through the dirt and cares of the world for that brings death yea double death often I had rather fast then least where there is nothing but chit-chat sin and my Lady Complement but the masking is a wicked thing where the woman comes in mans habit like the Devill to a Witch the Imps hire is the soul The Lady gives her Hector mony he hath his pleasure the other hath the soul all loose that for a moments lust which is more worth than a thousand worlds Matt. 16. 26. If a man be worth five hundred pound a year and spend it in racing he shall go on foot and young Mr. Fool that doth the like in Coaching this and that and t'other Mr. Sucker who hath nothing but a bold face and a trusted suit with a lime-twig in his lips let hangers on be shâ—ken off and the old customes of the world it is no hurt to keep Christmas so you do not eat too much sin forget Christ play and do no good though it be the devils term and this May-day may be kept also if it be for the air and pleasures of the fields which are fruitful green and lovely but most a Hide-Park die upwards in the face is beauty fine clothes an green leaves are on the back knots and blâ—ssomes on the hâ—ad jâ—wels in the ear thousands in the pâ—cket and yet they die upwâ—rds the soul is dead the heart is dead aâ—d the body is little better Eph. 2. 1. dead in sins and trespasses I saw a Beggar put into an open Coffin with an abundance of Bay leaves Rosemary sweet Bryar and Flowers who was a drunken rogue and his wife worse yet she cried at the putting of him in O Christ my dear heart The Surgeon wraps up some in a Sear-cloth for which many mourn but not one of a thousand mindes where the soul is when the body is in a green bag the Lord of Rack-tenant had sixteen great lights silver Candlesticks a velvet foot-cloath three mourning women and a many taffity scutchins about his Lady but their sins were these they were devillish hard miserable to their servants and worse to their tenants proud and discontented at the tax but their great sin was unbelief and yet they heard much I had rather be guilty of many sins than some one sin espeically of that of unbelief which damnes thousands John 3. 35. some will not believe a wise man others a friend nor the wife the husband if she be a little jealous but one of five hundred I think do not believe there is a Christ or at leastwise live to Christ amongst your Gallants which come to nought 1 Cor. 2. 6. And if a man doth not really beleive in Christ and in some measure live to Christ he can never be saved by Christ John 3. 3. But that man that is damned takes little pleasure when the devils tells him there was such a Coach and such a Coach so many six Horses and so many mourners and but two or three rejoycers among them all little legacies were straight forgot to morrow is a new day and the pleasures of this is gone already The Lady Be weary is going Mrs. Moredelight is gone to spring Garden Mrs. Vnsatisfied is coming back again but the Lady Rack-tenant comes no more nor any from the dead If one could come out of hell that heretofore used Hide Park but that cannot be Luke 16. 26. would they hear what he would say I believe no If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets and they that speak by the same spirit they will not hear him verse 29. besides such an one will scarce come there nor to Mrs. Wantons Chamber neither where there is nothing but four or five naked Picttures a Song book a Play book a Lute a History two or three great Looking-glasses a jackalattostick and a Mystery in a little pot namely a face to put on or off a fair for a foul a smooth for a wrinckled Madam your name is Consideration and what do you think of these things are these books for Christians that hope to be saved by poor crucified Christ and the bulk of them you see in day scarce have oâ— read any other truly they are the glory of the Nation in one or or two respect to wit in beauty bâ—avery and riches buâ— the shame of Christianity in pride ignorance and wantonness one inviable Angel would put them down all in beauty and glory Christ hath millions to attend him Heb. 1. 6. this Christ they despise yea loath in his wayes and members and yet pretend to own and at somtimes will say and swear they hope to be saved by him that they may be if they take a new course but if they miss of it they shall certainly burn as many thousand years in hell as there be speres of grass in Hide-Park so saith Christ Mat. 25. 41. 'T is pity Beauty and such fine Virgins as some there be should ever come to be imbraced by ugly devils and that they should be both tormented together in one and the same place as they must Vers. 42. here one room is for the Lady and another for the Lord scarce is there one for such and such a poor Christian servant at least in their families yea if he be a strict one he is hated and loathed exceedingly but God shall make a separation an eternal separation for one shall eternally be saved and the other eternally damned Mal. 4. 1. 2 Pray Madam read this little Chapter and the former and then see there what will become of most of you not for being rich not for being beautifull not for being brave not for being honorable but for being fools graceless and Christless living in pleasure all your dayes minding nothing but that and all that do so are dead while they live 1 Tim. 1. 5 0. The woman that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives in the mean time every dead mans eyes is not closed nor every dead body stretched out they that live and delight in sin have their eyes to close and their dead bodies to stretch out friends will do that one day and God another day will call call them to an account what they did what they saw and what they said in Hide-Park and why they went so often there what every afternoon and never to the Closer crying Lord What am I What do I Why came I Whither goe I Lord I am but a poor little gnat worm or a vain shadow Psal. 39. 6. and we all do fly about like so many butter flies there is more glory and variety of beauty in the weeds of one Corn field yea in a little Dasie than in one of us Luk. 12. 27. But why came I Lord why came I into this world was it to play sport court and complement my soul away or was it to mind love fear serve own and honour thee Dost thou give me being beauty riches outward honour glory esteem among
men to be a She-witch snare and divell to the souls of men drawing them off from thee or should I be as an Angel owning and honouring thee as the Son of all joy life and fountain of all glory the first last only being of all beings that nihilates the creatures disposeth of them how where and when thou pleaseth for light life and glory or wrath hel darkness that in a moment this moment Lord thou mayst dost dispose of some poor creature in some place or other to his unchangeable condition yea and this moment thou mayst say Lords and Ladies come to judgement you must be no longer ranting sporting coaching up and downe but come away to judgement however Lord if not now I must ere long the end of al things is at hand 1 Pet. 47. the Sun is setting the glory going and all the company from the Park and this May-day will come no more nor we nor they from the grave which are once there let this be my last to the love to the life of sin and delights of this world and let me take my leave farewel farewel Ladies Lords farewel pleasures of the day I shal never see you more fields no more nor hedges Sun Moon nor Stars Saints nor Sinners Churches nor Stages Houses of Prayer or Houses of Sin yea nothing more that I now see shall I ever see again in the way in the manner in the state and condition that I now see I shall never see more O Christ where am I Oh Christ what do I here help me to be up and looking help me to be up and doing something for eternity yea for my soul and the glory of thy name before I go hence and be seen no more Oh Christ if it must be now or never that I must believe that I must repent and live unto thee let me do it and seeing that the night comes when no man can work Joh. 9 4. let me go home and set about the work in good earnest and in thy strength Oh Christ or else it will come to nothing I cannot believe I cannot repent lead a strict life and be crucified in any measure to these present thingâ— pleasures and delights and yet thy word pronounceth woe upon woe against me and such as I am Woe to them that live at case in Sion that chaunt to the musick Amos 6 1 4 5. that stretch themselvs upon beds of ivorie and feed upon the fat of lambs go to you rich men weep and howle for your misery James 5. 1 2. and woe unto you saith Christ Luk. 6. 24. woe unto you that be full for ye shall be hungry and woe unto you that laugh and rejoyce for ye shall weep and howl vers. 25. and woe to you when all men shall speak wel of you smooth flatter you which too many do when they should pluck you by the hair as brands out of hell But Madam all these woes and judgements must and will come upon this generation of Creatures whose skins are as full of the sins of Sodom ignorance pride luxury and wantonness as a Taber is with wind and for those damning pleasures which now they so eagerly pursue they will be gone like a flash of lightning yea they are gone already upon the matter the sable clouds curtains of the night wraps up the glories of the day yea it hath done so sin and drakness doth the soul of man in greater the sweetest musick leaves but sadnes in the mind of man the sweetest injoyments of the world do the like yea the more delights pleasure and injoyments here the more hell in hell to all eternity who would sell his soul for pleasure who would sell his soul for profit yea if it were to gain the whole world what would it profit saith Christ Luk. 16. 26. O ye Nobles of England Lords and Ladies and others do ye indeed think upon this teâ—t or do ye think there is a God a soul in you a heaven or hell for that to go into and dwell for evermore these things that are could never be if there were not a God and if there be as certainly there is he will call you of all the whole Creation to a strict account you that drink the sweet and seed upon the choice of all the Creatures among the Fish and Fowl you that drink down golden bolls of Nectar at your costly banquets you that cloath your selves in Silk and Sattin and golden cloath of Tussue and often ride on poor mens backs as well as in your golden Coaches you that say like the Harlot we will take our fill of love our fill of pleasure crying Away away to the Woods and to the Groves to the Fields to the Parks and places where the Nobles are and let us hear the Nightingale I and the death watch too I pray Oh Madam when all is done the bell must toll and you must dance to deaths pipe who are now singing like to so many she Nightingales your new inchanting tunes and Sâ—rlan songs and have thousands to bow and cryinge to you though you be as the leprous houses to be pulled down Levit. 14. 40 But remember the golden boll was in Belshazzer's hand his Nobles round about him then the judgement came Mene mene Tokel Daniel 5. 5. this night shall thy soul be taken from thee saies Christ Luke 12. 20. and some have been taken from the Park to the bed from thence to the judgement before a few dayes have been expired O ye sinning and sinfull fading floures of England consider what is said and dedicated to you in a serious way one sheet shall winde you up let another or two convince you had I wrote more your leisure not your pleasure would have perused them but this I hope it will yea take it and peruse it well and although at first I might a little seem to be light yet my aim was and my closure shall be very serious as from the Lord who I think inclined me to it And let me tell you that if you or some of you shall read this and then go to hell after for fleighting this and former better counsels it will little advantage to weep and say Oh that I were out of these internall and externall flames Oh that I had hearkened when time was to Christ and that the sweet and silver voyce of the Turtle and the Gospel might again once more yet be heard the groans and sighs of dying Lords and Ladies are many times very sad and dolorous but the groans sighs and tears of a damned creature can never be immagined I have heard of a Gentelewoman in Northampton-shire that was burnt for poysoning her husband her skreeks by some could never be forgotten they were so loud so shril and to here the shrils skreeks and cries of one damned soul is a hell in hell beyond all imagination and were there no other hell than this for one
The Yellow Book OR A SERIOUS LETTER SENT BY A Private Christian TO THE Lady CONSIDERATION The first day of May 1659. Which she is desired to communicate in Hide-Park to the Gallants of the Times a little after Sun-set ALSO A brief Account of the Names of some vain persons that intend to be there whose company the new Ladies are desired to forbear LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Tho. Butler in Lincolns-Inn-fields neer the Three Tun-Tavern by the Market place and by The Brewster at the three Bibles at the West-end of Pauls 1659. A serious Letter sent by a private Christian to the Lady Consideration the first day of MAY 1658. LADY I Am informed fine Mrs. Dust Madam Spot and my Lady Paint are to meet at Hide-Park this afternoon much of pride will be there If you please to take an Hackney I shall wait upon your Honour in a private way But pray let us not be seen among the foolish ones that ride round round wheeling of their Coaches about and about laying of the naked breast nâ—ck and shoulders over the boot with Lemon and a Fan shaking it at young Mrs. Poppet crying Madam Your most humble Servant your very humble servant sweet Madam while some are doing worse Young Sir William Spruce Monsieur Flash the Lord Gallant will be all on horseback Mr. Belt and Mr. Feather Mr. New Exchange Mr. Old will be there Sir Thomas Cavy is poor and ashamed to come some of the name will be there and some Commanders of the Army but the Ladies hate then generally Mrs. Come-up Mrs. Totherday and Ioan hold my Staff they cannot abide neither nor indeed any of the new Gently which I hope God wil keep from their vanities Pride Covetousness and Hypocrisie Mrs. Contempt and Mrs. Envy will be there Mrs Luxury Mrs. Wanton Mrs. Faith and troth Mrs. Hop about Mrs. Never pray and Mrs Never go Mr. Church and Mr. Careless wil be all in a Coath together Sin Guilt and a little Content wil be with them Time and Vanity swiftly driving them away as upon the wings of the mighty wind but Death Hell and Eternity follow after Rev. 6. 8. After the black Horse and the pale Horse death and hell follows a cursing of the Ministers who are apt to dine with them speak to them and yet wink at them Martins Pauls Covent Garden this is a judgement of God and the greater because so little minded Madam I had rather beg my bread from door to door then be in the case of some of these Ladies which are as beautifull as Angels but more miserable and poysonous than Toads Let me live with one of them under a stone and die with a dog in a ditch â—ather then in a golden bed in one of their conditions And your vain Roysters are as bid young Gallants that are sporting and courting these dancing shadows at the brinks of hell and are ever studying how to please their lusts and their lmps one way or another which they are ever waiting on they think there is no heaven but if there be and a hell too What will become of them I had rather fear the worst the best will help it self But if they go to that farewell Hide-Park May day and pleasures too The Fishes never get up that once fall down into the dead Sea called Mare mortuum the River Nilus carrieth them thither but fetcheth not them back Pleasures carry thousands but sorrow fetcheth none from the dead Sea and the deadly Lake where streames of brimstone ever run over and over their heads hearts and souls that fall into that Tophet is prepared of old yea for the King that is the greatest and the breath of the Lord like a Stream of brimstone kindles it Isa. 30. 33. I know many will not mind this and Mrs. Busie is putting on her gown but I would she would put on Christ and his righteousnesse Rev. 6. 18. Buy of me glod sayes he that than may the rich and white rayment that thou may the cloathed that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear This rayment I had rather have than a skin to cover my bones naked soules are more common and miserable than naked bodies a thousand times but not half so much pitied by the world some had rather be dead than not in the fashion and cloathes to put on on such a day as this others rather buried alive than want Christ and the righteouness of Christ Run to my Taylor bring them done or undone cryes Mrs. Would be gone fetch my green petticote and my white sattin mantle my Lady Impatience stayes for me yea and some body else too and will have you when you take your short journey if you have not Christ to go a long with you to your long home and you may chance quickly to be there as well as at the Park what is your life but a vapour or a shadow sayes Iames ch. 4. v. 24. Some Ladyes get the Pox and die with a fear others get a Cold and die with a Feaver few live long that do not die soon eternall life is the fruit of a short living unto Christ and eternall death is the wages of an old sinner the wages of sin is death Rom. 6. 23. Yea of all sinners that have not Christ and the righteouness of Christ for cursed is every one that continueth nor to doe all that is written in the Law Gal. 3. 12. Madam some are of the opinion that no unsanctified Ladies shall go to heaven nor no ungodly Lords go to hell providing they beleeve and repent but if they do not so and be throughly washed in Iudah's Fountain Zic 13. 1. the fountain which God hath set open for sin and uncleanness both Lords and Ladies too shall be eternally damned and thrown into the midst of flames hell and divels Lords and Ladies have more reason to be damned than poore people a thousand times for where much is given much will be required Matt. 25. 30. they sin more and draw more to sin and yet may best serve God besides they are many of them the very factors and purveyors of hell a great road leads to a great Town and a great man to a great devill some goes to the bridge foot to drinke wine and others to the devills mouth in following them they ride on poor mens backs and devils ride on theirs the Prince of the Air that now rules in them Ephes. 2. 2. yea both are carried somtime in close Sedan but to day they are more open doe not you see the Lord of Kill Chicken and the Lady Be graceless one eats both full of sin and good creatures it is pity mountain Larks should feed such Swine Kites are too good for them that doe nothing but eat drink and put it out some study Musick Doctors kill many but a good book never hurts O Timothy give thy self to reading saith Paul but many go to hell a pick-pack more
a thousand times in many things your condemnation will be greater Mat 11. 21. And woe unto you as Christ sayes for if cursed be al the familes of the earth which call not upon him Jer. 10. 25. what will then become of you who never call nor think upon him unless it be to blaspheme and dishonour him Truly if Christ be the Son of God as certainly he is he can never own you who are so unlike to him for the present Be ye holy for I am holy saith the Lord and without holinesse no man shall ever see the face of God Heb. 12. 14. Oh minde that and this Text I and my farther are one saith Christ and must not all his members be in some measure like him this likeness is not wrought in an hour but by the continuall working of the holy Spirit which is called the Sunctifier of them that beleive and if you beleive in Christ or hope to be saved by Christ do you think it shall be without any work of sanctification or change in your hearts truly if you think so you think amiss and are the most deceived of any in world 't is true works shall save none nor in any measure contribute to the saving of any the Lord Jesus Christ is and will be all 〈◊〉 that particular yea he is all in all in point of Justification Sanctification and Glorification and if he do not thoroughly justifie you and in some measure sanctifie you he will 〈…〉 you and yet if he save you it shall not he for work 〈…〉 works for not unto him that worketh is the promise 〈…〉 him that believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly Psal. 32 2. Rom 4 5. two golden texts for mark the expression I am sure you are ungodly an I am sure you may be easily saved yea you 〈◊〉 great ones that never minded salvation all your dayes may be saved if you will look unto him who is God alone Isaiah 35. 21. but will you will you look to him 't is but looking and be saved from the wrath to come 1 Thess. 1. 10. for all other salvations though never so great are nothing but will you be saved from being shut out of the new Ierusalem with dogs sorcerers whoremongers and liars Revel. 22. 15. And from being cast out with the children of this kingdome Luke 13 27. whose pleasures joyes and glories are in the things of this life never minding that kingdome where Abraham Isaac and Iacob are I say will you be saved from being so cast out into utter darkness where shall be wailing weeping and gnashing of teeth for evermore Verse 29 Oh would you escape all this and stand in the evil day when they shall sting their gold and their silver to the moles and to the bats Isaiah 2. 20. the day wherein sinners shall move out of their holes like Worms Mich. 7. 17. and lick the dust like Serpents the day wherein many shall run with Kings and Captains and mighty men to the rocks and to the hills and mountains crying Fall onus and hide us from the presence of the Lamb Revelation 6. 15 16. for the day of his fierce wrath is come I say if you would escape all these things which the Lord Jesus grant you may consider a little how vain those pleasures are that you pursue how great that salvation is that you neglect Heb. 2 3. How free how full how easie to be had it stands at your dores it waits upon you it cries after you Hear hear and your souls shall live Isa. 55. 99. I will make an everlasting Covenant with you saith the Lord even the sure merices of David your sins and your iniquiâ—es I will remember no more and though they have been as red as scarlet I will make them as white as wool your pride your glory and your boasting is a thing of nought yea your stout words against me wherein you say It is in vain to serve me Mal. 3. 13. And what profit will it be so to do calling proud ones and they that contemn me happy when as the day cometh that shall burn as an even and all they that do wickedly and all the ungodly of the earth shall be burnt up saith the Lord of Hosts and it shall leave them neither root nor branch for the wicked shall be as stubble and the day that comes shall burn them up Malac. 4. 1. and all the wicked shall go down to hell for ever Psal. 9. 17. and all that forget God Oh you that do so hear and hearken unto the voyce of God yea hear his voyce to day to morrow is another day and you know not whose it may be to day if you will harden not your hearts as in the day of provocation this day is salvation tendered to you if you will accept it do not say to morrow do not say we will have none of this salvation which Christ and all the Prophets of Christ yet tender unto you and abuse not that rich and free-grace which brings and tenders salvation to all men but to you especially nor intreat him to be gone out of your course and companies as once those unkind and churlish Gadarens did Mark 5. 16. preferring their swine before Christ the Lord of life and glory who only hath immortallity dwelling in himself and dwelleth in that light which is unaccessible the onely Prince and Potentate who shall be revealed in due time 2 Tim 6. 14 15. In the mean time charge them that be rich to be rich in good works and prefer not every lust rattle toy and baby before the Lord of life and glory who hath the keys of death and hell in his hand Revel. 1. 18. an absolute power over you Saints Angels Men and Devils to dispose of you and them all as he pleaseth either for light life and glory or wrath hell and darkness Phil. 2. 10. Why should this Lord of Lords and Ladies too Revel. 16. 19. be set at nought who hath a name written on his thigh the King of Kings Lord of Lords though his Kingdome be not of this world yet his Kingdom shall break in pieces all the Kingdomes of this world Dan. 2. 44. 7 9. And they that will not kiss this enlightening Son shall be broken with an iron rod Psalm 2 9. Be wise O ye Lords and Ladies of England and kiss with a kiss of obedience subjection and affection this Son and Son of Sons Angells are the Son of this Son which now we do behold and Christ who is fairer than the Children of men is the Son of Saints and Angels too shall he be yours O ye Stars of England glory of our Nation in a common sense shall he be your Sun and shall he rise this night with healing in his wings on some of your soules who are as black as the nether Hell notwithstanding all your outward lustre Oh let him arise there now the Sun and glory of the world is
cannot touch this righteousnesse no no Christ keeps that for him as in a Cabinet of gold untill the day of resurrection and then his dead body though consumed to dust and that again to nothing yet shall that nothing be raised and arayed too like a Princess in the morning of her esponsal and all by vertue of that power which saâ—es to the North and to the South give up and bring back my sons and daughters from fat Isa. 43. 6. And oh that this almighty power might bring back you or some of you the captive daughters of Sion oh that you might returne like the rivers in the South from all your lying vanities to the living God and from all your follies to the wisdom of God which is better then fine gold or silver yea then Rubies Prov. 8. 10 11. Riches and honour yea durable riches and honour are with me saith the Lord my fruit is better then gold yea then fine gold and my revenue then silver verse 19. therefore hearken O ye Children of men unto me for blessed are they that keep my waies but cursed are those that go a whoring after other Gods sorrow shall be multiplyed yea thay shall lie downe in sorrow Isa. 50 11. this sorrow is the daughter of sin but the mother the daughter shall sit downe and lay downe upon the heads hearts and soules of all that will not hearken unto me saith Wisdom Wherfore O ye foolish ones turn ye turn ye at my reproof Prov. 1. 22. hear ye and your souls shall live and if you wil hear hear ye young and lovely Lords and Ladies and Gallants of the times and for Christs sake remember ye your Creator in the dayes of your youth before the evill day commeth wherein the Lord shall say I have no pleasure in you before the Sun and blossome of your virginitie and flower of your age be darkened yea before Christ and the things of Christ be hid from your eyes before the Moone the Stars and the Clouds returne after the rain Eccles. 12. all the lesser meanes and helps of your salvation be blown away like a cloud or a rain that is carried away by the clouds ye before the day when the keepers of the house the spirit and noble courage of your souls shall tremble at the approach of death when he comes climbing in at your windows and up to your beds wheâ—e you lie panting like the poor Partridg in the tearing tallents of the Falcon and what is a bed of state in such a condition though surrounded with a thousand Lords and Ladies who are but vain comforters or as flesh flyes when the strong men shall bow themselves the leggs arms and sinewes of strength all shrinked up yea the whole man turned to the wall like Hezekiah and weep like a child the grinders cease as not able to doe there office and they that look out of the windows be darkened the light and sight of thine eyes dim and creamy the throat rattle and the breath earthly when the doors shall be shut in the streets all the intellects of the soule that take in and shut out vissible appearance be locked up then the sound of the grinding shall be low no noyse or motions hardly heard when you shall rise up at the voise of the bird the secret chirpings of conscience the private bird that tells all old and almost forgotten things and ungodly acts when the daughters of musick are brought low all your former vain and sinful vanities and delights are husht still blowne over and gone through the fear of that which is coming on namely death hell and he that hath the power over death yea the keys of death and hell too in his hand Revel. 2. 18. but the Almond tree shall flourish then that is the righteous man yea mark for the end of that man is peace Psal. 37. 37. but woe to the transgressour the Grashopper shall be a burden to the wicked and all his desires shall saile because he goeth to his long home whether he will or no yet he goes and the Mourners about the streets the silver cords be loosned the golden bow and pitcher broken at the fountain the veines and strings of life all broken through the invisible shouting of the immortall soul into another world whereby the pitcher of mans body becomes broken as at the fountain head in the return of the spirit to that God that gaive it the dust returns to the dust for a while and the spirit to God for a final sentence O vanity of vanities how is all but froath and vanity besides Christ and the knowledge of Christ this knowledg â— recommend to you and every one of you in Hide-Park after your unwearied pursuit of lying vanities and if you refuse it your blood and the blood of your souls will be upon your own heads Acts. 20. 26. I am more free from that then thousands of your Chaplains and others too that deal not so faithfully with you as they ought God Almighty bless and turne you from your sins though Israel be not gathered yet my labour is and shall be with my God Isaiah 49. 5. but my hearts desire and prayer is and shall be that Israel may be saved in the day of the Lord Iesus Rom. 10. 1. and that you may the eyes of al mercy look upon you to convince you one by one and oh that you dare or that he would take you alone a little this night to mind and meditate what you have done this day and all your dayes for him or rather against him but you dare not walk alone or be in the dark one hour nor will the Devil let you think on Christ heaven hell death or Iudgment And now O Christ how few lives to thee O Christ how few mind thee O Christ how many dissâ—mble with thee and when shall the Nobles lick the dust of thy feet whilest Kings and Queens attend on thee and count it honour enough to own and honour thee in the most contemtible way and manner when shall they bring their gold and silver and offer unto thee who art all in all in life death and eternity Coll. 3. 11. But poverty parts good company thou at present appears not in thy glory 1 Iohn 3. 2. but art as it were upon the wain while the World and Nobles of the world are in their full sun splendor but appear O Christ and leâ— the world see thee that art invisible and yet thou rulest the stars and bounds the tumbling seas while thou stands knocking at the sinners heart Rev. 3. 20. courting as it were this or that or t' other gnat-worm nothing for a little admittance O Christ fling them down to hell yea fling them down quick that storm and contemn thee because they are fine and tricked up in the offiles of thy creature and if these golden Sparks and Ladies will not own thee make them like a wheel and let them perish as the stubble Psal 84. 13. yet if any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha so sayes Paul 1 Cor. 10. 22. but I say love him Lords love him Ladies he and he onely is altogether lovely in his name in his nature in his person in his promise to look to to hope in to follow after and to lean upon he is altogether lovely the last present the future hope of sinners But do what you will I have chosen him and he hath washed me in his own blood Rev. 1. 5. Glory Honour and Salvation be ascribed to him world without end W. B. For Christs sake do not tear nor fling this about but tell the Lords and Ladies of it and ask for the green Book or the Ladies Tryall