Q,Heftions and Anfweres 1. Command humble vs, and not puffs vs vp feting it plainely relleth vs, we arc net as we were whet; no apparrell was worne, aiadyetnofhatne thereby ?Were it not monfirous. pride,, if a redeemed prlfoner, conditionally that he fhould euerwearean halter, fhould waxc proud of his halter? Mans apparrell is the badge of a firmer, yea of a condemned and curfedfirmer, andthcrefore the pride of it, and the delight in it, no doubt very monlirous before the Lord, and hateful]. If cuery Elk en'fine and gorgeous gowne in England fhrouded vnder it afaued Soule, and a fanélificcl body in the fight of God, O happy then England of all the nations vnder Heauen! But if vnderfuch gardedgarments may, and doth lodge a body and foule abhorred of the Lord, that in the day of wrath (hall finde no fauour, then is it not apparrell that Credit aird Ought to be fought after; ih the clay of Iudgernent how he may be faired, What favour with {hóuld I fay of fauour and credite with great effates in the world, of countenance and theworld; authority ?O how doe tress defire it, and feekc,it, Ale and ferne for it, their care both d'ay and night is how to attaine thefallefl to it, and yetwisat mort tickle than the (late hereof, if God gaue vs heartes to marke it ?For how foone faded the crcdite of David with his, wattering mailler Saul ? How fodainely changed the liking of that I Kings t S. King into cruel! hatred ofa faithfull Savant and Sonne in Lawe ?'Taman as it w tre to He(ler.7, day let at the Kings table, where none but the King and Qucene were, the next day quite out of fauour and hanged vp full high. What credit had Infeph with his maifler, when he committed all things to him that cuerhe had, fauing his wife, to be at his di- roBton ? Yet euen in a moment without caufe f:tlfely (laundered, all credit loft, and he clapt dote vein prifon. Many filch examples bath the word and all hiflories, and therefore truely laid he it, whofoeuer laid it, as the Counter, fois the Courtier, for that flaudeth euen now for a thoufandpounds, and by and by through a littleremoue but for a halfepenny, and fo he, to day in all glory, to morrowe in little or none. Yet not more the Courtier then mien cueryman in his place and feruice, cod ay trufied, to morrow fufpeâed, to day loner], to morrow mifliked , to day with defire entertay- ned and made of, to morrow as needleffe caffoff and contemned. Fickle therefore is the worldly fauour, and greater good there is for men to feeke after. Mariages Great matches in marriage for their children, another ofthedaily delires ofworld- ly men. This they feeke, this they couet, this day and night they beate their heads about. Yet daily examples be before their faces of Morrow and torment not to be ex- preffed, growing to parents by fuch proud and greedy attempts, befiidethe continual' griefs the fonne or daughter fo bellowed often rifeth and goeth to 'bed withal!. hercfotc I lay, to go no further, fiticethefevfuall defines of men in this world are often not attained unto their liking, though greatly laboured for, and yet ifthey be attained euen in great meafure, haue no certaine orfure comfort in them, but all the pleafureinthem, and by them quickly fadeth away, lirongly it proueth, that our chiefs care fhould not be of thefe things, but rather what our cafeìhall be in another world, when all theft things íhá11 haue their end, which is the' matter I hakte rehearfed The fecond them for. Another proofs o the fame may this be, the reuraled will of God the Lord reafonto tethifieth,he would haue all men faued, and corneto the knowledge of his truth, he prouethatour ,i'ould not the death of a finner &c. therefore vnlcffe we allo let our care to the fame chiefe care end name! how we May be faued in the day ofludgement weo pofeour.feluesnot Mould bee ly Y Y b , p, how tobefa. onelyagainflourownegood, but euen again('the Lards,will, wefitiue with our ucd. God, and we (Hall furely reape the reward of fuch as rob hïm of his creatures. Thirdiy, the horror of Hell, and condemnation proottc that our rare to be faued The third. fhould be great. For what meane thofe fcarefull names of hell, of prifon, chains, of dark nèffe; thélakeburnizg ra ith' fire and brimfloné,thedepth, píich and brim(ione, weeping ' vnafhi,gg oftèeth,thc n'orme that neuer'dyeth,the fare that neuer goeth out ,with a number fuch like,I fay' what mane hcy,orwly hath the Spirit of God let them dówn ?but to f?rike a terror into vs of damnation,& confeçjuently thcrnpon a trite care to be fatted? The fourth ; oitrthly,y vnfpeakable & endleffe coinfort that there 8íá1l be had,witb,ally children of eid,l?atriarches, prophets ,Apoflfes,mártyrs,yeaw.ithy Lordhimfclf&althisan- gels,w itláChrifl our fauiour & lamb flain for vs who fhal.wipe al tears from our ties, Both Gen I9.
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