul yea and Body too if this great full plain eminent well-known Scripture be not considered none will Now 't will be of the latest may be another day and you will certainly come to be sick and it may be in your Sickness be dozed scarce know where it be day or night as I said before and it may be in your Sickness have many fears and doubts concerning your eternal weal. The Enemy will tempt you by reason of sin and guilt secretly to despair or throw away your Soul and Souls nay he will do it because you have liv'd no more to God and his Honour but have minded your own Honour Ease Pleasure and Interest in the World done no Good been a Christian in Name only having a form of Godliness but no Power 2 Tim. 3. 5. And a thousand things of this Nature he will bring it may be he will bring some particular Sins committed so and so to your Minds whilst the Room is close or two or three in it with a watch Light the Curtains drawn but the Evil One is very busie in the Bed or Conscience with you Now now if you wish as God Almighty grant you may never be delivered over into your Enemies or the Enemy of Mankinds salvations Hands Mind this Promise I do not bid you build upon it that is dangerous But build upon Christ and mind this for the Promises must be minded and the Conditions performed too in some measure And therefore be Merciful that the Lord may be Pitiful and not by Death deliver you to your Enemies Hands 'T is a dreadful terrible thing for a poor Partridge to lie trembling in the Talons of the Faulcon says the Practice of Piety but a thousand thousand times more dreadful to be delivered into the hands of Satan in a dying Hour but the Promise is God will not deliver the merciful Man into the Enemies hands Psal 41. 2. but keep him alive Nay he will certainly do it that is He will keep him alive in Christ unto Eternal Life or else alive in this World for more Work and Comfort which latter Promise is rather meant here So that a long Life seems to be promised to a merciful Man or Woman And now Ladies would you also live long on the Earth as I believe you would and enjoy all your Comforts Riches Honors and Relations be merciful to the Poor not idle vagabons sturdy Rogues and Beggars that make a Trade but poor industrious House-keepers old people and children that are past their Labour or too young poor Outed Ministers Widows and others All these you must consider And as the Apostle sayes Do good unto all men as ye have opportunity especially the houshold of Faith and in so doing you might expect the promise or promises But some may object it may be you would have us give all away no nor above the tenth part neither scarce that Yet many many good men and Ministers think we are bound to that especially Dr. Gouge And in his Book called The Best Way of Thriving gives you forty Arguments of Scripture for it And tells you an excellent story of a Bishop that lost a hundred pound for not giving five c. But Divine discretion must be used for this and the other world too We all commend good Husbandry and good Houswifery But what think you of the Lady Warwick she would say Save the money of one Rich Lac'd Gown a year and that would serve to cloath a great many poor Children especially if it should be a May-Gown Here was good Houswifery and great Charity I had rather starve a Lust said she than not feed a good Christian And she found the comfort of it in her sickness for she had scarce any God toll'd her Soul away as it were without groans But you it may be let a thousand pound Necklace it may be more lie dead in a little penny Bran Box and many thousands more in Jewels Plate Gold or Silver by you and yet yet think it a great matter to do a little any thing that is for a Noble Good and Brave Charitable Design which may flourish to the world's end for ought you know If you would do
Time drops Pearles from his golden Wings yea the Orient on 's wee for Butterflyes haz zard God Christ Heavens ioyes our Im̄ortall soules to Eternity all for nothing for nothing Call Time againe Call Time againe Cryed a great Lady when it was to late Prize it therefore as the greatest Iewell in the world THE LADIES Charity School-house Roll OF HIGHGATE OR A Subscription of many Noble well-disposed Ladies for the easie carrying of it on BEing well informed that there is a Pious Good Commendable Work for maintaining near forty Poor or Fatherless Children Born all at or near Highgate Hornsey or Hamsted We whose Names are subscribed do engage or promise That if the said Boys are decently Cloathed in Blew lined with Yellow constantly fed all alike with good and wholsom Diet taught to Read Write and Cast Accompts and so put out to Trades in order to Live another day Then we will give for one Year two or three if we well like the design and prudent management of it once a Year the sum below mentioned But if we be not fully satisfied that the said Boys are all of them true Objects of Charity or are in the least neglected to be taught the holy Scripture and Fear of God by good Discipline frequent Catechizing and orderly going to the Publick Church every Lord s Day Forenoon and After then we will not mind this our promise in the least or contribute any thing at all to it But hoping that the work may be good take Root find many friends last long be commendable in future Ages we be enclined to do as above mentioned not knowing but that a Kernel may become a Tree and a thing of small beginning prove popular and praise-worthy to the Honour of our Protestant Religion and in time find many Benefactors Also it standing so exceeding well and near this City's famous Hospitals which were not half so great as now However this little Infant being the first erected thing in our names and Dedicated to us as a Pious Work worthy of Encouragement we are not willing it should wholly die but to try the Expedient believing all good Works to be good and not to be repented of in Life Death or Eternity but the surest sign of true love to God and Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ And now 't is ten to one but some of your near Acquaintance as well as your great Relations may say Pray Madam let us trouble you with a small sum or a few Guynies to this good Work hoping it will be no sin to add a little Charity to your Ladiship And in such a case you may for the ease of your memory set it down in one of these Lines below and so you will be sure not to forget or wrong us Now a Lord or Gentleman's money will do almost as well for our School as your Ladiships only we will still ascribe all to your Honour For God's sake do not object any thing but read and see whether these Scriptures do not all seem to be for us The night comes when none can work that is at Death Joh. 9. 4. Be merciful as your heavenly Father is merciful Lay up Treasure in Heaven Matth. 6. 20. He that soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly 2 Cor. 9. 6. Make ye friends of the unrighteous Mammon that when ye fail that is when ye depart this world Christ may receive ye into his everlasting habitation Luk. 16. 9. He that observes the wind shall not sow or he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap that is he that makes excuses and objections Eccl. 11. 4. But cast your Bread upon the waters and after many days you shall find it Eccl. 11. 1. Give and it shall be given to you Luke 16 38. Charge them that are rich in this world that they do good and not trust in uncertain riches but be rich in good works 1 Tim. 6. 17. Blessed is he that considereth the Poor the Lord shall preserve him alive when he lay sick and not deliver him into his enemies hands but he shall be blessed in the Earth Psal 41. 1 2. And now he that gives in Life carries his Lanthorn before him makes his own hands and eyes Executors The Great Ladies do allow their House-keeper one bottle of Wine three of Ale half a dozen Rolls and two Dishes of Meat a day who is to see the Wilderness Orchard great Prospect Walks and Gardens all well kept and Rolled for their Honour's Families and to give them small Treats according to discretion when they please to take the Air which is undoubtedly the best round London Three or four short Reasons why you Noble Ladies should not let this little School-house die 1. It is but little yet you have done for Christ or the Honour of Religion being cumbred with many things like Martha you neglect the best 2. In this you imitate the best two Princes that ever Reigned in this Realm Queen Elizabeth and Edward the sixth who founded most of the great Hospitals As for Queen Elizabeth she hated Popery made Christ's Righteousness her Rock loved the Parliament City and Dutch a Cord hardly to be broken 3. It stands so well and is really dedicated to you who are the choicest Flowers in Nature What is beloved like you English Ladies no mortals more happy if sin do not hurt you Others have not the hand and purse Others have not the Climate Others have not such Husbands as your Right English Nobles are or were many of them heretofore No such Noble Seats as most of yours be You have every one a Canaan Milk Honey and the holy Gospel preacht and may that ever be and your lives exemplary whilst the Sun Moon and Stars endure But pray Madams why should Old Sutton's brave Hospital such and such Hospitals flourish but yours die yours who are certainly the best and greatest Ladies in the whole world May God Almighty bend your hearts to us Poor Boys who will ever pray for you and all yours An Essay or humble Guess how the Noble Ladies may be enclined to give to and Encourage their Charity-School at Highgate near London AND first my Lady such a one cryed Come we will make one Purse out of our Family and if we get so much we will buy a Close Mead or Field near the School and it shall be called by our names to the worlds end A Noble Motion My Lady such a one said She would give for one Year or two but settle nothing And my Lady such a one said She would give only to the Lecture which is every Lord's Day Winter and Summer about five or six in the Evening But my Lady such a one said She would first inform her self and then do as others did My Lady such a one said She would give at present because she liked the School-house Orders and its standing very well and was very much taken with the Wilderness and Walks And my Lady such a one said She
would give for the fancy of the Roll and Charity-stick and that she never saw the like and did wonder how any body would speak against the design of it My Lady such a one said She would give to bind some out or send one or two to be Poor Scholars in Cambridge or else to a Sea Captain to learn Navigation and get her Lord if she could to give the Quit-Rent of one or two Houses yearly saying It was no more than the Hawks-man cost him or else she would spare one Point of Venice but the thing should go forward Another Lady Warwick And for the six or seven Citizens Ladies we intend to go to we do verily believe they will give pretty well because they are the chiefest in all London and eminently good My Lady such a one cryed By her Troth she would give nothing at all for she had waies enough for her money But the next said She would give so much for five or six stone of Beef every Week and which of these is most like to Repent when they come to die and go into another World Then my Lady such a one said She would give for Bread and Beer between this and January come Twelve-month and others promise for their Cloathing But we have abundance of waies and objects for our Charity Ay said a fine young Lady it is the better for us we have abundance of Masses many Joints Toes Feet Fingers some Excuses all should do something in order to another World where we must be for ever 't is good to send a little before-hand Faith laies out for Christ and up for self but builds not upon works in the least that is Hay Sand Straw Stubble but Christ a Rock for ever and we should be glad to do any thing for his Honour who Loved Lived and Died for us and still maketh Intercession for us to the Father And now good Ladies and Gentlewomen We humbly pray that all your Charity be ready about Whitsuntide or Midsummer next at the furthest or sent in to the Worshipful Mr. Henry Cornish of Blackwell-Hall Merchant next door to the Gate whom we have one and all Prayed and Petitioned to be our only Interceder Receiver and Chief Treasurer for Life to all you much Honourable Ladies and Gentlewomen of the famous mighty well-beloved City of London or other places round about or else to William Blake of Covent-Garden Woollen Draper at the end of Maiden-Lane in Bedford-Street at the Sign of the Golden-Boy who will likewise take the same care to see it fairly Registred for the Honour of your Families or wait upon your Honours with the Clerk to give you further satisfaction in any particular when you please to command it THE Noble Marquess Galliaces's Sufferings for the Truth was famous through the World your Lord 's embracing of it makes his Marquisdom more great and may that Truth which our true Protestant Religion teacheth be for ever in and among your Noble Family may all the Branches of it flourish as Palms and Cedars be all as green Bays in the Courts of God's own House may the young Lord and his Noble Lady and that great Mass of old Gold be dedicated to the Lord that made Heaven and Earth and all their Blessings be sprinkled with a Blessing from above which may be as the Dew and Rain to the new-mown Grass to make you all fruitful in the waies of God loving him for himself and his Son for ever and all Good works because they are so And this amongst many we humbly beg your most Great and Honourable Family to abound in And that as at the Dedicating of the Tabernacle Exod. 35. 22. every one brought something so at the Rearing of this our Charity School-house one half handful of these Broad-pieces may be slung in as a Free-will Offering to the Lord who will then sanctifie all that great Lump or Heap besides and bless you all as he did the Seed of his Beloved Israel of Old and that he may so do we shall in our station as Poor Hospital ones ever pray Most Honourable and Great Lady THE Bounty of your Noble Deceased Mother the Lady Marchioness and great Hospitality of the Marquess your Father to the Poor of this Town as well as other places which has been and still is and was before we or any of us were born to our Poor Parents now Widows and Widowers many of them of which Bounty we having largly tasted obliges us and all of us humbly to acknowledge your great Goodness and the Charity of your Family the only Noble one near our School wherefore Dear Madam we most humbly beg leave of your Goodness to present one of our Charity School-house Sticks or Letter to your Ladiship and do promise one and all never to forget nor cease to pray for long Life and Eternal Happiness through our Lord Jesus Christ to your most Noble Ladiship and the Marquess also May it please you most Great and Noble Lady YOur Gentleman says That your Honour fears the Yearly Charge of the Ladies Little Charity-School will in time bring Ruine to my Family if not look't into I return a thousand humble thanks for this most kind Caution but I cannot in the least believe those good and Noble Ladies whom I ever intended believed and have Dedicated this unto will ever suffer such an inferiour mean and little person to sink under the Burden of so good and great a Work tending to their own Honour and the Honour of Religion which will be a good Work if half the World should oppose it because 't is not only commended but commanded in holy Writ to do all the good we can whilst opportunity lasts for at Death no man repents of being or doing good nor never will whilst the World stands but thousands for their not doing have complained how they have lost their time and a very great one of this Nation said Man's only Happiness lies in being good and at leizure doing good imitating the glorious Sun and Air yea the best Saints and Angels and God himself who is good to all and all his Works Oh Madam how sweet and cheering are these Beams to every Creature and that Air too through which they spread and send themselves to us below who have yet holy Angels to guard us as well as the blessed Writ and those good examples in it for to guide us in our Charity which does every where commend the poor Widow and Fatherless Children to us as the truest objects of it these being really such and you a very Great Noble and Pious Countess abounding in all manner of Mercies Honour and Plenty enough a large considerable Off-spring as young and tall Plants and Cedars to stand on high ground flourish as Bays and Bay-Trees in the True Church of God as well as in this happy Nation the most happy yet in all the known World and a Lord and Husband of a Thousand to Crown all these many Mercies
him as long as I live The sorrows of death caught hold upon me I found trouble then called I on the Name of the Lord and he heard me The Lord hath dealt bountifully with me what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits I will take the Cup of Salvation and pay my vows in the midst of his people in the Courts of the Lord 's own House in the midst of thee O Jerusalem praise ye the Lord. And if ever there be a time for us to speak and you to give it is now Whilst your heart is full of his Goodness yet yours can never extend to him to us and our School it may and others need it not we mean your great City-Hospitals but our poor little In fant new-born thing needs really needs and that makes us speak others are Rich we are poor others are full we are empty others have all things we have nothing but what the good Lord Jesus shall encline some great Ladies and a few of you the choicest Citizens of London for to give and choice men it must be that we thus go to for we intend never to beg nor mingle but with the best of Protestants and some of them too have scarce faith enough to believe the success of this great or good design Nay your Brother Cornish himself who in other things is one of a hundred through the greatness of his diffidence would have once perswaded us to lay it down whose Charity yet we doubt not of in the least it being a well approved thing by good men and Ministers one of which constantly Preaches every Lord's day an Evening Lecture for all sorts of comers where Bread and other encouragement is given for any Poor or Needy people that please to be there and hear at that same hour In short the praise and good report of this House and your Charity will live grow and be a great thing and still redound to your Honour and the City's Praise And now the prayers of all our School with the Blessings of the great God of Heaven and Earth rest on the Heads Hearts and Souls of all your near Relations and Family May it please you most Worthy Madam THE Good and Noble Ladies have given liberty to Petition as now we do some few Honourable Citizens and great Merchants Wives of eminent Quality or Degree your Husband being one we well know to be both free bountiful and a Right English Gentlemen in all things We humbly beg and intreat your Ladyship that this our Charity School-house Stick or Roll may be accepted it being for a good work much of praise-worthy And we humbly promise this We will all beg many Blessings or wish Health Peace Wealth and Eternal Happiness to you for ever and ever Yea we will beg for the two young Ladies also that they may be Saints in Heaven good and virtuous Wives on Earth and may have as they really do and will ever well deserve the best of Husbands to enjoy them such as may never grieve nor offend day nor night such as may love them and their Souls both above their great Fortunes and next our Lord Jesus Christ Study what to do for both for to be ensnared with a bad man and unkind or churlish Husband will be a thousand thousand pities grieve us to the heart When sweet Nature's Blossoms Buds and Roses meet with churlish Nabals the yielding gentle Reed is bruised by the ugly Oak and the Honey suckle tangled in a knot which can never be untied till Death But a good man though he be not a Lord though he be not a very great Merchant yet if he be but good natur'd wise cheerful and careful for the world and minds the world to come prayes daily for a Blessing let the Ladies we all say accept of such a one or let one venture first and the other for Honour after or let either chuse as they will but still let both be happy we all pray from the bottom of our hearts Yet happy they can never be unless after all they go to Heaven for Heaven is Heaven when all is done and ever will be We should Buy Sell Trade Marry Live and Dye so as that we may not endanger our Souls in the least Other losses may be gaind Health Wealth and the World but Heaven lost will never be found in another O love God and Jesus Christ now above all love his Praise love his Promise love his Spirit which knocks now and then yea often at your hearts with sweet soft and still Motions in the night saying Open open unto me Hear hear and your Souls shall live I will make a Covenant with you if you will be mine love and live to me now I will own you here and hereafter save you when you come to dye and bless you at the present with Children more or less or that which is better good things Yea no good thing will he with-hold from them that fear him saith the Psalmist And therefore fear him day and night both you yea both you Young and Lovely Ladies that he may indeed bless you in Life Death and Eternity prayes all we at Highgate SILVER DROPS OR SERIOUS THINGS HEre follows the Substance of the fine Young Lady's Answer to that Objection in the Essay Are these Times for Charity and a new Design when we have so many Waies and Objects for it Ay said she And it is the better for us too we have many Joynts and Mercies Fingers Feet and Toes all should do something for him and another world who is alwaies doing of us good and all his Works So saith the Psalmist And all his Works do praise him Psal 145. 10. Now if this little Design of theirs at Highgate be for or look like any thing of serving him why should it dye Let the vanity and things of the world sin folly and emptiness dye but let Virtue Religion and the Love of Charity live in all our bosoms breasts and lives If Angels were to be visible and present with us how much would they be to be embraced and desired for their holiness When Great and Noble Persons Lords Ladies and others embrace true Piety they seem to imitate the holy Angels though cloathed with frailty and mortality immortality is for another world and in that world nothing but Divine Love shall live Joy and Glory cease here but that which is heavenly shall never cease yet Charity shall cease though it be greater than Faith and Love too So sayes Paul 1 Cor. 13. 13. Now abides Faith Hope and Charity but the greatest of all is Charity Will you abound a little in this Work you have enough of this world yea enough to swallow and drown you to Eternity if a good God do not love and save you from the snares cares and flatteries of it For all its pleasures are bewitching things and the sweetest Musick fails tires often times But thou O Son Saint and Servant