TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, HIS VERY SIN'GVLAR GOOD LORD, H E N R I E, Earle of Pembroke , Lord Harbert of Cardiffe, Marmion, and S. qlintine, Lord Prefidentof Wales, and of the Marches thereof, andof the moll Honorable Order of theGarter, Knight, and to the Right Honorable and vertuous Ladle the Counteffe his Wife , G. B. wifheth all Mercie and Comfort in CHRIST IESVS,both here now, and for euer. onjider the old generations of men ye chi ldren,f.èid that wife Tonne of Sirach(Right Honorable,and my veriefngulargood Ecctejiai.ì. t r. Lord) in his time, and marke them well. was there suer anie confounded, that put his craft in the Lord? Or who bath con- tinued in his feare, and was forf aken ? Or whom did he euer de[píf , that called upon him ? Agreeably truly to all Scrip-' tares, and Experiences ester, if they werefearched. For [rich a thing is it to eleaue vnto the Lordwith a faithfull heart, that the Bride may forget to trim her felfe the day The is married,and the Mother her Infant The bare ofher 6odie, and efleemeth fall Beare, before the Lord of Heauen can forget fuch. The Lord pptne 37 knoweth the Baies of the upright men, and their inheritance fhall be perpetual!. They fhall not be confounded in perillous time, andin the daies of famine they (ball haue enough: Though he fall,he (ballnot be ca/1 off, for the Lord putt eth under his hand. The Lord fball exalt them ; as them /ilues fball fee, and their end (faith the Prophet) pail be peace. Thòu fánds of comforts hat; the Word trim 4,6.5. moe, and yet thefe are bothmanie and great ones, if wee marke them. Gaine is Chap. 4.8. not godlineffe (faith the dtpof ie) but Gadltneffe is great gaine, and bath the promife both of this life and that to come. Wherefore (Right Honorable) more ioy in this, than in all the Earth, if it might be your atone. For the Earth mufle perifh, and all the gliftering glorie of it pale away as a tale that is told, burnt, and con Anted, and melted with heat, but the feare of the Lord f ball fet her fer- mints before the Higheft,for euer and euer. Now did the vlpofilefay to King clgrippa before fo manie, O King Agrippa I know thou beleeuefl ? Surely, I mayfay it before as manie, I know (Right Honorable) your L. beleemeth both the Prophets and Apoflles, and whatfoeuer thé child of God is bound to be- leeue vnto faluation. I fay i know it, snd yet know I it not alone, bat o- thers with me, as well as ',attending your L. both its like and other places. A z And
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