Chap.z. Proprietary and Lord of all. Of the Elephant it is reported, that coming to feed, the firft fprig he breaks, he turns it toward Hea- ven. Of the Stork `Pliny cells us, that theoffers the firft- fruits of tib.a.a caps;. her young ones to God, by calling one of them out ache neft. Hixc Pieraru God is content we have the benefit of his creatures, fo he may atrtx a tati. have the glory of them : this is all the loan he looketh for : and for nu d`cuu, Ha this as he indents withus, Pfal. 5 0. 15. to the Saints reftipulate, b.eij "e` Gen. 28. 22. But he cannot abide that we pay this rent toa wrong Landlord, whether to our (elves, as D eut.8. i 7. or to our fellow- 4,oafij Treat creatures, as they to their fweet hearts, Hof.a.5. Gold, frankincenfe and myrrhe] Durum, thus, zsyrrham, regique,hominique,Deogue. A lic:le of each, as Gen. 43, H. Lycuriuc made a law that no man fhould be over-coftly or boun- ;>z¡.a ,,,7, 77, ti"ull, in his off'ring of facrifize, left at length he fhould grow. cwvts weary of the charge, and give God over. Ought we not ( faith ;(47.>`H'7rwT:v. one) often in foul to goe with the wife men to Bethlehem, being "ur. directed by the Barre ofgrace, and there fall down and worfhip, the little wing : there offer the gold ofcharity, the frankincenfe the myrrhe of px itency : an i then return, not by cru- cunoas Di ¡e ell Herod, or troubled yerufal-m, but another way, a better way, vivere. unto our longand happy home ? Verie I s. Andbeing warned of Gld in a d ¡eam, &c.] Thus were they pulled, by a iweec providence, out of the Lions mouth, as `Paul was : as Athan :fine and B :fall orcen : as Lutheralto, and n Tm.4.J7 Q Elizzbethof famouim.:mory :for w iofe ex^cu:io :e a warrant gatgndt once came down under foal, Gard ter being the chief engineer. Elitsberh. And when, chorow a fea of farrows, the had fwom to the crown, Cadent treafbns there wereevery year fo many,thac the laid in Parliament, E/i za etb, /he rather marvelledthatjhe was, then msfed that fhe flaauld not YraAce, be. But no man is matterof hisown life, much lcfXe of ano:hers, as our Saviour told`Pilate : See L4.24.2 2. My times are in thy bands, faithDavid, D, liver mefrom the hands ofmineenemies, Pfal.3 andfrom them that perfecute me. So QElitabeth at woodfhoc,f, after a great deliverance, Lord,lookupon the wounds ofthyhands, laid the, anddfpifenot the Work of thyhands. Thou ha writ- ten tayic Lr me down in thy 600kofprefervatian with thine own hand._ Oh E E.i aie read thine outs hand-writing,andPave me, &c. And God heard her, andhid the Giver threed of her precious life, in. the endles maze ofhis bottomles mercies. M. Fox makes mention of one Lzrewoutk, ,eli u Williamfon, Chaplain toLady Anne of Clecve, a acco rding to S r M A T r H t: V V. 2j
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