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<DIV1 TYPE="approbation">
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<P><HI>I</HI> Have read over this Booke of fourty nine
Chapters, entituled, <HI>The Merchant di|&s;tre&s;&s;ed
his Ob&s;ervations:</HI> and finde the
matter hone&s;t peacefull Truth, the Practice
&s;uch as may &s;erve for premonition and ex|ample
fit to be publique in Print.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Io: Langley.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>THE
DISTRESSED
MERCHANT.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI>
The Pri&s;oners comfort in di&s;tre&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>When he was a pri&s;oner in <HI>London,</HI> in <HI>Chap.</HI> 49.
the Reader may take notice of,</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>I.</HI> His Ob&s;ervations of many pa&s;&s;ages in pri&s;on, during his being
there.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>II.</HI> The &s;everall humours and carriages of his fellow Pri&s;oners.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>III.</HI> His advice to them, and to &s;ome of his and their kin, and unkind
friends.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>IV.</HI> Gods &s;ingular care and providence over all di&s;tre&s;&s;ed pri&s;oners,
that put their tru&s;t in him in all afflictions.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<BIBL>PSAL. 94. 19.</BIBL>
<Q>In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight
my &s;oule.</Q>
<P>Written by <HI>William Bagwell</HI> Merchant.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI>
Printed for <HI>Richard Wodenothe,</HI> at the Star
under <HI>Peters</HI> Church in <HI>Cornhill.</HI> 1645.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the VVor&s;hipfull William Barkeley, Alderman
of London, and one of the Commi&s;&s;ioners for the
receipt of Cu&s;tomes.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Worthy Sir:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Have in my troubles (among other
things) ob&s;erved that when the
Lord<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 12. 5.</NOTE> deprives a man of the
&s;uperfluous things of this life,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 2.</NOTE> and brings him into di&s;tre&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 7.</NOTE> his friends
and acquaintance are then wanting unto him,
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 38. 11.</NOTE> they &s;tand aloofe,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 10. 1.</NOTE> and leave him to him|&s;elfe,
being (in their opinions) in &s;o mi&s;erable
a &s;tate and condition;<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Deut. 8. 5.</NOTE> this is the u&s;uall man|ner
of Gods dealing with tho&s;e whom he loves,
for by this means,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 16.</NOTE> though the outward man
peri&s;h, yet the inward man is renewed day by
day. But when the Lord is graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Jonah. 4. 6.</NOTE> deliver the party afflicted from his griefe,<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 90. 15.</NOTE>
he is exceeding glad, and then his<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Job 42. 11.</NOTE> friends
and acquaintance rejoyce with him, and ex|pre&s;&s;e
their love and affections towards him in
a bountifull manner:<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 116. 5, 6.</NOTE> this have I (through
Gods goodne&s;&s;e) knowne by experience, e&s;pe|cially
the&s;e latter times:<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 5. 12.</NOTE> for many are the
courte&s;ies which I have received from divers
<PB REF="3">
friends,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 16. 18</NOTE> the which I &s;hall ever acknowledge.
But the truth is, the continuance of<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 112. 5.</NOTE> your
great favours, is &s;uch a happine&s;&s;e to me, as I
mu&s;t needs confe&s;&s;e you are to me more like a
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Job 29. 16.</NOTE> father then a friend or ma&s;ter. And there|fore
an &s;o much the more obliged unto you.
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 24.</NOTE> In te&s;timony thereof, and of the true love
and &s;ervice I owe you, I humbly dedicate to
you the&s;e fir&s;t fruits of my poore endeavours,
gathered in my afore&s;aid troubles, (when I
was<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Jer. 32. 2.</NOTE> &s;hut up in a mi&s;erable place from the
delights of the world) out of<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Cant. 5. 1.</NOTE> the &s;pirituall
garden of Gods Word; wherefore my hope
is you will<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 103.</NOTE> reli&s;h them &s;o much the better,
and vouch&s;afe them your kinde acceptance,
though publi&s;hed by &s;o weake an In&s;trument
as my &s;elfe, who&s;e further endeavours (not|with&s;tanding)
&s;hall be to doe &s;omewhat more
&s;ome other way, that may conduce to the pub|lique
welfare, as God (the<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 5. 17.</NOTE> liberal giver of al
good gifts) &s;hall enable me: To whom I com|mit
both you and all yours, and remaine,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Wor&s;hips mo&s;t humble &s;ervant, William Bagwell.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>May 18. 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle to the courteous Reader.</HEAD>
<P>IT is not unknowne to many, how that of late years
I<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Eccles 2. 24.</NOTE> enjoyed the ble&s;sings of this life with much com|fort,
and how I then lived in good credit, being
much re&s;pected of friends and kindred who<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 55. 14.</NOTE> de|lighted
in my company, and many were as glad to receive
courte&s;ies from me, as I was willing to be&s;tow them.<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 23. 24.</NOTE> But
this la&s;ted not long, for after a while<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 3. 26.</NOTE> I fell into many
troubles, and then<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 107. 27.</NOTE> I lo&s;t my &s;elfe,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Job 19. 14.</NOTE> and my friends, I
lo&s;t my<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 23. 5.</NOTE> e&s;tate, my<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 7. 5.</NOTE> credit, and<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Rev. 18. 17.</NOTE> trading, and after that
to make up the Tragedy, I lo&s;t my liberty, being<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 30.</NOTE> ca&s;t
into pri&s;on for a &s;mall debt, which I was not able to pay,
and being there a while (<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 Sam 30. 4.</NOTE> at the center of all my trou|bles
and mi&s;eries)<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 69 20.</NOTE> de&s;titute of all outward comforts,
did then begin to thinke<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 39. 5.</NOTE> of the vanities of the world,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Eccles 2. 17.</NOTE>
and<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 25. 1.</NOTE> lifting up my &s;oule to God,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37 4.</NOTE> de&s;ired him to give
me &s;ome inward comfort, which was not in vaine, for
being<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Pro. 3. 6.</NOTE> directed by him, I found<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Rom. 12. 12.</NOTE> patience,<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1. 12.</NOTE> and peace
of con&s;cience: I found<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 5.</NOTE> contentment,<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">and 10. 24.</NOTE> love and<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Job 10. 12.</NOTE> fa|vour,
I found<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 2.</NOTE> joy of heart,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4. 23.</NOTE> and liberty of minde, &s;o
that at length moe thought<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Phil. 3. 8.</NOTE> I found a great deale more
then I lo&s;t, all which by a diligence<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">John 5. 39.</NOTE> &s;earch I found out of
Gods Word the holy Bible, which was the onely Booke <HI>I</HI>
had (for in my nece&s;sities <HI>I</HI> was forced to pawne and &s;ell
away all my other books) Wherefore<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Acts 17. 11.</NOTE> I applying my &s;elf
wholly thereunto, found therein &s;uch<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 16.</NOTE> variety of matter
<PB REF="4">
(<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 9<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 143.</NOTE> wherewith my &s;oule was &s;o delighted) that <HI>I</HI> could not
be quiet in my mind untill <HI>I</HI> had &s;et up a new trade, (for,
for want of other imployment <HI>I</HI> was fain to turne Poet)
and although <HI>I</HI> was very<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Heb. 5. 13.</NOTE> unskilfull therein, being but
a<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2. 2.</NOTE> new beginner) yet my endeavours were not wanting
to give the be&s;t content <HI>I</HI> could to all my cu&s;tomers both
at home and abroad. Yet notwith&s;tanding all this, in
regard <HI>I</HI> could not procure &s;o much as would di&s;charge
my chamber rent, I was threatned by my Landlord (the
Ma&s;ter of the Pri&s;on) to be turned out of my lodging and
put into a<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Act. 5. 18.</NOTE> wor&s;e place in the &s;ame pri&s;on, which did in
&s;ome &s;ort trouble my minde, becau&s;e <HI>I</HI> knew not how to
prevent it. But while&s;t I was mu&s;ing with my &s;elfe how
I &s;hould<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Jer. 37&punc; 20.</NOTE> be able to endure that mi&s;ery,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jer. 38&punc; 8, 9.</NOTE> the Lord rai|&s;ed
me up a friend in another Kingdome,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Jer. 38. 13.</NOTE> by who&s;e
meanes I was forthwith delivered out of that di&s;tre&s;&s;e,
and &s;et at liberty.</P>
<P>Since which time till now of late <HI>I</HI> was not re&s;olved
to publi&s;h the&s;e the fir&s;t fruits of my poore endeavours:
but being thereunto moved by &s;ome friends, and con&s;ide|ring
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Rom. 15. 4.</NOTE> the &s;ub&s;tance thereof drawne from the holy Scrip|tures
&s;o agreeable to each circum&s;tance, <HI>I</HI> could not but
conceive them worthy of acceptance, and the rather be|cau&s;e
people<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Act. 13. 26.</NOTE> of all &s;orts, whether they be young or old,
male or female, rich or poore, whether they live in pro|&s;perity
or adver&s;ity, whether they bee &s;icke or in health,
they may ob&s;erve and &s;ucke &s;ome &s;weetne&s;&s;e out of them,
although they &s;eeme to be never &s;o plaine, I know they
<PB REF="4">
are<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 3. 12.</NOTE> very plaine, and therefore may peradventure bee
by &s;ome curious wits the le&s;&s;e regarded, but tho&s;e who
are of<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 34. 2.</NOTE> an humble &s;pirit, will like them never a whit the
wor&s;e for that, but rather conclude and &s;ay (according to
the old Proverbe) that plaine dealing is a jewell, and
make good u&s;e thereof<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 31</NOTE> to Gods glory, and their<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 50</NOTE> owne
comfort.</P>
<P>To conclude:<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 33. 12, 13.</NOTE> The Pri&s;on was the be&s;t Schoole that
ever I went to, and<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Mat. 22. 16.</NOTE> he that taught me, the be&s;t Ma&s;ter
that ever taught, the booke <HI>I</HI> learned in<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 15.</NOTE> the be&s;t booke
that ever was read, the le&s;&s;on <HI>I</HI> learned out of that book,
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4. 11.</NOTE> the be&s;t le&s;&s;on that ever <HI>I</HI> learned, and the time <HI>I</HI> &s;pent
there<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 33. 12, 13.</NOTE> the be&s;t time that ever <HI>I</HI> &s;pent. An accompt of
all which <HI>I</HI> have briefly and plainly &s;et downe in the en|&s;uing
particular directions contained in this &s;mall Vo|lume,
which <HI>I</HI> humbly pre&s;ent to all tho&s;e that<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Pro. 2. 3, 4, 5.</NOTE> de&s;ire the
knowledge of<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 162</NOTE> Gods word, the onely<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 9. 9.</NOTE> refuge for the
di&s;tre&s;&s;ed and afflicted, and chiefe&s;t joy and<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 16</NOTE> delight to
tho&s;e that are in pro&s;perity, who count them&s;elves but
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 19 Heb. 11. 13.</NOTE>&s;trangers in this world, &s;etting little by the things of
greate&s;t price (they enjoy here) in compari&s;on of tho&s;e
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Luke 12. 33.</NOTE> heavenly trea&s;ures above which are not &s;eene.</P>
<P>Now although it bee but a little<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Luke 11. 33.</NOTE> candle (which <HI>I</HI>
thought not good to keepe &s;ecret any longer) yet it giveth
&s;o much light as the Reader may thereby &s;ee and ob&s;erve
that this worke is none of mine, the maine &s;ub&s;tance
and matter is Gods owne word. In the labour of di&s;po|&s;ing
and ordering them, <HI>I</HI> have u&s;ed my be&s;t skill, and if
<PB REF="5">
you plea&s;e to accept of them, I &s;hall then thinke my time
well &s;pent for the good of others as well as my &s;elfe: De|&s;iring
the Lord to ble&s;&s;e and pro&s;per all our good endea|vours,
that we may<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Acts 23 1.</NOTE> &s;o live in his feare, and<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">John 15. 8.</NOTE> glorifie
him in this life, as we may hereafter<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rom. 14. 8.</NOTE> dye in his favour,
and be<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 16, 17.</NOTE> glorified of him in the world to come. Amen.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours in all true loving
and Chri&s;tian affection,
William Bagwell.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>The Preface.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To all Chri&s;tian people di&s;tre&s;&s;ed and afflicted in what
kinde &s;oever.</HEAD>
<P>ALL men naturally<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 30. 8.</NOTE> de&s;ire to live peaceably, conten|tedly,
and to be freed from all manner of<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 143. 11.</NOTE> troubles,
afflictions and di&s;tre&s;&s;es (<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 10.</NOTE> which are &s;o grievous to
the &s;en&s;es,) but this happeneth to none,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 5. 7.</NOTE> for every one have
their cro&s;&s;es in &s;ome kinde or other, or at one time or other,
in<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 38. 3.</NOTE> body or<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Gen. 26. 35.</NOTE> mind, or<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Job 6. 2.</NOTE> both,<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 144. 7.</NOTE> either in the having of that
which they de&s;ire not, or in the<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jam. 4. 2.</NOTE> want of that which they de|&s;ire,
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eccles 9. 2.</NOTE> all which is common both to the<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 34. 19.</NOTE> good and to the
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">&amp; 32. 10.</NOTE> bad, for who can &s;ay that his body hath beene alwayes
freed from<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Mat. 9. 35.</NOTE> &s;ickne&s;&s;e, his &s;oule from<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 13. 2.</NOTE> &s;orrow, his per&s;on
from<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. 36.</NOTE> impri&s;onment or other inconveniences, his &s;tate from
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 29.</NOTE> poverty, or his name from<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">&amp; 119. 22.</NOTE> contempt, &amp;c? Or what man
(though he<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Eccles 5. 10.</NOTE> enjoy the outward ble&s;&s;ings of this life) can &s;ay
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Eccles 4. 8.</NOTE> his minde is &s;atisfied and contented therewith, or that he is
free from<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Jer. 6. 13.</NOTE> covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">E&s;ther 6. 7. 8. 9.</NOTE> ambition,<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 39. 2.</NOTE> vain-glory,<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 2.</NOTE> &s;elfe-conceit,<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Pro. 20. 6.</NOTE>
or &s;ome other &s;uch like<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 5.</NOTE> inordinate affections of the
minde, with the which he<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">E&s;th. 5. 9. 13.</NOTE> afflicteth him&s;elfe,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Eccles 6. 2.</NOTE> and is an evill
di&s;ea&s;e? The other (happening by Gods providence to
tho&s;e that<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 103. 7.</NOTE> are acquainted with his wayes)<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 6.</NOTE> are evident
&s;ignes of Gods love towards them, which is the rea&s;on<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 3. 18.</NOTE> they
&s;ubmit them&s;elves &s;o willingly to undergoe them, knowing
that<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 71</NOTE> they are the &s;eed, the occa&s;ion, the matter of well do|ing,
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rom. 5. 3, 4, 5</NOTE> and the di&s;coverers of many excellent vertues which
are not &s;eene in them<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Deut. 6. 10, 11, 12.</NOTE> while&s;t they live in pro&s;perity: And
therefore although<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Dan. 9. 16.</NOTE> adver&s;ity be the puni&s;hment of &s;in, yet
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Acts 28. 4.</NOTE> God in puni&s;hing of men doth not alwayes<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">John 9. 3.</NOTE> re&s;pect &s;inne,
wherefore<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Luke 13. 2, 3, 4, 5.</NOTE> they judge ra&s;hly which either doe not wait for
the<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Job 42. 12.</NOTE> end, or doe judge and<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Jam. 2. 2, 3, 4</NOTE> e&s;teeme of men according to
pro&s;perity or adver&s;ity. But when men<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Job 29 7, 8.</NOTE> that have lived in
good reputation and credit<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Job 30. 11.</NOTE> are once fallen into trouble and
<PB REF="6">
mi&s;ery,<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88 18.</NOTE> then their beloved friends and acquaintance fall a|way
from them, and<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Job 14. 13.</NOTE> the more<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 32. 4.</NOTE> heavie Gods hand is upon
them, the more<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Job 16. 2.</NOTE> they neglect and<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 22. 6.</NOTE> de&s;pi&s;e them, but when
they find by experience<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 60. 11.</NOTE> the helple&s;ne&s;&s;e of earthly things,
they are then weaned<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 2. 15.</NOTE> from the love of the world, and kept
from<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Zeph. 2. 15.</NOTE> living carele&s;ly,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 5. 15.</NOTE> they draw the nearer to God, know|ing
that<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 7.</NOTE> they are tokens and pledges of their adoption. And
con&s;idering with them&s;elves that their<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 5. 6, 7.</NOTE> afflictions come not
unto them by chance,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 3. 3.</NOTE> but from Gods decree and appoint|ment,
and that the<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Rev. 2 10.</NOTE> continuance and<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Jer. 46. 28.</NOTE> mea&s;ure of them is
appointed by him, they then never<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 11<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> 6.</NOTE> &s;tand much upon the
malice of men, or<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Rev. 2. 10.</NOTE> rage of Divels, but<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 5. 3.</NOTE> looke up principal|ly
to him with this<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Dan 3. 17.</NOTE> a&s;&s;urance, that hee will deliver them
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Jer. 30. 11.</NOTE> when his mea&s;ure is full,<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 9.</NOTE> in good time. In the meane
while, their<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. 17.</NOTE> faith,<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5. 11.</NOTE> patience,<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">2 Chr. 33. 12.</NOTE> humility,<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. 8.</NOTE> obedience, and
&s;uch like noble<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4. 8, 9.</NOTE> vertues are &s;et a worke, and<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">John 15. 8.</NOTE> God in them
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 4. 14.</NOTE> glorified.</P>
<P>But few men have this great gift &amp; priviledge to<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 12.</NOTE> &s;uffer af|flictions
patiently. Every<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 9, 10.</NOTE> hypocrite will &s;erve God while&s;t
he pro&s;pereth and ble&s;&s;eth him,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 28. 15</NOTE> but when he falls into trou|bles
he is then led by the divel to impatiency,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19 3.</NOTE> fretting,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ex. 15. 23, 24</NOTE> mur|muring,
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 59. 15.</NOTE> grudging,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 57. 17.</NOTE> frowardne&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 18. 20</NOTE> and mo&s;t painfull pen|&s;ivene&s;&s;e,
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 9. 1.</NOTE> all which doe vexe him more by many degrees,
then the troubles them&s;elves, and when he<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 65. 14.</NOTE> cries for helpe,
it is either paine or<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Fx. 10. 16, 17</NOTE> feare that cau&s;eth him &s;o to doe, &s;o that
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Jer. 6. 10.</NOTE> he cannot re&s;t upon Gods word with<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Jer. 16. 5.</NOTE> peace. The childe
of God<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Job 3. 3. 20.</NOTE> may likewi&s;e be<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Jer. 20. 14. &amp;c</NOTE> very impatient in his afflictions,
&amp; utter<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Job 30. 21.</NOTE> dangerous &s;peeches, by which means he may for a
time have<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Gen. 37. 35.</NOTE> no comfort in trouble, but<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">John 14. 18.</NOTE> God leaves him not
&s;o to him&s;elfe always comfortle&s;&s;e, but hath a time to<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 39. 13.</NOTE> reco|ver
him&s;elfe againe, and<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 118. 21</NOTE> then he prai&s;eth the Lord who
often times<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 89 31, 32</NOTE> inflicteth upon his children temporall afflicti|ons,
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 17.</NOTE> that hee may deliver them from eternall de&s;truction.
And herein doth the wi&s;edome and<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 27. 13.</NOTE> goodne&s;&s;e of God ap|peare,
for<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1. 8, 9.</NOTE> by afflictions we come to the knowledge of our
&s;elves, and repo&s;e<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Mic. 7. 5.</NOTE> no confidence in any creature, and like|wi&s;e
<PB REF="6">
wi&s;e to the<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Chr. 33. 13</NOTE> knowledge of God, repo&s;ing all<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 22. 3. Nah. 1. 7.</NOTE> tru&s;t and con|fidence
in him, and thus<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 71.</NOTE> affliction begetteth under&s;tanding
in tho&s;e that are afflicted, in &s;o much that the<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mar. 8. 34, 35</NOTE> cro&s;&s;e is to the
children of God mercy, and<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mat. 10. 39.</NOTE> lo&s;&s;e is gaine,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Phil. 3. 7.</NOTE> afflictions are
their &s;chooling, and<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 7.</NOTE> adver&s;ity their be&s;t Univer&s;itie, by
which they learne how to<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 4. 14, 15.</NOTE> avoid the dangerous<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Mat 7. 13.</NOTE> broad
way of the wicked of this<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 John 2. 16.</NOTE> world, which is &s;o<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eccles 2. 8.</NOTE> plea&s;ing to
fle&s;h and bloud, and are turned into the<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Mat. 22. 16. Pro. 15. 24.</NOTE> right way to heaven,
which in regard of its<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Mat. 7. 14:</NOTE> narrowne&s;&s;e and &s;traitne&s;&s;e, &s;o few
de&s;ire to walke therein. This being<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 50. 22.</NOTE> con&s;idered, there are
none able to goe through the<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 86. 17.</NOTE> troubles and cro&s;&s;es of this
life with comfort,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Mar. 3. 34.</NOTE> but &s;uch as utterly mi&s;tru&s;ting<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 12</NOTE> their
owne a&s;&s;uredne&s;&s;e and<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 146. 3.</NOTE> all worldly ayd and helpe of man,
<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">&amp; 37 7.</NOTE> doe wholly depend upon<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 62. 2.</NOTE> Gods defence. But there are
&s;ome which complaine of the<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 13. 1.</NOTE> tediou&s;ne&s;&s;e of their afflicti|ons,
becau&s;e they are afflicted almo&s;t<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Gen. 47. 9.</NOTE> all the dayes of their
lives even to the very death. To &s;uch<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 41. 10.</NOTE> God will te&s;tifie his
holy pre&s;ence another, way namely by<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 13</NOTE> giving the di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed
parties power and &s;trength to beare their afflictions. But
how can we<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4 17.</NOTE> count our afflictions &s;o tedious and long,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 14. 1.</NOTE> &s;ee|ing
our lives are &s;o &s;hort? how&s;oever<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Neh. 1. 3.</NOTE> let them be never &s;o
great and tedious, they are<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ezra 9. 13.</NOTE> far inferiour to our &s;innes; yet
every man by nature<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 40. 17. &amp; 69. 17.</NOTE> de&s;ires Gods ready helpe in his nece&s;|&s;ities
and troubles, but few attain unto it, becau&s;e they<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mat. 30. 31.</NOTE> want
faith to beleeve it,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Mar. 11. 24.</NOTE> prayer to obtaine it, and<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">2 King. 6. 33</NOTE> patience to
wait for it. But on the contrary, if they<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">James 5. 11.</NOTE> endure their affli|ctions
quietly,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 13 5.</NOTE> tru&s;t in Gods mercies firmly,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 40. 31.</NOTE> and tarry his
good plea&s;ure obediently, then although they &s;eeme to bee
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 57 3.</NOTE> &s;wallowed up in mi&s;ery, they &s;hall finde<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 46. 1.</NOTE> the Lord ready
at hand to deliver them. Now<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 8.</NOTE> how&s;oever the child of God
be afflicted he &s;hall finde<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 23. 4.</NOTE> many comforts therein, in regard
they are like unto a<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 25. 4.</NOTE> &s;torme that commeth and goeth. Let
no man therefore that is afflicted<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 41. 11.</NOTE> &s;truggle under Gods
hand, for then it will be the wor&s;e for him, for<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Jer. 50&punc; 24.</NOTE> there is no
&s;triving or wra&s;tling with him<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Exod. 32. 10, 11, 14.</NOTE> but by<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Gen. 32. 9, 10. 11.</NOTE> prayer: hee there|fore
<PB REF="7">
that with<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Col. 1. 11.</NOTE> plea&s;ure and joy endures adver&s;ity<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 36.</NOTE> for
Chri&s;ts &s;ake, may thinke he hath found the<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Luke 17. 21.</NOTE> Kingdome of
Heaven here on earth,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 149. 4.</NOTE> and God will delight in him.<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Cant. 7. 6.</NOTE> For
as the fi&s;h is &s;weete&s;t that lives in the &s;alte&s;t waters,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 72. 14.</NOTE> &s;o
tho&s;e<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 49. 8.</NOTE> &s;oules are mo&s;t precious unto Chri&s;t
who are mo&s;t<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 11.</NOTE> exerci&s;ed and<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 6.</NOTE> afflict|ed
with his Cro&s;&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine in Chri&s;t.
W. B.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="explanation of marginalia">
<PB REF="7">
<HEAD>Authors.</HEAD>
<P>The Quotations in the Margent (which &s;erve
for Proofes, Rea&s;ons, Examples, or things pertinent
to the &s;en&s;e of each particular) are taken</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="bibliographic references">
<HEAD>Fir&s;t out of the Bookes of the Canonicall Scripture, the
Old and New Te&s;tament.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="list">
<HEAD>1. The Old Te&s;tament.</HEAD>
<P>GEne&s;is. Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomie. Io|&s;hua.
Iudges. Ruth. 1 Samuel. 2 Samuel. 1 Kings. 2 Kings.
1 Chronicles. 2 Chronicles. Ezra. Nehemiah. E&s;ther. Iob.
P&s;almes. Proverbs. Eccle&s;ia&s;tes. The Song of Salomon. I&s;aiah.
Ieremiah. Lamentations. Ezekiel. Daniel. Ho&s;ea. Ioel. Amos.
Obadiab. Ionah. Micah. Nahum. Habakkuk. Zephaniah. Hag|gal.
Zechariah. Malachy.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="list">
<HEAD>II. The New Te&s;tament.</HEAD>
<P>MAtthew. Marke. Luke. Iohn. Acts. Romanes. 1 Corin|thians.
2 Corinthians. Galatians. Ephe&s;ians. Philippi|ans.
Colo&s;sians. 1 The&s;&s;alonians. 2 The&s;&s;alonians. 1 Timothy.
2 Timothy. Titus. Phileman. Hebrewes. Iames. 1 Peter. 2 Pe|ter.
1 Iohn. 2 Iohn. 3 Iohn. Iude. Revelations.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="bibliographic references">
<HEAD>Secondly, out of the Bookes called Apochrypha.</HEAD>
<P>1 ESdras. 2 E&s;dras. Tobit. Iudeth. The re&s;t of E&s;ther. Wi&s;e|dome.
Eccle&s;ia&s;ticus. Baruch. The Song of the three Chil|dren.
Su&s;anna. The Idol Bel and the Dragon. The Prayer of
Mana&s;&s;eh. 1 Maccabees. 2 Maccabees.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="table of contents">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>The Contents of this Booke.
The Pri&s;oner</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>To his fellow-pri&s;oners.</HEAD>
<ITEM>TO the comfortle&s;&s;e pri&s;oner. pag. 1</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the pri&s;oner that lay &s;ick a bed. 3</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the Sea man, a pri&s;oner. 6</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the &s;tranger, a pri&s;oner. 7</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the faint-hearted pri&s;oner. 8</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the Scholler a pri&s;oner. 12</ITEM>
<ITEM>To an ancient man a pri&s;oner, exceedingly
oppre&s;&s;ed with &s;orrow upon &s;orrow. 15</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the men which were pri&s;oners in the
hole. 21</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the prodigall young man, a pri&s;oner. 28</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the pri&s;oners called by the name of Rats
which are debauched men, taken at unlaw|full
houres in the night by the Watch, and
brought into pri&s;on. 31</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the Carrier, a pri&s;oner. 34</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the Card player, a pri&s;oner. 40</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the Papi&s;t, a pri&s;oner. 43</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the Captaine, a pri&s;oner. 54</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the Merchant, a pri&s;oner. 60</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the merry man, a pri&s;oner. 63</ITEM>
<ITEM>To an old man, a pri&s;oner. 68</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the women which were pri&s;oners in the
Hole. 69</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the impatient pri&s;oner. 73</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the unruly young man, a pri&s;oner. 88</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the pri&s;oners called by the name of
Mice, which are light hu&s;wives taken at un|lawfull
houres in the night, and brought to
pri&s;on. 90</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the pri&s;oner that was to bee di&s;charged
and &s;et at liberty. 99</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the carele&s;&s;e man, a pri&s;oner. 102</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the rich man, a pri&s;oner. 104</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the idle man, a pri&s;oner. 105</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the di&s;&s;embling hypocrite, a pri&s;oner. 108</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his chamber fellows and others di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed
pri&s;oners of the Knights Ward, which
were there &s;hut up of the plague. 112</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>To others, not pri&s;oners.</HEAD>
<ITEM>TO the cruell Creditor. pag. 1</ITEM>
<ITEM>To him that betrayed the pri&s;oner into
his adver&s;aries hands. 4</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his Sonne. 10</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his elde&s;t Daughter. 17</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the creditor that domineer'd over his
poore debtor in pri&s;on. 20</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his younge&s;t Daughter. 25</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the ma&s;ter of the Tap-hou&s;e. 39</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his Brother. 51</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the mercifull Creditor. 53</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the ma&s;ter of the pri&s;on. 58</ITEM>
<ITEM>To a worthy charitable Knight. 64</ITEM>
<ITEM>To an ancient Maid, a true-hearted friend,
that was mindfull of him in his troubles.
66</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his intimate friend, a divine Lawyer. 67</ITEM>
<ITEM>To a pri&s;oners wife of a refractory conditi|on.
74</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his owne dejected comfortle&s;&s;e wife.
77</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his Maid &s;ervant. 83</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his Mother. 94</ITEM>
<ITEM>To tho&s;e that come to vi&s;it their friends in
pri&s;on. 100</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the Commi&s;&s;ioners appointed by his
Maje&s;tie for the reliefe of poore pri&s;oners.
110</ITEM>
<ITEM>The pri&s;oner at liberty, his thankful remem|brance
of Gods great mercies towards him
in his manifold deliverances out of many
great dangers and troubles to this pre&s;ent.
114</ITEM>
<ITEM>To his good friend (beyond Sea) that gave
order to his friend to &s;ee him &s;et at liberty.
117</ITEM>
<ITEM>To a carefull friend that di&s;charged the tru&s;t
committed to him (by his friend) in &s;eeing
the pri&s;oner freed out of pri&s;on. 118</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>THE MERCHANT
DISTRESSED,
HIS OBSERVATIONS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. I.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the comfortle&s;&s;e Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>BE not<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 41. 10</NOTE> di&s;may'd, thou that art lodged here:</L>
<L>What need'&s;t thou care, if thy<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 15.</NOTE> con&s;cience be cleer?<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclu&s;. 14. 2. Acts 24. 16.</NOTE></L>
<L>Thy<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 King 4. 1.</NOTE> Creditors perhaps may be unkinde:</L>
<L>What though? fear not, but bear an<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 15. 2.</NOTE> hone&s;t minde.<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 18.</NOTE></L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. 18.</NOTE> Thy friends and thine acquaintaince may neglect thee:<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 6. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>What though? be<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5. 11.</NOTE> patient, God will not<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Chro. 33. 12. 13</NOTE> forget thee.<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 9. 18.</NOTE></L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Acts 12. 6.</NOTE> The Pri&s;on doubtle&s;&s;e is a place of care:</L>
<L>What though? rejoyce,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Gen. 39. 21</NOTE> for God is with thee there.</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Gen. 40. 14</NOTE> U&s;e lawfull meanes,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 5.</NOTE> and on God &s;till depend:</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s; 71. 20. 21.</NOTE> Hee'll quickly bring thy troubles to an end.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 18. 8.</NOTE><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 2.</NOTE></L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. II.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the cruell Creditor.</HEAD>
<L>WHy is thy minde &s;o bent to<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 28.</NOTE> crueltie<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 71. 4. Pro. 11. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>Again&s;t thy poore Debtor, which here doth lie?</L>
<L><PB N="2" REF="9">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">a King. 4. 1.</NOTE> Is it thy debt thou would'&s;t have him to pay?</L>
<L>Alas,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 25. &amp;</NOTE> he can't, the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">v. 30.</NOTE> pri&s;on's not the way.</L>
<L>What is't, his<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 27. 2.</NOTE> fle&s;h thou then would'&s;t have alone?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Micah 3. 2.</NOTE></L>
<L>The<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 19. 26.</NOTE> wormes mu&s;t needs have that to feed upon.</L>
<L>What is it then, his<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Micah 3. 3.</NOTE> bones thou would'&s;t faine have?</L>
<L>That cannot be,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 24. 32. 2 Sam. 21. 14.</NOTE> they mu&s;t goe to the grave.</L>
<L>What would'&s;t thou doe with them? make dice to &s;ell?</L>
<L>Or with them play away thy &s;oule to hell?</L>
<L>As for his &s;oule, &s;urely thou can&s;t not have it;</L>
<L>For that mu&s;t needs<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Eccles. 12. 7.</NOTE> returne to God that gave it.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 15.</NOTE> Do&s;t thou by this cour&s;e ever thinke to thrive,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 12</NOTE> To bury thy poore debtor here alive?</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 12</NOTE> Ten thou&s;and talents to the Lord thou ow'&s;t,</L>
<L>And yet hee's<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 27.</NOTE> mercifull to thee thou know'&s;t.</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Pro. 21 13. Job. 19. 21.</NOTE> And ha&s;t thou no pittie on him in thrall,</L>
<L>That owes thee but<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 28.</NOTE> an hundred pence in all?</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 32 33.</NOTE> If God &s;hould deale with thee, as thou with him,</L>
<L>In what great<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">v. 34.</NOTE> mi&s;ery then would&s;t thou be in?</L>
<L>What if in this ca&s;e God &s;hould take away</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Luk. 12. 20</NOTE> Thy &s;oule, and call thee to accompt this day?</L>
<L><NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Rom. 2. 15. 16.</NOTE> Thy guilty con&s;cience then would &s;oone accu&s;e thee:</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Mat 25. 43</NOTE> And for thy crueltie Chri&s;t would refu&s;e thee.</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 34.</NOTE> Then into hell that<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Luk. 16. 26.</NOTE> gulfe of mi&s;erie,</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Rev. 20. 10.</NOTE> Thou &s;hould'&s;t be ca&s;t to live eternally,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 9. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>In wofull torments, where<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Rev. 14. 11.</NOTE> no re&s;t is found,</L>
<L>And where all &s;uch as thou art, are<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 22. 13.</NOTE> fa&s;t bound.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 20. 2. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>Wherefore if thou tho&s;e judgements would'&s;t prevent,</L>
<L>Be<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5 7.</NOTE> mercifull, kinde, loving, and<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Rom. 12. 10</NOTE> repent.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Act. 26. 20</NOTE> Di&s;charge thy poore debtor out of this place,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 3.</NOTE> As thou would'&s;t be di&s;charg'd being in his ca&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Luk. 6. 31.</NOTE> Then God will mollifie thy &s;tony heart.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 36. 26.</NOTE> And likewi&s;e ble&s;&s;e thee where&s;oe're thou art,</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="3" REF="9">
<HEAD>CHAP. III.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Pri&s;oner that lay &s;ick upon his bed.</HEAD>
<L>THe<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Gen. 40 14</NOTE> Pri&s;on of it &s;elfe is tedious to thee,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 6. 2.</NOTE> But &s;ickne&s;&s;e therewithall may quite undoe thee.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 30. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>Where art thou &s;ick, in body or in minde?</L>
<L>Or art thou griev'd<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 22. 21, 22. &amp; 12. 9.</NOTE> becau&s;e friends are unkinde?</L>
<L>Art not thou &s;ick and pained at the<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 13. 12.</NOTE> heart,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 38. 10. P&s;al. 55. 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>Becau&s;e thou<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 24. 22.</NOTE> can&s;t not from this place depart?</L>
<L>Thinke with thy &s;elfe, that thy<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 107. 17, 18.</NOTE> &s;ins are the cau&s;e<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 38. 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>Of thy di&s;ea&s;e, by the breach of Gods lawes.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 6. 3.</NOTE> Now is thy &s;oule wounded with mortall &s;inne?<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 109. 22.</NOTE></L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 10. 12</NOTE> Oh then 'tis high time for thee to begin</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 40.</NOTE> To looke into thy &s;elfe, and thy condition,</L>
<L>To &s;ee what need thou ha&s;t of the Phy&s;ition,</L>
<L>I meane the great<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Mat. 9. 2.</NOTE> Phy&s;ition of thy &s;oul,</L>
<L>Which is thy Saviour Chri&s;t, who doth controll</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Mat. 28. 18.</NOTE> All things in heaven above, and earth below,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Mat. 9. 6.</NOTE> Hee'll cure thy body and thy &s;oule al&s;o</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Mat. 4. 23.</NOTE> Of all di&s;ea&s;es, if thou him intreat,</L>
<L>And likewi&s;e give thee<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">John 6. 51.</NOTE> heavenly food to ear,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Joh. 6. 54. 58. P&s;al. 56. 13. E&s;ay 55. 2. 3.</NOTE> Whereby thy &s;oule &s;hall live, and be quite freed</L>
<L>Of all di&s;ea&s;es; for 'tis &s;o decreed.</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Luk. 8. 43.</NOTE> Earthly Phy&s;itians will not undertake</L>
<L>Phy&s;ick to give, but for thy moneyes &s;ake;</L>
<L>Unle&s;&s;e thou give them Angells of pure gold,</L>
<L>They'll not come neere thee, be thou young or old:</L>
<L>But when<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mar. 2. 17.</NOTE> Chri&s;t thy Phy&s;itian takes in hand</L>
<L>To cure thy poore &s;ick &s;oule, then under&s;tand</L>
<L>Hee'll not then only take away thy paine,</L>
<L>But cau&s;e his<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 91. 11.</NOTE> Angells with thee to remaine:</L>
<L>Though thou re&s;trained art, yet they are<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 34. 7.</NOTE> free</L>
<L>To come both day and night to vi&s;it thee.</L>
<L><PB N="4" REF="10">
Wherefore receive from God this cha&s;ti&s;ement</L>
<L>With<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 116. 17.</NOTE> thankfull heart, and therewith be content.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Act. 16. 25. 26.</NOTE> And then this pri&s;on &s;hall not thee annoy,</L>
<L>But be a pallace to thee day by day.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Jer. 38. 13</NOTE> Out of which place the Lord will thee deliver,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 11. 8.</NOTE></L>
<L>And take thee up to live with him for ever.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. IV.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To him that betrayed the Pri&s;oner into his
Adver&s;aries hands.</HEAD>
<L>WHat trade art thou, oh Traitor! can&s;t thou tell?</L>
<L>Is it thy occupation now to &s;ell</L>
<L>Thy friend to one that meanes him to oppre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And lay him up to live in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e?</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 55. 13, 14. Pro. 26. 25.</NOTE> Thou cam'&s;t unto him, and did&s;t &s;peake him faire,</L>
<L>Which made him often unto thee repaire,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 41. 9.</NOTE> Becau&s;e he did beleeve what thou did&s;t &s;ay,</L>
<L>Not thinking then that thou would'&s;t him betray:</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Mat. 26. 15, 16.</NOTE> But when thou had&s;t fit opportunitie,</L>
<L>Thou him deliver'd&s;t to his enemie:</L>
<L>Who keepes him fa&s;t in pri&s;on like a &s;lave,</L>
<L>Which, thou art to be blam'd for like a knave.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 26. 16</NOTE> But tell me, Traitor, how did&s;t thou him &s;ell?</L>
<L>For a French Crown, a Noble, or Angell?</L>
<L>Doubtle&s;&s;e thy Chapman gave thee more for him</L>
<L>Then ere hee's like to get of him agin.</L>
<L>But why ha&s;t thou thy friend &s;old for a &s;ong</L>
<L>Which to another ju&s;tly doth belong?</L>
<L>The bargaine thou ha&s;t made mu&s;t needs be voyd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 6. 20</NOTE> For Chri&s;t bought him before, and for him paid.</L>
<L>Wherefore thy Chapman cannot keep him long,</L>
<L>Although he hath him in a place &s;o &s;trong.</L>
<L><PB N="5" REF="10">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Gal. 4. 31.</NOTE> He &s;hall be free,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 69. 33.</NOTE> for Chri&s;t doth him regard,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 55. 23.</NOTE> And for thy treacherie hee'll thee reward.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 16. 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>Take thou example by <HI>Iudas</HI> thy Brother,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 26. 24, 25.</NOTE> Who for treacherie did exceed all other;</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mat. 26. 25 &amp;</NOTE> His Ma&s;ter he betray'd, who was a<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">27. 29.</NOTE> King,</L>
<L>And thou thy friend betray'd&s;t for a &s;mall thing.</L>
<L><HI>Iudas</HI> was puni&s;ht, and &s;o &s;halt thou be;</L>
<L>For thou a Traitor art as well as he:</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Mat. 27. 3, 4.</NOTE> Yet he confe&s;s'd his fault, and did re&s;tore</L>
<L>The money back, which he receiv'd before,</L>
<L>To doe the deed about the which he went;</L>
<L>Which having done, he then &s;eem'd to<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Mat. 27. 4.</NOTE> repent.</L>
<L>Yet for all that, he being voyd of grace,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 27. 5. Acts 1. 18.</NOTE> Dy'd in de&s;paire in a mo&s;t wofull ca&s;e.</L>
<L>Let me advi&s;e thee, be like him in this,</L>
<L>Confe&s;&s;e, re&s;tore, repent; 'tis not ami&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>But doe not<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Mat. 27. 5.</NOTE> hang thy &s;elfe, as <HI>Iudas</HI> did,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Acts 16. 27 28.</NOTE> Becau&s;e &s;uch things thou know'&s;t God doth forbid.</L>
<L>But give over thy trade of treacherie,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Acts 8. 22</NOTE> And call to God for grace before thou die,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 18</NOTE> That thou may'&s;t as an hone&s;t man here live,</L>
<L>Untill thy &s;oule to God thou do&s;t up give.</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Rev. 22. 14. 2 Tim. 2. 12.</NOTE> Heaven is the place where faithfull men &s;hall raigne,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21. 27.</NOTE> Which place no lying traitor &s;hall obtaine.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. V.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Sea-man, a Pri&s;oner:</HEAD>
<L>THou Sea-man, that art &s;ubject to the weather,</L>
<L>Tell me what winde it was that brought thee hither?</L>
<L>Who was thy Pilot, that had &s;o much skill</L>
<L>To bring thee to this port, again&s;t thy will?</L>
<L>The Serjeants are the Pilots for this Bay:</L>
<L>Without the Compa&s;&s;e they can finde the way.</L>
<L><PB N="6" REF="11">
Doubtle&s;&s;e 'twas &s;ome of them that did thee guide</L>
<L>Unto this Haven, where thou mu&s;t abide.</L>
<L>Thy &s;ailes are down, and now thine Anchor's ca&s;t,</L>
<L>And hence thou can&s;t not budge, thou art &s;o fa&s;t.</L>
<L>Though winde and tide doe &s;erve, yet ha&s;t thou lo&s;t</L>
<L>Thy voyage for this time, to thy great co&s;t.</L>
<L>Now when thou &s;halt depart, thou do&s;t not know,</L>
<L>For till thy peace be made, thou can&s;t not goe.</L>
<L>Whil&s;t thou art here, I wi&s;h thee to con&s;ider</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 146. 7.</NOTE> Who 'tis that mu&s;t thee from this place deliver.</L>
<L>It is the Lord, who&s;e<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 107. 23, 24.</NOTE> wonders thou ha&s;t &s;een,</L>
<L>In the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay. 51. 10</NOTE> deep Sea, where thou ha&s;t often been</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 107. 25. 26. Acts 27. 18.</NOTE> To&s;s'd with the waves in &s;tormes and tempe&s;ts great;</L>
<L>Which<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Jonah 1. 4.</NOTE> raging waves again&s;t the Ship did beat,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Act. 27. 20.</NOTE> In&s;omuch that thou could&s;t not chu&s;e but thinke</L>
<L>The beaten &s;hip would at that in&s;tant &s;inke.</L>
<L>And when thou did&s;t approach<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Acts 27. 27 28. 40. 41.</NOTE> neere to the &s;hore,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 43. 24.</NOTE> The danger then thou know'&s;t was more and more:</L>
<L>For then the<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Act. 27. 29.</NOTE> Rocks and Sands did thee affright,</L>
<L>Which could not be di&s;cern'd in the darke night.</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 107. 28. 29.</NOTE> Then thou on God did&s;t call, and he thee heard,</L>
<L>And from tho&s;e greater dangers thee pre&s;erv'd.</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s; 107. 10.</NOTE> Thus by the Lords great power and mighty hand</L>
<L>In<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Act. 27. 44</NOTE> &s;afety thou wa&s;t brought unto the land:</L>
<L>Where thou no &s;ooner wa&s;t, but did&s;t<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 106. 13</NOTE> neglect</L>
<L>To give him thankes that did thee thus protect:</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Pro. 23. 20</NOTE> But with rude company did&s;t drinke and<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Lev. 19. 12.</NOTE> &s;weare,</L>
<L>Living<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 94 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. Song of the 3 ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l. 5.</NOTE> mo&s;t wickedly without all care:</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">ibid. 7. Neht. 9. 33.</NOTE> Wherefore 'twas ju&s;t with God to let thee fall</L>
<L>Into the&s;e troubles: therefore on him<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 22 4.</NOTE> call</L>
<L>To give thee grace, that thou<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 78. 7.</NOTE> never forget</L>
<L>To<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> 22. 23, 24 &amp; P&s;. 107. 31.</NOTE> prai&s;e his name. Then though thou art in debt,</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 107. 13. 14</NOTE> Thou &s;halt not in this pri&s;on long remaine;</L>
<L>For he will<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Acts. 17. 14</NOTE> &s;end thee to the Sea againe.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="7" REF="11">
<HEAD>CHAP. VI.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Stranger, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>THou that a Stranger art in pri&s;on here,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Jof. 9. 6. Deut. 29. 22.</NOTE> Farre from thy Country, friends and parents deare,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 27. 3. &amp; 73. 26.</NOTE> Be not quite out of heart, for God above</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ruth 2. 10.</NOTE> Will new friends rai&s;e thee here,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;. 23. 11.</NOTE> if thou him love.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Jer. 23. 23.</NOTE> 'Tis not the di&s;tance of the place, that can</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 139. 9. 10.</NOTE> His providence keep back from any man.</L>
<L>God of the<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 146. 9. Deut. 14 29. Wi&s;d. 19. 13.</NOTE> &s;tranger hath a &s;peciall care,</L>
<L>As well in a &s;trange Country, as el&s;ewhere:</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Act. 10. 35.</NOTE> His goodne&s;&s;e and his mercy doth appeare</L>
<L>Throughout the world, to tho&s;e that doe him feare.</L>
<L>What need'&s;t thou then take any thing to heart,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Deut. 10. 18 Heb. 15. 5.</NOTE> Seeing the Lord doth love thee where thou art?</L>
<L>Now<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 14. 5.</NOTE> though thou ha&s;t e&s;tranged been from him,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Nehe. 9. 17</NOTE> Yet hee'll not leave thee to thy &s;elfe to &s;inne.</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 92. 4. &amp; 107. 30.</NOTE> When thou his mercies felt, thou then wa&s;t glad</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 9.</NOTE> But now he thee correcteth, thou art &s;ad.</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 7. 9. Jer. 2. 7.</NOTE> Experience thou ha&s;t of his goodne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>By &s;ea and land; and yet neverthele&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Thou did&s;t forget thy &s;elfe,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 176</NOTE> and went'&s;t a&s;tray,</L>
<L>As travellers doe,<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Rom. 3. 12</NOTE> that are out of the way.</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mat. 11. 7. 8.</NOTE> What cam'&s;t thou in this Country for to &s;ee?</L>
<L>Strange<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 7. 31</NOTE> fa&s;hions? or &s;ome other vanitie?</L>
<L>In pri&s;on here &s;trange things thou may'&s;t behold,</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Gen. 39. 20 &amp; 40. 3.</NOTE> For here vaine people are, both young and old:</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 13. 1.</NOTE> If in &s;uch company thou take delight,</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5. 6. 7.</NOTE> They'll bring thee to a mi&s;erable plight.</L>
<L>Con&s;ider with thy &s;elfe what thou ha&s;t done,</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Exo. 21. 18 19.</NOTE> T'offend; or how in debt and want th'ha&s;t run;</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Pro. 11. 15.</NOTE> For which thou art here laid up to remaine,</L>
<L>Where thou may'&s;t lo&s;e, much more then thou can&s;t gaine.</L>
<L><PB N="8" REF="12">
Wherefore 'tis time for thee to looke about,</L>
<L>To &s;ee if &s;ome<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 17. 17.</NOTE> good friend will helpe thee out.</L>
<L>Endeavour what thou can&s;t,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 King. 8. 41, 42, 43.</NOTE> and crave Gods ayd,</L>
<L>Hee'll &s;tand thy friend, therefore be not di&s;may'd:</L>
<L>And when he thee delivered hath from hence,</L>
<L>Doe what thou can&s;t<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;d. 8. 8.</NOTE> to get experience:</L>
<L>And let me now advi&s;e thee as a &s;tranger,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 21. 1.</NOTE> Thou fall not once againe into &s;uch danger:</L>
<L>But being free,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Acts 17. 21.</NOTE> &s;pend not thy time in vaine,</L>
<L>Then thou with credit may'&s;t<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mar. 5. 19.</NOTE> go home againe.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. VII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the faint-hearted Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>BE not dejected, thou<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 2. 23.</NOTE> faint-hearted man:</L>
<L>What ayl'&s;t thou,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 19. 29.</NOTE> that thou look'&s;t &s;o pale and wan?</L>
<L>Thou think'&s;t it &s;trange in pri&s;on here to lie,</L>
<L>And art<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 22. 18.</NOTE> afraid thou &s;halt be &s;ick and die:</L>
<L>Even as a man at Sea thou &s;eem'&s;t to be,</L>
<L>Sick at the fir&s;t, di&s;temper'd and queafie:</L>
<L>This maladie will not la&s;t very long;</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 39. 13</NOTE> After a while thou wilt againe grow &s;trong.</L>
<L>Take courage man, and doe not him re&s;emble</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Lev. 26. 36.</NOTE> That at &s;mall things is apt to quake and tremble:</L>
<L>The Sergeants thou need'&s;t not at all to feare,</L>
<L>For they are gone, now they have lodg'd thee here:</L>
<L>The Docket man, when he doth for thee call,</L>
<L>To goe along with him unto <HI>Guild hall,</HI></L>
<L>Give him his groat, and pay th'Attorneyes fee,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e they'll not doe any thing for thee:</L>
<L>Thy Creditors, if they doe not Declare,</L>
<L>Non-&s;uit them: for why &s;hould'&s;t thou them forbeare?</L>
<L>And if they doe Declare, be not afraid,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 30.</NOTE> Although this har&s;h cour&s;e they take to be paid.</L>
<L><PB N="9" REF="12">
What if they have taken a re&s;olution,</L>
<L>To charge thee quickly with an execution?</L>
<L>It's very like, that for a time thereby</L>
<L>They may deprive thee of thy libertie.</L>
<L>Yet though thy bodie in pri&s;on they keepe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 12. 17. 1 King. 21 4.</NOTE> Doe not forbeare to eate, drink, re&s;t, and &s;leepe.</L>
<L>What need'&s;t thou<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 56. 11 E&s;ay 51. 12.</NOTE> feare what men can doe unto thee?</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 56. 1.</NOTE> Do'&s;t thinke by this cour&s;e they mean to undoe thee?</L>
<L>Beleeve it, and doe not thy &s;elfe deceive;</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Joh. 19. 11</NOTE> They can no more doe then God gives them leave.</L>
<L>What if to malice they are &s;o much bent?</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 56. 9.</NOTE> Call on the Lord, their de&s;ignes hee'le prevent.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Job 3. 25. 1 Joh, 4. 18.</NOTE> The feare of danger which thou had&s;t, be &s;ure</L>
<L>Is more then that, which thou do'&s;t now endure.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Luke 12. 4</NOTE> Feare thou not tho&s;e that may thy bodie &s;poile,</L>
<L>But cannot give unto thy &s;oule the foile.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Luke 12. 5 P&s;al. 145. 19. Mal. 4. 2. Pro. 3. v.</NOTE> Feare thou the mightie God of I&s;rael,</L>
<L>That can both &s;oule and bodie ca&s;t in hell.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Pro. 16. 6. Ecclus 33. 1.</NOTE> The feare of him which wi&s;e men doe enjoy,</L>
<L>Without all doubt<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 34. 14.</NOTE> drives other feares away.</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 2. 12</NOTE> Wherefore if thou art wi&s;e, doe not give place</L>
<L>To &s;lavi&s;h feare, t'will bring thee to di&s;grace.</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 5</NOTE> Faint not under the Cro&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 26 4.</NOTE> cheere up thy heart,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Eph. 3. 16, and 6 10.</NOTE> Get &s;trength in Chri&s;t, now thou in pri&s;on art.</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 79. 11</NOTE> Then though thou ha&s;t not things here to content,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 33</NOTE> Yet &s;halt thou have no ju&s;t cau&s;e to repent.</L>
<L>For if with<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Heb. 4. 16</NOTE> boldne&s;&s;e thou repayr'&s;t to him</L>
<L>In thy di&s;tre&s;&s;e, then &s;halt thou want nothing.</L>
<L>Hee'le give thee<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 27. 14</NOTE> courage, and much<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">&amp; 29. 11.</NOTE> &s;trength to beare</L>
<L>Thy great afflictions, both here and el&s;ewhere.</L>
<L>And they that laid thee here,<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 18. 11.</NOTE> &s;hall never have</L>
<L>On thee their wills, though they the &s;ame doe crave.</L>
<L>For let them doe to thee the wor&s;t they can,</L>
<L>Thou need'&s;t not feare,<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 51. 6.</NOTE> looke thou up like a man</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Prov. 21. 1 &amp; 15. 11.</NOTE> To him that rules the hearts of men: hee'le plea&s;e</L>
<L>To rule them &s;o, as thine &s;hall have much ea&s;e.</L>
<L><PB N="10" REF="13">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Gen. 28. 15</NOTE> And when God &s;ees it fit thou hence do&s;t goe,</L>
<L>Make him thy friend,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5. 15.</NOTE> and thy time well be&s;tow:</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Jer. 37. 20.</NOTE> That thou no more into this place do&s;t come,</L>
<L>Which is a place all wi&s;e men faine would &s;hun.</L>
<L>Whil&s;t thou art here,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Deut. 31. 8</NOTE> be not at all di&s;may'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 26. 20.</NOTE> Though for a little time thou art here &s;tay'd:</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Prov. 3. 5.</NOTE> But tru&s;t in God,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 1. 6 67.</NOTE> and let thy &s;ins decrea&s;e;</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Dan. 6. 16.</NOTE> Then God out of this place will thee relea&s;e.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. VIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his Sonne.</HEAD>
<L>VVHen I in pri&s;on was, nine yeares agoe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 8. 8. 9.</NOTE> Thou at that time in Pri&s;on wa&s;t al&s;o.</L>
<L>I ne're in pri&s;on was before that time,</L>
<L>No more wa&s;t thou, for then thou wa&s;t not mine.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Gen. 5. 3. Prov. 23. 22.</NOTE> I was the Sergeant that in pri&s;on laid thee,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 51. 5.</NOTE> Thy mother was thy Gaoler that obey'd me.</L>
<L>I, no clo&s;e pri&s;oner was, though I had foes;</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 139. 13.</NOTE> But thou wa&s;t &s;hut up clo&s;e, thy mother knowes.</L>
<L>In pri&s;on I could walke, and looke about,</L>
<L>But thou in pri&s;on then could'&s;t not peepe out:</L>
<L>In pri&s;on I my &s;ight had to my minde,</L>
<L>But thou t'is knowne in pri&s;on wa&s;t &s;tarke blinde:</L>
<L>In pri&s;on I was cold, and tooke much harme;</L>
<L>But thou in pri&s;on wa&s;t kept very warme:</L>
<L>In pri&s;on I hard &s;hift made for my diet;</L>
<L>But thou in pri&s;on had&s;t thy food in quiet:</L>
<L>In pri&s;on I grew leane for want of feeding;</L>
<L>In pri&s;on I know thou had&s;t thy fir&s;t breeding:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 109. 24. Jub 33. 21.</NOTE> My fle&s;h in pri&s;on did con&s;ume away;</L>
<L>But thy fle&s;h then increa&s;ed every day:</L>
<L>In pri&s;on I had alwayes company;</L>
<L>But thou alone in pri&s;on then did&s;t lye:</L>
<L><PB N="11" REF="13">
My Keeper in pri&s;on did me neglect;</L>
<L>But thy Keeper did never thee forget:</L>
<L>My Keeper was a man that was above me;</L>
<L>Thy Keeper was a woman that did love thee;</L>
<L>My Keeper did at me oft-times repine;</L>
<L>But thy Keeper a deare friend was of thine:</L>
<L>My Keeper often &s;aw me in the light;</L>
<L>But thy Keeper depriv'd was of thy &s;ight;</L>
<L>My Keeper I was faine to pray and pay;</L>
<L>But thy Keeper car'd for thee night and day;</L>
<L>I was nine weekes in pri&s;on; &s;o long try'd;</L>
<L>But thou<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 8. 8. 2 Macch. 7. 27</NOTE> nine months in pri&s;on did'&s;t abide:</L>
<L>When I came out of pri&s;on, glad was I;</L>
<L>When thou cam'&s;t out of pri&s;on<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;d. 7. 3.</NOTE> thou did'&s;t cry:</L>
<L>When I came forth I then &s;ome cloaths did lack;</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 21.</NOTE> But thou then had'&s;t not a rag to thy back:</L>
<L>When I came forth, my friends I went to &s;ee;</L>
<L>When thou cam'&s;t forth, thy friends did vi&s;it thee:</L>
<L>Into pri&s;on againe I may adventure;</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Joh. 3. 4.</NOTE> But thou into thy pri&s;on &s;halt ne're enter:</L>
<L>Nine yeares have I my liberty enjoy'd,</L>
<L>But now in pri&s;on am againe annoy'd.</L>
<L>Five times nine yeares and upwards have I liv'd,</L>
<L>Sometimes contentedly, but often griev'd.</L>
<L>Nine yeares in &s;orrowes ha&s;t thou liv'd with me,</L>
<L>Which with thy tender yeares could not agree.</L>
<L>But God, who for his children doth provide,</L>
<L>Hath rais'd thee friends, with whom thou do&s;t abide,</L>
<L>Far di&s;tant from this naughty place; and yet</L>
<L>They love thee dearly, which I'le ne're forget;</L>
<L>Where thou good breeding ha&s;t, and may'&s;t have &s;till,</L>
<L>With all things el&s;e according to my will;</L>
<L>And where thou willingly &s;hunn'&s;t that that's naught,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 30. 3. 4. Eccles 4. 13.</NOTE> And al&s;o learn'&s;t apace what thou art taught.</L>
<L>If thou continu'&s;t as thou ha&s;t begun,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 10. 1. &amp; 23. 24. 25.</NOTE> I then &s;hall have of thee much joy my Son.</L>
<L><PB N="12" REF="14">
And now to<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 13. 22. 3 John 11.</NOTE> goodne&s;&s;e I heare thy minde's bent,</L>
<L>In all my troubles I &s;hall have content.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 3. 6</NOTE> The hope of comfort which of thee I have,</L>
<L>Makes me rejoyce in this living mens grave.</L>
<L>Wherefore<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 6. 18 2 Tim. 3. 15. Pro. 22. 6,</NOTE> learne now whil&s;t thou art young and tender,</L>
<L>Then thou hereafter wilt the &s;ame remember.</L>
<L>Thou then may'&s;t be a man of good e&s;teeme,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 17. 6</NOTE> And my lo&s;t credit may'&s;t at la&s;t redeeme.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 3. 12</NOTE> Then thou may'&s;t be to me a helpe and &s;tay,</L>
<L>When I am old, and ready to decay:</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 22. 26.</NOTE> Thou then the Lord wilt prai&s;e,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 24</NOTE> and thank thy friends,</L>
<L>Endeavoring how thou may'&s;t make them amends.</L>
<L>Now though in pri&s;on I am here a while,</L>
<L>By rea&s;on of tho&s;e that did me beguile;</L>
<L>Yet &s;till my hope is, that I &s;hall one day</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 2. 17. 3 Joh. 14.</NOTE> See thee and all thy friends againe with joy.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. IX.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Scholler, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 179</NOTE> VVHen Schollers have the truants play'd their fill,</L>
<L>They mu&s;t be<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 10.</NOTE> whipp'd, though much again&s;t their wil.</L>
<L>The truant thou ha&s;t plaid, and eke<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 23. 35</NOTE> neglected</L>
<L>Thy Book to learne, for which thou art corrected.</L>
<L>This Pri&s;on is thy Schoole now for a time,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 4. 23. &amp; 12. 16.</NOTE> Chri&s;t thy Schoolema&s;ter is as well as mine.</L>
<L>Now &s;eeing thou unto this Schoole art brought,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 14.</NOTE> In practice put that which thou ha&s;t beene taught.</L>
<L>For Chri&s;t thy Ma&s;ter is with thee offended,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mat. 21. 20 Jer. 26. 13.</NOTE> Becau&s;e thy life thou ha&s;t not yet amended:</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Deut. 19. 19 Job 9. 28.</NOTE> And yet thou need'&s;t not be too much afraid,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 78. 40.</NOTE> Though thou the truant ha&s;t &s;o often plaid.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Deut. 6. 3.</NOTE> For if thou do&s;t endeavour to doe well,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 1. 20.</NOTE> And wilt no more again&s;t him &s;o rebell;</L>
<L><PB N="13" REF="14">
Then he to thee (I know) will be as milde,</L>
<L>As any<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 103. 13.</NOTE> Father can be to his Childe.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 103. 9.</NOTE> He will not alwaies angry be, nor chide</L>
<L>With tho&s;e that his corrections can abide.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Job 6. 2.</NOTE> Yet thou complain'&s;t, thy puni&s;hment is great,</L>
<L>And do&s;t with griefe the &s;ame oft-times repeat;</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 42. 5.</NOTE> And art di&s;quieted here in this Schoole;</L>
<L>Yet doe not thou with others play the foole.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2. 14.</NOTE> For thou &s;hould'&s;t rather teach, then learne of tho&s;e</L>
<L>Which have no breeding, though they weare good clothes.</L>
<L>Be thou the u&s;her of this Schoole, that &s;o</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 28. 9</NOTE> Thou may'&s;t teach others that which they don't know.</L>
<L>Here are poore Schollers, that are apt to learne</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 52. 3.</NOTE> Much ill: but goodne&s;&s;e they cannot di&s;cerne.</L>
<L>Thou may'&s;t ob&s;erve,<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 78. 32 33. 2 Chro. 28, 22.</NOTE> how &s;ome are &s;till addicted</L>
<L>To wickedne&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Gal. 3. 4. Hag. 2. 17.</NOTE> though they are here afflicted.</L>
<L>Some<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 19 &amp;</NOTE> give their mindes to drinke, others to<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">23. 9.</NOTE> &s;weare,</L>
<L>And &s;ome<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 4. 11.</NOTE> their whoring will not here forbeare.</L>
<L>Some doe delight at cards and dice to play;</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Pro. 21. 17</NOTE> And thus mo&s;t of them pa&s;&s;e their time away.</L>
<L>Con&s;ider this; In&s;truct them to be<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 5. 8. 1 The&s;. 5. 8.</NOTE> &s;ober,</L>
<L>That they may learne a new lea&s;e to turne over.</L>
<L>Omit no time,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 24 25, 26.</NOTE> good coun&s;ell now to give</L>
<L>Unto &s;uch as in ignorance here live:</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 15. 34.</NOTE> For &s;ome &s;o ignorant are, that they &s;carce know</L>
<L>So much, as little babes, the Chri&s;t-cro&s;&s;e-row.</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 7. 8.</NOTE> Lead thou a godly life, and vertuous be,</L>
<L>That they example may here take by thee.</L>
<L><NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">Acts 27. 36</NOTE> Cheer up thy heart, and be not now &s;o muddy,</L>
<L>Although thy bookes thou ha&s;t not here to &s;tudy.</L>
<L>It may be thou ha&s;t pawn'd, or &s;old away</L>
<L>Thy bookes to &s;uch<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 2.</NOTE> as &s;eldome read or pray:</L>
<L>Yet be not &s;till &s;o<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Gen. 40. 7.</NOTE> &s;ad as thou ha&s;t been,</L>
<L>Although tho&s;e bookes thou can&s;t not yet redeeme:</L>
<L>For if thou ha&s;t one booke among&s;t the re&s;t,</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 14<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> The Bible, which of all bookes is the be&s;t,</L>
<L><PB N="14" REF="15">
Thou ha&s;t enough, to &s;tudy thereupon,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 50.</NOTE> And need'&s;t no other book but that alone.</L>
<L>He that doth<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 12. 12.</NOTE> &s;tudy much (without all doubt)</L>
<L>In other bookes, will &s;oone be wearied out.</L>
<L>But he that in<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 1. 2.</NOTE> Gods word takes great delight,</L>
<L>And therein<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 6. 37.</NOTE> meditates both<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 97.</NOTE> day and<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">&amp; 55. Jo&s;h. 1. 8</NOTE> night;</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 1. 3.</NOTE> That man &s;hall flouri&s;h, and &s;ee happy dayes,</L>
<L>For God will pro&s;per him in all his wayes.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 34. 16</NOTE> God is the Author of that holy Booke,</L>
<L>And therefore thou therein may'&s;t boldly looke.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 16</NOTE> All holy Scripture's given by in&s;piration,</L>
<L>And therefore is in &s;uch great<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Job. 23, 12 P&s;al. 119. 127, 128.</NOTE> e&s;timation.</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Joh. 5. 39. Acts 17. 11.</NOTE> Search them alone, and thou therein &s;halt finde</L>
<L>Eternall life,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 63. 5. &amp; 36. 8.</NOTE> which &s;atisfies the minde.</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 99. 100.</NOTE> There wi&s;dome thou may&s;t learne, for thy &s;oules health:</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Pro. 8. 18. 19.</NOTE> The rich find there much joy,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 55. 1.</NOTE> the poore much wealth.</L>
<L>There's choi&s;e of &s;pirituall food;<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 103.</NOTE> feed on it then:</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3. 1, 2.</NOTE> There's milke for babes,<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">Heb. 5. 12 13, 14.</NOTE> and meat for &s;tronger men.</L>
<L>It's like a brooke, that's large and deep, wherein</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 19. 7.</NOTE> The lambe may wade,<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 40. 28</NOTE> and th'Elephant may &s;wim.</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 15</NOTE> All, that to our &s;alvation tends, is there</L>
<L>Penn'd down in holy writ; and not el&s;ewhere.</L>
<L>And yet Gods word is to the &s;tubborne Jewes</L>
<L>A<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 1. 23.</NOTE> &s;tumbling block; which makes them it refu&s;e:</L>
<L>And to the &s;elf-will'd Gentiles it's likewi&s;e</L>
<L>A<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 1. 23.</NOTE> fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e; therefore they it de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
<L>To &s;ay the truth,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat 22. 29</NOTE> this Book's not under&s;tood</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Joh. 3. 10</NOTE> By learned Schollers, that &s;eeme to be good.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Luk. 24. 45 Acts 8. 30, 31.</NOTE> There's none at all can under&s;tand this thing,</L>
<L>Untill God<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Acts 16. 34 P&s;al. 119. 34.</NOTE> open their under&s;tanding.</L>
<L>Now &s;tudy't with delight,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 25. 4, 5.</NOTE> call on Gods name,</L>
<L>So &s;halt thou rightly under&s;tand the &s;ame.</L>
<L>Then &s;halt thou be in a mo&s;t happy taking,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Job. 36, 22. P&s;al. 119. 102.</NOTE> When thou a Scholler art of Gods owne making.</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t thou art here,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 10. 14.</NOTE> learne &s;omething every day,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rom. 11. 25.</NOTE> And teach &s;uch as are quite out of the way.</L>
<L><PB N="15" REF="15">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 16. 7.</NOTE> Plea&s;e thy Schoole-ma&s;ter, and contented be;</L>
<L>So &s;halt thou breake up Schoole, and be &s;et free:</L>
<L>And afterwards<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4. 7, 1.</NOTE> thou having lived well,</L>
<L>Shalt with thy Ma&s;ter Chri&s;t for ever dwell</L>
<L>In heaven above,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 13. 12</NOTE> where thou &s;halt &s;ee and know</L>
<L>More then thou ever heard'&s;t of here below.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. X.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To an ancient man, a Pri&s;oner, exceedingly oppre&s;|&s;ed
with griefe, and &s;orrow upon &s;orrow.</HEAD>
<L>THy<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 12.</NOTE> &s;orrowes, old man, are &s;orrowes indeed,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88 7, 8</NOTE> Which &s;orrowes doe all others here exceed.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 42, 6.</NOTE> Thou art a man dejected in our fight,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 7. 3, 4.</NOTE> And carefull thoughts are with thee day and night.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 16. 8.</NOTE> Thy countenance &s;hewes how thy<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 17. 22. Ecclus. 13. 25.</NOTE> heart is griev'd,</L>
<L>And thy<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Sam. 12. 2</NOTE> gray haires &s;hew that thou ha&s;t long liv'd.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 23, 21.</NOTE> If thou thy youthfull dayes did&s;t not well &s;pend,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 2.</NOTE> Now thou art old, endeavour to amend:</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 16.</NOTE> And then although thy body doe decay,</L>
<L>Thy &s;pirit &s;hall revive and live for aye</L>
<L>In heaven with Chri&s;t, who<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Job 34. 28 Acts 7. 34.</NOTE> heares thy groanes and cryes;</L>
<L>Hee'll<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Rev. 7. 17.</NOTE> wipe away all thy teares from thine eyes.</L>
<L>If thou for debt art to this place committed,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 106. 46.</NOTE> Thy ca&s;e (if thou art poore) is to be pitti'd.</L>
<L>It was thy<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 7, 24.</NOTE> daughter, whom thou lov'&s;t full deare,</L>
<L>That was th'occa&s;ion of thy being here.</L>
<L>Thou did&s;t her place with one, that did her keep,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Pro. 27. 27.</NOTE> Where &s;he no want had of food, cloaths, nor &s;leep:</L>
<L>But therewithall &s;he was not well contented,</L>
<L>And therefore &s;he from thence<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Gen. 16. 6.</NOTE> her&s;elfe ab&s;ented;</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Pro, 1. 10.</NOTE> Being by wicked coun&s;ell much deluded,</L>
<L>So that in danger &s;he her &s;elfe intruded:</L>
<L><PB N="16" REF="16">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rom. 2. 21.</NOTE> And proving fal&s;e to him, with whom &s;he dwelt,</L>
<L>She then the mi&s;erie of a Pri&s;on felt:</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 6, 1, 2.</NOTE> And thou having for her truth thy word pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Arre&s;ted wa&s;t, and into pri&s;on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t:</L>
<L>When &s;he came &s;hortly after to be try'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 4. 15.</NOTE> She was found guilty; for which cau&s;e &s;he dy'd:</L>
<L>Then thy poore wife<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 10</NOTE> fell &s;ick, and dy'd for griefe,</L>
<L>Hearing her childe did &s;uffer as a theefe.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Jer. 45. 3.</NOTE> Thus was thy griefe and &s;orrow much increas'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 64. 12</NOTE> As with Gods children 'tis, when they thinke lea&s;t.</L>
<L>Be&s;ides all this, now in thy great di&s;tre&s;&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 6. 10.</NOTE> Thy friends doe not them&s;elves to thee addre&s;&s;e;</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 6. 12.</NOTE> But leave thee comfortle&s;&s;e here in this place,</L>
<L>To mu&s;e upon thy daughters great di&s;grace.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1. Sam. 3. 13</NOTE> If thou, like old <HI>Eli,</HI> did&s;t e're neglect</L>
<L>Thy children in their young dayes to correct;</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 3. 14.</NOTE> Then thou, like old <HI>Eli,</HI> for that cau&s;e art</L>
<L>Corrected now thy &s;elfe, and feel'&s;t the &s;mart.</L>
<L>If thou, like <HI>David,</HI> (when thy girle was young)</L>
<L>Was fond or'e her,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 18. 5.</NOTE> as he was o're his &s;onne;</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 19. 2.</NOTE> Then thou like <HI>David</HI> mu&s;t afflicted be,</L>
<L>(For being then &s;o fond) as well as he.</L>
<L>Like <HI>Eli</HI> be, when thou corrected art,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 3. 18</NOTE> Submit to God, and take it in good part.</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 19. 4.</NOTE> Like <HI>David</HI> be, who after he had cry'd</L>
<L>For his lo&s;t &s;onne,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 19. 8.</NOTE> was then well pacifi'd.</L>
<L>Now <HI>Davids</HI> &s;onne,<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 18. 14.</NOTE> by his untimely death</L>
<L>Dy'd in his &s;ins, and &s;o gave up his breath.</L>
<L>Thy daughter had a time before &s;he dy'de,</L>
<L>To call on God: her<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 32. 5.</NOTE> &s;ins &s;he did not hide.</L>
<L><NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">Luk. 23. 42, 43.</NOTE> Doubtle&s;&s;e the Lord heard her humble reque&s;t,</L>
<L>And that her &s;oule is now with him at re&s;t.</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 12. 20.</NOTE> Comfort thy &s;elfe in God now &s;he is gone,</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">v. 23.</NOTE> And thinke that thou mu&s;t follow her ere long:</L>
<L>Thy Adver&s;aries<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Job 36. 15.</NOTE> cannot long detaine thee</L>
<L>Here in this pri&s;on, where<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 79 4.</NOTE> they now di&s;daine thee.</L>
<L><PB N="17" REF="16">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Jer. 15. 11.</NOTE> When God his time &s;ees fit, hee'le thee relea&s;e:</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 12.</NOTE> Live therefore well,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 King. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 20.</NOTE> &s;o &s;halt thou dye in peace.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Eccles 12. 7</NOTE> Thy &s;oule &s;hall then a&s;cend to God on high,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Joh. 10. 28.</NOTE> And live with him in heaven eternally.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XI.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his elde&s;t Daughter.</HEAD>
<L>THere was a time, before thy time, in which</L>
<L>I was beloved of the<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 29. 12</NOTE> poore and<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 4. 20</NOTE> rich.</L>
<L>For in tho&s;e dayes<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Deut. 6. 11</NOTE> I had good things about me,</L>
<L>And many could not well &s;ub&s;i&s;t without me.</L>
<L>I then alone did live, wherefore I &s;ought,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Tob. 1. 9.</NOTE> And found her which into the world thee brought.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Tob. 4. 4.</NOTE> A burden thou wa&s;t to her a long while,</L>
<L>When &s;he thee carried then many a mile,</L>
<L>Into a Country which thou could'&s;t not &s;ee,</L>
<L>Where I had<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 24. 11</NOTE> Land, that caus'd my mi&s;ery.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Jer. 31. 8.</NOTE> And when from thence &s;he brought thee back againe,</L>
<L>After a while<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rev. 12. 2.</NOTE> thou put'&s;t her to great paine:</L>
<L>For thou &s;o heavy wa&s;t, and big al&s;o,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jer. 4. 31.</NOTE> That &s;he then could no longer with thee goe.</L>
<L>So weake was &s;he, that thou mad'&s;t her to fall,</L>
<L>So that for helpe<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 42. 14.</NOTE> &s;he did both cry and call.</L>
<L>And then betweene you both there was &s;uch &s;trife,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Gen. 35. 16</NOTE> That &s;he therewith had almo&s;t lo&s;t her life.</L>
<L>After which combat, though &s;he had the wor&s;t,</L>
<L>Yet &s;he thy be&s;t friend was,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 1. 23.</NOTE> for &s;he thee nur&s;t.</L>
<L>And though her paines were great, yet &s;hortly after</L>
<L>We both rejoyc'd in thee<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Gen. 30. 21</NOTE> our elder daughter.</L>
<L>I then in credit liv'd, and did enjoy</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Eccles 2. 1</NOTE> The plea&s;ures of this life, which &s;eem'd &s;o gay.</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Job 17. 11</NOTE> But now tho&s;e dayes are pa&s;t, my credit's lo&s;t,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Tob. 1. 20.</NOTE> My meanes are gone, and my de&s;ignes are cro&s;t.</L>
<L><PB N="18" REF="17">
Much trouble I of late have undergone,</L>
<L>And now at la&s;t<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Act. 12. 4.</NOTE> am in a pri&s;on &s;trong,</L>
<L>Depriv'd of that which heretofore I had,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 15. P&s;al. 88. 4.</NOTE> T'was never with me as 'tis now &s;o bad.</L>
<L>So that to &s;ay the truth, I may be here</L>
<L>Compar'd to the foure<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gen. 1. 14.</NOTE> Sea&s;ons of the yeare.</L>
<L>The joyfull<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;d. 2 7.</NOTE> Spring, the dainty<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mat. 24. 32.</NOTE> Summer fine,</L>
<L>The fruitfull<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Joel 3. 13</NOTE> Harve&s;t, and the<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Joh 10. 22</NOTE> Winter time.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Cant. 2. 12</NOTE> The Spring time of my youth<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Eccles 9 7.</NOTE> I liv'd in plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Then God gave thee to me, thou wa&s;t my trea&s;ure.</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 10.</NOTE> In tho&s;e dayes I knew not what troubles meant,</L>
<L>For then my Country-hou&s;e I had in Kent.</L>
<L>The Summer time<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Eccles 7. 0</NOTE> of my good dayes had I</L>
<L>Much trading and withall, my Girle <HI>Mary.</HI></L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 11 24.</NOTE> In tho&s;e dayes I got meanes, and lived well,</L>
<L>My credit then was good, my friends can tell.</L>
<L>I'th Harve&s;t time<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Pro. 13. 11</NOTE> I gather'd much, and than</L>
<L>I lo&s;t much, yet, God gave me my Girle <HI>Nan.</HI></L>
<L>In tho&s;e dayes<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Luk. 10. 41</NOTE> I much care had to uphold</L>
<L>My credit, which I valued more then gold.</L>
<L>The Winter &s;ea&s;on, when<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. 3.</NOTE> I had my fill</L>
<L>Of troubles, then God &s;ent me my &s;on <HI>Will.</HI></L>
<L>In tho&s;e dayes I was then, as now I am,</L>
<L>In great di&s;tre&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. 4.</NOTE> and counted a lo&s;t man.</L>
<L>Great lo&s;&s;es I &s;u&s;tain'd that &s;tormy time,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4. 12.</NOTE> Which makes me now to &s;uffer and repine.</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 47. 8.</NOTE> The lo&s;&s;e of (<HI>Nan</HI>) thy &s;i&s;ter, was then more</L>
<L>Grievous to me, then all I lo&s;t before.</L>
<L>A tedious Winter 'tis as I &s;uppo&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 13. 7.</NOTE> How long t'will la&s;t, the Lord above be&s;t knowes.</L>
<L>Thus in this world have I beene<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 109. 23</NOTE> to&s;s'd and tumbl'd,</L>
<L>Sometimes advanc'd aloft, and &s;ometimes humbl'd.</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Job 16. 12</NOTE> The day-light of my former dayes are done,</L>
<L>The dark-night of my latter dayes are come.</L>
<L>Yet &s;till I hope t'will not be &s;o with thee,</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 3. 10</NOTE> But that thy be&s;t dayes will hereafter be.</L>
<L><PB N="19" REF="17">
Although thy wor&s;t dayes be now for a &s;ea&s;on,</L>
<L>Yet doubtle&s;&s;e thou ha&s;t &s;o much wit and rea&s;on,</L>
<L>To thinke, if thou<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 2. 11.</NOTE> &s;erve God,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 24</NOTE> and thy friends plea&s;e,</L>
<L>That thou hereafter may'&s;t live more at ea&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 27. Pro. 29. 15.</NOTE> The more thou art in thy young dayes depre&s;t,</L>
<L>The more one day will be thy joy and re&s;t:</L>
<L>And if thou live to be a woman growne,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 13. 11. Pro. 31. 25.</NOTE> Thou wilt rejoyce that thou &s;o much ha&s;t knowne.</L>
<L>Thou now art with<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 6. 14</NOTE> thy friends, who love thee well,</L>
<L>Give them content, whil&s;t thou with them do&s;t dwell.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 15</NOTE> Give not thy &s;elfe at all to idlene&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ruth 3. 5.</NOTE> But be thou doing &s;omething, more or le&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>Be<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 22. 4.</NOTE> mode&s;t, loving, and of good behaviour,</L>
<L>So &s;halt thou be e&s;teem'd of, and in favour.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rom. 11. 22</NOTE> And if to goodne&s;&s;e thou do&s;t now incline,</L>
<L>Thou then art Gods deere childe, as well as mine:</L>
<L>Thou then two Fathers ha&s;t, be of good cheere;</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Luke 11. 2.</NOTE> The one's in heaven above,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Gen. 44. 10</NOTE> the other's here.</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 29</NOTE> Thy earthly father's poore, and weak withall,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;dr. 17. 65.</NOTE> Thy heavenly Father's rich, and liberall.</L>
<L>If thou want that which I have not to give thee;</L>
<L>Goe to<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 32.</NOTE> thy heavenly Father, hee'le releeve thee:</L>
<L>Make thy ca&s;e knowne to him, the<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Pro. 12. 19.</NOTE> truth declare,</L>
<L>And<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Pro. 12. 22 Ecclus 7. 13.</NOTE> tell no lyes, but thereof have a care:</L>
<L>For God will never grant &s;uch their de&s;ires;</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Joh. 8. 44.</NOTE> The Devill is the father of all lyers.</L>
<L>Now if thou learn'&s;t good manners every day,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 22. 4</NOTE> And carrie&s;t thy &s;elfe well, not being coy;</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 9. Titus 2. 12.</NOTE> If thou to godline&s;&s;e do&s;t give thy minde,</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Judith 8. 8.</NOTE> And wilt live vertuou&s;ly, then thou &s;halt finde,</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 30. 8.</NOTE> That though thou many things art now deny'd,</L>
<L>Yet &s;halt thou be hereafter &s;atisfi'd.</L>
<L>In the meane while<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> con&s;ider well the&s;e things,</L>
<L>That I may from thee heare &s;ome good tidings.</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Pro. 23. 15.</NOTE> It will rejoyce my heart, though I am here</L>
<L>In pri&s;on, where I want meanes to be cleere.</L>
<L><PB N="20" REF="18">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 3. 6</NOTE> Be thou my comfort now, and thou &s;halt &s;ee,</L>
<L>I'le be thy comforter, when I am free.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the domineering Creditor over a poore
Debtor of his in Pri&s;on.</HEAD>
<L>THou domineering man,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 28. 11. Rom. 12. 16.</NOTE> that art &s;o<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 11. 12</NOTE> wi&s;e</L>
<L>In thy conceit!<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 30</NOTE> why do&s;t thou &s;o de&s;pi&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jer. 38. 9.</NOTE> Thy Debtor, which at thy &s;uit here doth lye,</L>
<L>Where he for want of food in time may dye?</L>
<L>He hath good friends (&s;ay&s;t thou) that will not &s;ee</L>
<L>Him lye in Pri&s;on long, in mi&s;ery:</L>
<L>But rather will &s;ome order take to pay</L>
<L>His debts, that he no longer here may &s;tay.</L>
<L>Alas! thou art deceiv'd, t'will not appeare,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 6. 12</NOTE> That they'le doe any thing whil&s;t he is here.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 37. 4</NOTE> He rather fares the wor&s;e for them, &s;o that</L>
<L>He's like a Mou&s;e that's taken in a Trap.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 52. 1.</NOTE> Yet thou do&s;t boa&s;t and brag what thou ha&s;t done,</L>
<L>In laying up a poore man in pri&s;on.</L>
<L>What ha&s;t thou gotten now by doing &s;o?</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 109. 6</NOTE> Devill for thy friend, and<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 11. 5.</NOTE> God thy foe.</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Job 2. 7.</NOTE> The Devill takes delight in cruelty,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Jam. 2. 13.</NOTE> And God rejects him that &s;hewes no mercy:</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 11. 24.</NOTE> Yet thou thy &s;elfe, having the world at will,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 11. 25. Amos 1. 11</NOTE> Tak'&s;t no pitty on him that is &s;o ill.</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Pro. 21. 17.</NOTE> Thou tak'&s;t thy plea&s;ure,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 6. 7.</NOTE> he grieves at the heart;</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Job 34 19. Pro 22<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">. Mal. 2. 10</NOTE> Yet he's Gods creature, even as thou art.</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Luk. 18. 11.</NOTE> Yet thou beleev'&s;t thou art better then he,</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word">, 22 7.</NOTE> Becau&s;e thou ha&s;t him made &s;ubject to thee.</L>
<L>Yet when all comes to all, one day thou mu&s;t,</L>
<L>As well as he,<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Gen. 3. 19. Eccles 3. 20.</NOTE> be turned into du&s;t.</L>
<L><PB N="21" REF="18">
Then who &s;hall judge, which of you is the better,</L>
<L>Whether the Creditor, or the poore Debtor.</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 21. 26.</NOTE> Your bodies in the darke grave may be there</L>
<L>Alike unto the wormes without compare.</L>
<L>Your &s;oules may differ much,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Eccles. 12. 7.</NOTE> for they mu&s;t flie</L>
<L>Up to the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 50. 6.</NOTE> Judge (of heaven and<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">&amp; 94. 2.</NOTE> earth) on high:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 31, 32.</NOTE> Where that great Judge pronounce &s;hall to all men</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">v. 33.</NOTE> Both<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">v. 34.</NOTE> good and<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">v. 41.</NOTE> bad, their &s;entence ju&s;t; and then</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">John 5. 29.</NOTE> The &s;oule that hath done well, heav'n &s;hall enjoy;</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">John 5. 29.</NOTE> The &s;oule that hath done ill, God will de&s;troy.</L>
<L>Con&s;ider this,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Rom. 14. 10</NOTE> thou that do'&s;t domineere</L>
<L>O're thy poore debtor whom thou ha&s;t lodg'd here:</L>
<L>For thou thy &s;elfe<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Amos 5. 12.</NOTE> art mightily in debt</L>
<L>Unto the Lord, which thou &s;hould'&s;t not forget;</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 9.</NOTE> And if Chri&s;t will not for thee undertake,</L>
<L>Thy debts to pay,<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 43. 25.</NOTE> for his own mercie &s;ake;</L>
<L>Then thy poore &s;oule and body &s;hall at la&s;t</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 30</NOTE> Be into Hell (that fearefull pri&s;on) ca&s;t.</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 35. 20.</NOTE> If thou therefore would&s;t mercy now obtaine,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4. 32.</NOTE> Be thou to others mercifull againe.</L>
<L><NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">Job 30. 25</NOTE> Come to thy poore debtor that's in di&s;tre&s;&s;e;</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 105. 20.</NOTE> Give him his libertie, and &s;o expre&s;&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 3. 8.</NOTE> Thy love to him, that he hereafter may</L>
<L>Be able (with Gods helpe) his debts to pay.</L>
<L>Thus thou may'&s;t doe him good, and thy &s;elfe too;</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 16 Pro. 3. 28.</NOTE> Wherefore delay no time this good to doe;</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 14.</NOTE> Then doubtle&s;&s;e thy great Creditor will forgive</L>
<L>Thee all thy debts:<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 28 11.</NOTE> and thou with him &s;halt live.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the men, which are Pri&s;oners in the Hole.</HEAD>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 42. 22</NOTE> YOu that are Pris'ners in the Hole, doe not</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">a Cor. 4. 8.</NOTE> De&s;paire of helpe, although it be your lot</L>
<L><PB N="22" REF="19">
To be throng'd up together in a hole,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 8. 8.</NOTE> Where you each others mi&s;erie may condole.</L>
<L>Experience you have had of<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 107. 9.</NOTE> Gods goodne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Which he to you hath &s;hew'd<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ver. 10.</NOTE> in your di&s;tre&s;&s;e:</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 23. 4.</NOTE> The Lord your helpe and comfort will be &s;till,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 1. 19.</NOTE> If you obedient are unto his will.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jer. 15. 11.</NOTE> 'Tis God alone that moves mens hearts to pitty</L>
<L>Poore pri&s;'ners both in Country and in City.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 33</NOTE> Your Benefactors he makes liberall,</L>
<L>And therefore you<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 145. 18</NOTE> &s;hould daily on him call</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 115. 13.</NOTE> To ble&s;&s;e and &s;anctifie the meanes you have</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 26.</NOTE> To feed your bodies,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 23.</NOTE> and your &s;oules to &s;ave.</L>
<L>'Tis like in former time that &s;ome of you</L>
<L>Did not fare halfe &s;o well as now you doe:</L>
<L>And if againe you had your liberty,</L>
<L>It may be you &s;o well could not &s;upply</L>
<L>Your hungry bellies with &s;uch food, as now</L>
<L>Provided is, which none can di&s;allow.</L>
<L>Your bodies likewi&s;e need endure no cold,</L>
<L>For you have fire enough for young and old.</L>
<L>Many be&s;ides you are here in this place,</L>
<L>That think they are not in &s;o good a ca&s;e;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they often times in great want are</L>
<L>Of that (God knowes) which you &s;ometimes can &s;pare:</L>
<L>But if their chamber rent they cannot pay,</L>
<L>Then in your Hole they mu&s;t be put to &s;tay.</L>
<L>Con&s;ider al&s;o how<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10 3.</NOTE> your &s;oules are fed</L>
<L>With Gods Word,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Neh. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 8.</NOTE> which to you is daily read.</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 25</NOTE> God by his Word to you &s;peakes very plaine;</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Dan. 9. 25.</NOTE> And you by prayer &s;peake to him againe.</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4. 7.</NOTE> This exerci&s;e you have now twice a day,</L>
<L>Having occa&s;ion ju&s;t to &s;ing and pray.</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5. 13.</NOTE> If inward mirth you have, &s;ing heartily;</L>
<L>If outward cro&s;&s;es,<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;&s;. 5. 17.</NOTE> pray continually:</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 14. 15.</NOTE> If you tho&s;e godly P&s;almes of <HI>David</HI> &s;ing</L>
<L>Without true knowledge, or under&s;tanding,</L>
<L><PB N="23" REF="19">
Then you &s;ing like the Bird that doth rejoyce,</L>
<L>The Nightingall, that's nothing but a voyce.</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 14. 15.</NOTE> If you to God doe pray, and not regard</L>
<L>How you &s;peake to him,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">John 9. 31.</NOTE> then you are not heard:</L>
<L>Much like the Papi&s;ts you are, when they pray,</L>
<L>Who utter words, but know not what they &s;ay.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Jer. 6. 10.</NOTE> If you Gods word doe heare with no delight,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 20. 32.</NOTE> And live like Heathen people in our &s;ight;</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ezek 36. 19.</NOTE> You then like Heathen &s;hall be ca&s;t away,</L>
<L>The Lord will not your puni&s;hment delay.</L>
<L>There are among&s;t you, doubtle&s;&s;e, that have been</L>
<L>In drinke, and otherwi&s;e much over&s;een:</L>
<L>At Tavernes and Ale hou&s;es were your meetings,</L>
<L>Where you with others had your merry greetings:</L>
<L>And there, and at wor&s;t places you have &s;pent</L>
<L>Your time away in bea&s;tly merriment.</L>
<L>In &s;tead of <HI>Davids</HI> P&s;almes, you have &s;ung out</L>
<L>Your<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 69. 12.</NOTE> drunken &s;ongs, and &s;o kept revell rout:</L>
<L>In &s;tead of prayer, pratling you have us'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 36. 20.</NOTE> And Gods mo&s;t holy name have much abus'd:</L>
<L>The Fidlers you have heard with more delight</L>
<L>Then<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 140.</NOTE> Gods pure word, which is &s;o ju&s;t and right.</L>
<L>Thus mo&s;t of you have done when you were free,</L>
<L>But now i'th Hole &s;uch things you cannot &s;ee:</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 23. 27.</NOTE> From &s;uch lewd cour&s;es you are now re&s;train'd,</L>
<L>And to doe better things you are enjoyn'd.</L>
<L>Thus in your bondage<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Acts 6. 4.</NOTE> you exerci&s;e more</L>
<L>Your &s;elves in prayer, then you did before.</L>
<L>A happy bondage 'tis, you can't deny,</L>
<L>If you your &s;infull<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 5. Ecclus. 18. 30.</NOTE> lu&s;ts can mortifie:</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Rev. 2. 22.</NOTE> But if for all this you will not amend</L>
<L>Your lives; then you &s;hall finde, that in the end,</L>
<L>Although your bellies be with food &s;uppli'de,</L>
<L>Your backs may want cour&s;e raggs your skin to hide.</L>
<L>Your bones in time by lying hard, will ake,</L>
<L>Your fle&s;h the lice will not at all for&s;ake.</L>
<L><PB N="24" REF="20">
Untill you die; and then they'll turne you over</L>
<L>Unto the<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 17. 14.</NOTE> wormes, which then &s;hall be your mother:</L>
<L>And then the<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Mar. 9. 46.</NOTE> worme of Con&s;cience, which ne're dies,</L>
<L>Shall feed upon your &s;oules with wofull cries:</L>
<L>And though your bodies in the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">John 5. 28.</NOTE> graves remaine,</L>
<L>And turne to du&s;t,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Acts 24. 15</NOTE> yet they &s;hall ri&s;e againe</L>
<L>To judgement, at which time they mu&s;t needs dwell</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mat. 10. 28.</NOTE> With your poore &s;oules, in the darke hole of hell.</L>
<L>How &s;oone that day will be, you doe not know;</L>
<L>But when death comes, you to that place mu&s;t goe.</L>
<L>Your &s;tate is wretched now, 'twill then be wor&s;e,</L>
<L>For you &s;hall ever be under Gods cur&s;e.</L>
<L>Thus 'twill be with you, if your mindes are bent</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 13.</NOTE> To live and die in &s;inne, and not repent.</L>
<L>Wherefore<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Chro. 6. 37.</NOTE> bethinke your &s;elves what you have done,</L>
<L>And be reclaim'd, that you the<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 1.</NOTE> race may run</L>
<L>Of Chri&s;tians pure, who never cea&s;e to<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 24. Ho&s;. 14. 9.</NOTE> walke</L>
<L>The way to heaven,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 145. 11. &amp; 119. 46.</NOTE> of which they joy to talke.</L>
<L>That<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 9. 24</NOTE> race you may now run, and get the gole,</L>
<L>Though you are &s;tay'd, and &s;hut up in a hole.</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Pro. 3. 6.</NOTE> Gods word is your direction,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">John 8. 47.</NOTE> heare, and<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Luke. 22. 40</NOTE> pray</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 6.</NOTE> In faith; and then the hole will be the way.</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Acts 14. 22</NOTE> Through troubles and afflictions you &s;hall finde</L>
<L>The readi'&s;t way, if you are not &s;tarke blinde.</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t you therefore are here,<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2. 17.</NOTE> feare God, and<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 146. 7.</NOTE> feed</L>
<L>Your bodies,<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 3, 4.</NOTE> and your &s;oules, that have &s;uch need.</L>
<L>Yet be not like the Fox, or like his brood,</L>
<L>Which loves his hole, if he there can have food.</L>
<L>But rather u&s;e good meanes to get out hence,</L>
<L>That you may have &s;uch food without offence,</L>
<L>Abroad in other places, being free,</L>
<L>Which to good minds doth be&s;t of all agree.</L>
<L>Then doubtle&s;&s;e God in his due time will &s;end</L>
<L>You libertie, and<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1. 4.</NOTE> comfort in the end.</L>
<L>And if the Steward of your hole be ju&s;t,</L>
<L>Your Reader cha&s;te, not given to his lu&s;t;</L>
<L><PB N="25" REF="20">
Your Cooke a cleanly fellow in his place;</L>
<L>Your Con&s;table well order'd, and not ba&s;e;</L>
<L>And you that are inferiour to all the&s;e,</L>
<L>That are &s;o full of Lice and biting Fleas;</L>
<L>That have no beds to lye on, but mu&s;t needs</L>
<L>Lye in your cloathes, where all your vermine breeds;</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1. 15.</NOTE> If you together in good &s;ort doe live,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Joh. 14. 14.</NOTE> The Lord will change your lodging, and &s;oone give</L>
<L>You &s;uch a place to dwell in, as &s;hall be</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. 16.</NOTE> The place where you for ever &s;hall be free.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XIV.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his younge&s;t Daughter.</HEAD>
<L>WHen thou into this wretched world<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;d. 7. 3.</NOTE> cam'&s;t crying,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 91. 7</NOTE> Ten thou&s;and round about thee lay a dying.</L>
<L>Many which in the morning had their breath,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 20. 24.</NOTE> Before night were depriv'd thereof by death.</L>
<L>Death in tho&s;e dayes with his &s;harp poy&s;on'd Dart,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 24 25.</NOTE> Smote thou&s;ands weekly through the very heart;</L>
<L>And led them captives to their graves, where they</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">John 5. 28.</NOTE> Mu&s;t needs remaine untill the Lords great Day.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 31. 14 Rom. 5. 12.</NOTE> This domineering Death took rich and poore,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r. 9. 21. P&s;. 107. 18.</NOTE> And &s;ome that liv'd with me were at his doore.</L>
<L>He at that dolefull time was fierce and bold,</L>
<L>And made more havock of the young then old.</L>
<L>Great was his priviledge then in the City,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Eccles 2. 16</NOTE> For fooles and wi&s;emen he tooke without pitie.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 78. 50</NOTE> He then &s;par'd none at all that were in's reach,</L>
<L>But did among&s;t all callings make a breach.</L>
<L>The Belfrees he caus'd to be full of people,</L>
<L>Who made the Bells to ring in every Steeple.</L>
<L>A dolefull &s;ound there was,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eze. 32. 22.</NOTE> then graves were plenty,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">2 King. 21. 13. Lam 1. 1.</NOTE> Which made the &s;treets of <HI>London</HI> to be empty.</L>
<L><PB N="26" REF="21">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 27. 34.</NOTE> And then mo&s;t trades did faile, I knew but one</L>
<L>That flouri&s;h'd, which were wooden Cookes alone.</L>
<L>Their wooden cru&s;t Death furni&s;h'd with great &s;tore</L>
<L>Of fle&s;h,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Gen. 23. 4.</NOTE> which living people did abhor:</L>
<L>And therefore they convey'd were under ground,</L>
<L>For<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 10. 11.</NOTE> wormes to feed on, which did then abound.</L>
<L>The pye-cru&s;t which was fram'd and made of wood,</L>
<L>They did di&s;like, yet<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 24. 20</NOTE> th'in&s;ide they found good.</L>
<L>Death was their friend, he daily did provide</L>
<L>Such food, and yet they were not &s;atisfi'd.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 91. 3&punc;</NOTE> Thou then Deaths hands e&s;cap'd&s;t, as well as I,</L>
<L>Yet when he comes we cannot from him flye.</L>
<L>My Country hou&s;e in tho&s;e infectious dayes</L>
<L>I had, where grew much Ro&s;emary and Bayes,</L>
<L>I'th towne of Batter&s;ey, where thou did&s;t make</L>
<L>Thy mothers belly, &s;ides and back to ake,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Gen. 25. 22</NOTE> With &s;truggling over much with her to be</L>
<L>Di&s;charg'd out of that place where &s;he kept thee</L>
<L>As long as e're &s;he could, yet at the la&s;t</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1 King. 3. 17.</NOTE> She let thee goe, becau&s;e thou wa&s;t in ha&s;te,</L>
<L>Now when thou cam'&s;t into the world &s;tarke naked,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 12. 18. 24. P&s;al. 139. 15.</NOTE> Having thy limbes and members all well &s;haped,</L>
<L>Yet thou a name did'&s;t want,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 4. 21.</NOTE> which tho&s;e did give</L>
<L>Unto thee then, with whom thou now do&s;t live:</L>
<L>Thy Godfather and Godmother are they</L>
<L>Which thy name gave thee; and the &s;elfe &s;ame day</L>
<L>By promi&s;e they engag'd them&s;elves for thee,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4. 27.</NOTE> That thou from Satan and his workes &s;hould'&s;t flee,</L>
<L>And likewi&s;e &s;hould'&s;t ab&s;taine<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 12. 21.</NOTE> from vaine delights,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Gal. 5. 17</NOTE> And &s;infull lu&s;ts, which gain&s;t the &s;pirit it fights:</L>
<L>And that thou &s;hould'&s;t<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Rom. 10. 9</NOTE> beleeve all in thy Creed,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 34</NOTE> Keeping Gods holy Lawes, and &s;o proceed</L>
<L>To<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119 1.</NOTE> walke therein all the dayes of thy life,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 6.</NOTE> That thou in peace may&s;t live, and not in &s;trife.</L>
<L>All the&s;e things they have promi&s;ed for thee,</L>
<L>Which thou ought'&s;t to performe, then they are free.</L>
<L><PB N="27" REF="21">
They are thy &s;ureties, till th' art of age,</L>
<L>And then thy &s;ureties thou &s;hould'&s;t di&s;engage.</L>
<L>When they that charge fir&s;t tooke of thee, I then</L>
<L>In credit liv'd among all &s;orts of men.</L>
<L>I in that &s;ickly time was forc'd to walke</L>
<L>The City &s;treets,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 16. 7.</NOTE> yet with few men did talke.</L>
<L>For then was I to them much like a &s;tranger,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 2. 4.</NOTE> Becau&s;e my life I would not then endanger.</L>
<L>But afterwards when lo&s;&s;es came upon me,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Job 2. 11.</NOTE> In my fir&s;t troubles, &s;ome friends did bemone me.</L>
<L>And when by many men I was undone,</L>
<L>I walk'd the &s;treets, yet was I faine to &s;hun</L>
<L>The company of many, which to me</L>
<L>Seem'd Officers,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 3. 25.</NOTE> &s;o that I fear'd to be</L>
<L>In danger of that, which I now at la&s;t</L>
<L>Am brought unto,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. 8.</NOTE> where I am lock'd up fa&s;t</L>
<L>In a poore pri&s;on, where are good and bad,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Job 29. 2 &amp; 30. 16.</NOTE> And where I want that which before I had.</L>
<L>Yet if thy minde thou now giv'&s;t<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 3. 6.</NOTE> to doe well,</L>
<L>Then comfort I &s;hall have, though here I dwell.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 34. 12</NOTE> Feare God above, and thy<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">&amp; Eph. 6. 1 &amp;c.</NOTE> parents obey,</L>
<L>So &s;halt thou<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eph. 6. 3.</NOTE> live many a happy day.</L>
<L>Thy Godfather and thy Godmother love;</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 22. 5</NOTE> Be thou not wilde,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 7. 11.</NOTE> but gentle as a Dove.</L>
<L>Be rul'd by them,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 6. 16. 17.</NOTE> for they thy be&s;t friends are,</L>
<L>They love thee well, that art from me &s;o farre.</L>
<L>Thou art their Godchilde,<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4. 9.</NOTE> learne of them, and know</L>
<L>Some goodne&s;&s;e now,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Col. 1. 10.</NOTE> and therein daily grow.</L>
<L>Such Godfathers and Godmothers as tho&s;e</L>
<L>Are much to be re&s;pected (I &s;uppo&s;e:)</L>
<L>There are not many &s;uch now to be found,</L>
<L>Whom thou enjoy'&s;t, though I am in Lobs pound.</L>
<L>Wherefore whil'&s;t thou art with them lo&s;e no time,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Eccles 9. 8.</NOTE> Be cleanly, and doe not thy &s;elfe begrime.</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4. 13.</NOTE> Reade thy Booke often,<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Judg. 5. 30.</NOTE> let thy Needle be</L>
<L>Alwayes in u&s;e, and a delight to thee.</L>
<PB N="26" REF="22">
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<L><PB N="28" REF="23">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 20. 11.</NOTE> Doe willingly &s;uch things thou go'&s;t about,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 4. 24.</NOTE> Be not at all dogged, frowne not, nor pout.</L>
<L>But let thy carriage be now, and alwayes,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Judeth 8. 8.</NOTE> Such as hereafter may get thee the prai&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Phil. 1. 27. Tob. 10. 12.</NOTE> If I could now from thee &s;uch good newes heare,</L>
<L>It would revive me more then Wine or Beere:</L>
<L>For though<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Gen. 40. 23</NOTE> I am neglected in this place,</L>
<L>If thou doe well, I &s;hall be in good ca&s;e:</L>
<L>My minde will be at ea&s;e I make no doubt,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jer. 38. 7. &amp;c.</NOTE> And &s;ome good friend at length will get me out:</L>
<L>And when my liberty I &s;hall obtaine,</L>
<L>I hope to<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 1. 4</NOTE> &s;ee thee with much joy againe.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XV.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Prodigall young man, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>THou<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 29. 3.</NOTE> that a &s;pend-thri&s;t art, clap'd up for debt</L>
<L>In Pri&s;on&punc; where no goodne&s;&s;e thou can&s;t get!</L>
<L>Thou &s;ee'&s;t here are<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 13. 15.</NOTE> companions to thy minde,</L>
<L>Which are like thee to vaine<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 21. 17.</NOTE> plea&s;ures inclin'd.</L>
<L>Though thou now art a pris'ner here depriv'd</L>
<L>Of liberty&punc; yet being here arriv'd,</L>
<L>Thou tak'&s;t thy liberty<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 5. 11.</NOTE> to drinke<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Levit. 19. 12</NOTE> and &s;weare,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 23. 9.</NOTE> Which wicked cu&s;tome thou &s;hould'&s;t here forbeare:</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 73. 9.</NOTE> For this a place is of di&s;con&s;olation,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Levit. 26. 23. 24.</NOTE> Which ought to worke in thee a reformation.</L>
<L>And if this place will not at all thee tame,</L>
<L>Then mu&s;t I needs conclude,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Zeph. 3. 5.</NOTE> thou art pa&s;t &s;hame&punc;</L>
<L>Though thou ha&s;t money to &s;wagger and roare,</L>
<L>When that is &s;pent, how think'&s;t thou to get more?</L>
<L>Thy friends and parents, by whom thou had'&s;t meanes,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Luk. 15. 39</NOTE> Which thou ha&s;t &s;pent among&s;t ba&s;e knaves and queans,</L>
<L>Will now leave thee unto thy &s;elfe to &s;hift,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Luk. 15. 14.</NOTE> Becau&s;e thou ha&s;t beene &s;uch a wilde unthrift.</L>
<L><PB N="29" REF="23">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Acts 17. 5.</NOTE> Thy lewd companions now will for&s;ake thee</L>
<L>Although they were the onely lads that brake thee.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 18. 31.</NOTE> Thy wenches, with whom thou did&s;t take delight,</L>
<L>Will &s;corne thee now, and not come in thy &s;ight.</L>
<L>The truth is, whether thou be rich or poore,</L>
<L>A Beare is fitter for thee than a whore.</L>
<L>Thy credit in this place will &s;oone be lo&s;t,</L>
<L>Though thou ha&s;t been here long to thy great co&s;t.</L>
<L>If thou the Tap&s;ter &s;hould&s;t owe but a groat,</L>
<L>He would goe neere to pluck't out of thy throat:</L>
<L>Though thou &s;hould'&s;t &s;pend here forty pound a yeere,</L>
<L>Yet hee'll &s;carce tru&s;t thee for a pot of beere.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 13. 25</NOTE> Though thou in want &s;hould'&s;t make to him thy mone</L>
<L>For bread, drinke, or tobacco,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Luk. 15. 16</NOTE> he hath none</L>
<L>For &s;uch as have no money; and therefore</L>
<L>Hee'll bid thee get thee gone, for hee'll not &s;core.</L>
<L>Now when thou art<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 23. 21</NOTE> brought to &s;o much di&s;grace,</L>
<L>The Hole 'tis like will be thy dwelling place.</L>
<L>Many a wor&s;e lodging thou ha&s;t had, when</L>
<L>With harlots thou did&s;t lodge, thou know'&s;t, for then</L>
<L>'Twas wor&s;e with thee,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 9. 13.</NOTE> thou then wa&s;t in great danger</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2. 26.</NOTE> To be en&s;nar'd by Satan, that great ranger:</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Pro. 7. 22, 23.</NOTE> For thou then wa&s;t plung'd over head and eares</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">2 mi T 2. 22.</NOTE> In &s;in, which thou &s;hould'&s;t here bewaile with teares.</L>
<L>Thy ca&s;e was de&s;perate then, and now is like</L>
<L>To be wor&s;e, if<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Acts 26. 18</NOTE> God give thee not a &s;ight</L>
<L>Of thy great &s;innes, the which thou ha&s;t committed</L>
<L>Again&s;t him,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Micah 6. 13.</NOTE> for which thou art here afflicted.</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">E&s;d. 3. 20.</NOTE> And though much &s;orrows thou ha&s;t, doe not thinke</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Pro. 20. 1.</NOTE> To mitigate thy &s;orrowes by much drinke:</L>
<L>For if that cour&s;e thou tak'&s;t, thou may'&s;t be &s;ure</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">E&s;d. 3. 23.</NOTE> Thy &s;orrowes will increa&s;e, and long endure:</L>
<L>Such &s;eeming remedies have &s;ome undone;</L>
<L>Wherefore be thou like the prodigall &s;onne,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Luk. 15. 14</NOTE> Who when his &s;ub&s;tance he had vainely &s;pent,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Luk. 15. 15 16.</NOTE> Being in extreame want,<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">18, 19.</NOTE> did then repent,</L>
<L><PB N="30" REF="24">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">v. 18.</NOTE> Confe&s;&s;ing all his faults, and then re&s;olv'd</L>
<L>To goe to his Father to be ab&s;olv'd;</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">v. 20.</NOTE> His father, when he &s;aw him in that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;e,</L>
<L>Tooke pitty on him, and did him embrace:</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 103. 9.</NOTE> He did not with him chide, although he were</L>
<L>A naughty childe, &s;uch was his love and care,</L>
<L>And joy withall, when he his<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Luk. 15. 32</NOTE> lo&s;t &s;onne &s;aw</L>
<L>Return'd, and found obedient to his law;</L>
<L>Then he receiv'd him, and him entertain'd,</L>
<L>Although before<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Luk. 15. 15</NOTE> he was &s;o much di&s;dain'd:</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">v. 22.</NOTE> He cloath'd him bravely then from top to toe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">v. 23.</NOTE> And fea&s;ted him mo&s;t &s;umptuou&s;ly al&s;o:</L>
<L>Be&s;ides all that, this loving father had</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">v. 25.</NOTE> Mu&s;ick and dancing, to make his heart glad.</L>
<L>Now if this Prodigall thou wilt re&s;emble,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 120 E&s;ay 66. 2. Heb. 10. 27.</NOTE> And at Gods fearfull judgements quake and tremble:</L>
<L>If thou thy wicked wayes wilt leave, and<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 14. 2.</NOTE> turne</L>
<L>Unto thy heavenly father, and &s;o &s;purne</L>
<L>At thy<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 115.</NOTE> companions,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Pro. 1. 10.</NOTE> that would thee entice</L>
<L>To leave all goodne&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 2.</NOTE> and to follow vice.</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 40. 1.</NOTE> If thou with patience can&s;t a while abide</L>
<L>This cha&s;ti&s;ement,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Job 9. 34.</NOTE> and not be terrifi'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 67.</NOTE> But thereby brought to goodne&s;&s;e, and &s;o love</L>
<L>Thy Father,<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 113. 5.</NOTE> who&s;e dwelling's in heaven above;</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 37.</NOTE> Thou then all &s;infull plea&s;ures wilt dete&s;t,</L>
<L>And<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 63. 1.</NOTE> long to be with him in heav'n at re&s;t:</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1. 4.</NOTE> A portion there hee'll give thee to content,</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Heb. 10. 34</NOTE> Of &s;uch good things as never &s;hall be &s;pent:</L>
<L>Nay furthermore, hee'll likewi&s;e give to thee</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 5. 4.</NOTE> A Crown of glory, and there thou &s;halt be</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 17.</NOTE> Co-heire with his &s;onne Chri&s;t,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mark 3. 35</NOTE> thy elder Brother,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Rev. 19 7. 14.</NOTE> With the triumphant Church<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Cant. 4. 9.</NOTE> his Spou&s;e, thy mother.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 22 23.</NOTE> Angels and Saints &s;hall be thy company</L>
<L>(In that mo&s;t glorious place) continually.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Phil. 3. 19&punc; 20, 21. P&s;al. 137. 6.</NOTE> All earthly plea&s;ures, and the chiefe&s;t joyes</L>
<L>Are to tho&s;e heavenly plea&s;ures but meere toyes.</L>
<L><PB N="31" REF="24">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 15. 48.</NOTE> Thinke on tho&s;e heavenly things, and let thy<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 21.</NOTE> heart</L>
<L>Be there, although in this place now thou art.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 92 Ho&s;. 5. 15.</NOTE> Thou then &s;halt finde, that this affliction &s;hall</L>
<L>The be&s;t thing prove, as ere did thee befall:</L>
<L>For God hereby hath brought thee in the way</L>
<L>To heav'n: wherefore<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 14</NOTE> thou &s;halt not long here &s;tay.</L>
<L>Thou art &s;till going, though thou &s;tirre not hence;</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 32. &amp;</NOTE> Keep on thy way,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">62. 6. Job 22. 25.</NOTE> God will be thy defence:</L>
<L>And though in pri&s;on thou art now &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L>Hee'll bring thee &s;afely<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1. 4.</NOTE> to that place at la&s;t.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XVI.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Pri&s;oners called by the name of Rats, which
are debauched men, taken at unlawfull houres
in the night by the Watch, and brought
into Pri&s;on.</HEAD>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Eph. 2. 2.</NOTE> YOu that the Black Prince are forc'd to obey,</L>
<L>(I meane the<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Eph. 6. 12.</NOTE> Prince of darkne&s;&s;e) night and day:</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 33</NOTE> The end of your obedience is damnation,</L>
<L>Which &s;hall begin in his<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 30 Jude 6.</NOTE> darke habitation.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5. 3.</NOTE> How &s;oon you know not, too &s;oone you &s;hall know</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Dan. 12. 2. Jam. 5. 1.</NOTE> To your eternall &s;hame, mi&s;erie and woe.</L>
<L>The places you tick out<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 56. 12.</NOTE> to drinke and rore,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rev. 18. 2.</NOTE> Are doubtle&s;&s;e the Suburbes of hell; therefore</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;d. 2 9.</NOTE> You rather chu&s;e to be there then el&s;ewhere</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 4. Pro. 23. 27.</NOTE> With your ba&s;e whores, with whom you drink &amp; &s;wear.</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Judg. 19. 25</NOTE> The longe&s;t night i'th yeare you thinke too &s;hort</L>
<L>To &s;pend like wicked wretches in that &s;ort.</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">John 3. 19.</NOTE> Seeing therefore the night you love &s;o well</L>
<L>You &s;hall have night enough, being in hell:</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Jude 13.</NOTE> For there the night &s;hall never have an end,</L>
<L>Which loath&s;ome night you &s;hall be forc'd to &s;pend</L>
<L><PB N="32" REF="25">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 41</NOTE> With Devils, and with all their damned crew,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Luk. 16. 26</NOTE> From which place none &s;hall ever you re&s;cue;</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;. 16. 15. Nahum 1. 3.</NOTE> You by no meanes tho&s;e judgements can e&s;cape,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">E&s;a 5. 14.</NOTE> hell for &s;uch wicked men doth gape.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 5. 8.</NOTE> The devill, he's alwayes ready to take</L>
<L>Your &s;oules away, if you doe not for&s;ake</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Gen. 18. 20</NOTE> Your grievous &s;innes, which to the Lord on high</L>
<L>For vengeance daily doe both call and cry.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 50. 22.</NOTE> You little thinke on this, it doth appeare;</L>
<L>For if you did, you would not now be here.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">John 20. 26, 27.</NOTE> But you tho&s;e &s;ecret places doe frequent,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Joh. 21. 13.</NOTE> Where you your time have oftentimes mi&s;-&s;pent:</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4. 19.</NOTE> In drinking, dicing, whoring, and &s;uch like</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 11. 9</NOTE> You take your plea&s;ure, and in the darke night</L>
<L>You<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 55. 10.</NOTE> walke the &s;treets, where Watchmen then, like Cats,</L>
<L>Seize on you, as you are, like drunken Rats;</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 59. 6.</NOTE> And hither they you bring, where you are mad</L>
<L>Untill the<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Joh. 24. 17</NOTE> morning, and then you grow &s;ad,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e th'officious Con&s;table &s;o witty,</L>
<L>That's never out of office in this Citty,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Pro 7. 7, 8.</NOTE> Who finding you di&s;guis'd and voyd of wit,</L>
<L>Could doe no le&s;&s;e but &s;peedily commit</L>
<L>You to this Pri&s;on, from whence you mu&s;t goe</L>
<L>Along with him, like &s;odden &s;heep; and &s;o</L>
<L>You bring before the next Ju&s;tice of Peace,</L>
<L>Who will out of this Pri&s;on you relea&s;e,</L>
<L>When you have payd for &s;wearing, and likewi&s;e</L>
<L>Your fees di&s;charg'd, then you will &s;oone advi&s;e</L>
<L>What place to goe to, where you may relate</L>
<L>To your companions, at what a cheap rate</L>
<L>You have e&s;cap'd the puni&s;hment then due</L>
<L>For your foule mi&s;demeanors, which is true:</L>
<L>And then your wicked crew, when they heare this,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 5. 4.</NOTE> They'll doe the like, and thinke it not ami&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>For they thinke, if they money have to pay,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 9.</NOTE> They may commit &s;uch follies every day.</L>
<L><PB N="33" REF="25">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 7. 56.</NOTE> Not knowing what vengeance hangs o're their heads,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Judith 13. 2. 8. 15.</NOTE> Whil&s;t they lye &s;leeping in their drinke on beds.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Hab. 1. 4. Eccles 8. 11.</NOTE> Thinke not though earthly Judges doe forbeare</L>
<L>To puni&s;h vicious fellowes as you are,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jude 15. Ecclus 41. 8.</NOTE> That God will &s;pare to execute his ju&s;t</L>
<L>And &s;evere judgement on you for your lu&s;t.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 5. 21. Ecclus 17. 19. 20.</NOTE> He notice takes of all your wayes, therefore</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 17. 25. &amp; 35. 3.</NOTE> Your &s;infull wicked cour&s;es now abhorre:</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 14. 4. Jer. 3. 12. 2 Pet. 3. 9.</NOTE> His anger then from you hee'le turne away,</L>
<L>So that you &s;hall ne're peri&s;h nor decay.</L>
<L>Goe then from hence,<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2. 22. 1 Pet. 2. 11.</NOTE> ab&s;taine from vaine delights,</L>
<L>For&s;ake all &s;uch<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Job 17. 12.</NOTE> as turne dayes into nights.</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 10<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 2</NOTE> Behave your &s;elves like men that live in fame,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Jude 10.</NOTE> And not like to bruit bea&s;ts,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Zeph. 3. 5.</NOTE> that have no &s;hame.</L>
<L>'Tis knowne that you have got by being here</L>
<L>The title of ba&s;e Rats, at which men jeere;</L>
<L>And not unfitly are &s;uch names impos'd</L>
<L>On you, that are within this place inclos'd:</L>
<L>For you like Rats, in the darke &s;ilent night,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Jer. 6. 5.</NOTE> More mi&s;chiefe doe, then in the day that's bright.</L>
<L>If Rats finde food, they I feed on't all night long,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5. 7</NOTE> At which time you drinke mo&s;t, be't ne're &s;o &s;trong.</L>
<L>I'th night Rats are more trouble&s;ome then i'th day:</L>
<L>And &s;o are you,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Job 36. 12 Jude v. 8.</NOTE> that will no lawes obey.</L>
<L>Rats in the night, when they thinke lea&s;t, are taken,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 8. 15.</NOTE> And &s;o are you; you are not then for&s;aken.</L>
<L>Rats of them&s;elves goe freely in the Trap;</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Job 18. 10</NOTE> But you to this Trap are brought, 'tis your hap.</L>
<L>The greate&s;t difference I find between you,</L>
<L>Is, that they have foure legs, and you but two.</L>
<L>I wi&s;h your fellow Rats which us annoy,</L>
<L>Would goe with you when you hence goe away.</L>
<L>I wi&s;h when you from hence are gone, you would</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Pro. 26. 11.</NOTE> Never more be (as you are now) befool'd.</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 19. 2. 3.</NOTE> Drinke (and Tobacco) taken in exce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 19. 2. 1 E&s;dr. 3. 22.</NOTE> Make wi&s;e men fooles,<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 107. 17</NOTE> and fooles come to di&s;tre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><PB N="34" REF="26">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 19. 23.</NOTE> Tho&s;e that delight in harlots &s;hall at length</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 23. 16.</NOTE> Be full of foule di&s;ea&s;es, and want<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 31. 3.</NOTE> &s;trength.</L>
<L>The rich man that's a game&s;ter, let him know,</L>
<L>Whether he win or lo&s;e, hee'le be brought low,</L>
<L>The wretched &s;wearer, that may &s;weare his fill,</L>
<L>If he can pay for oathes, the Judge then will</L>
<L>Let him goe free, yet he's the Devils &s;lave,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 5. 3.</NOTE> The cur&s;e of God will follo him to his grave.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 4. 2.</NOTE> You that to the&s;e vices are now addicted,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 4. 3.</NOTE> Shall for the &s;ame be one day much afflicted;</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 5. 6.</NOTE> If you your wicked lives doe not amend,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Heb. 10. 31 Pro. 19. 29.</NOTE> Gods judgements &s;hall o'retake you in the end,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 1. 5.</NOTE> Which judgements you by no meanes can prevent,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Acts 8. 22.</NOTE> Unle&s;&s;e the Lord give you grace to repent,</L>
<L>Which he will doe,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Jam. 3. 17.</NOTE> if you can him intreat,</L>
<L>And<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 1. 18. Jer. 26. 13.</NOTE> pardon all your &s;ins, though ne're &s;o great.</L>
<L>Oh, what a happy thing will it be then,</L>
<L>When you all vice give o're,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Gal. 6. 15. Eph. 4. 24.</NOTE> and bee new men!</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4. 8.</NOTE> You'le then bethinke your &s;elves of better things,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 18. 44</NOTE> And yeeld obedience to the<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6. 15</NOTE> King of Kings.</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Joh. 12. 26.</NOTE> Your &s;ervice hee'le reward here and above,</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Mat. 22. 37. Tob. 13. 14.</NOTE> Wherefore above all things doe you him love:</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 2. 15. 16. P&s;al. 119 104.</NOTE> And then all vice and wickedne&s;&s;e you'le hate,</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 128. 1.</NOTE> So that you'le be in a mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed &s;tate.</L>
<L>Then<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Jam. 4. 7.</NOTE> &s;hall the Devill away from you flye,</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Rom. 14. 8.</NOTE> And you in Gods favour &s;hall live and dye.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XVII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Carrier, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>THou that a Carrier art, I mu&s;t thee tell,</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t not carried thy &s;elfe very well:</L>
<L>For if thou had'&s;t, it might be well &s;uppos'd,</L>
<L>Thou had'&s;t not at this time beene here inclos'd.</L>
<L><PB N="35" REF="26">
Doubtle&s;&s;e thou wa&s;t very much over&s;eene,</L>
<L>To take up this ba&s;e pri&s;on for thine Inne.</L>
<L>But &s;eeing now thy ne&s;t thou ha&s;t here built,</L>
<L>Think not thou can&s;t depart hence when thou wilt:</L>
<L>For now thou art here, here thou &s;halt be &s;tay'd,</L>
<L>Untill thy reckoning to a Doit be payd:</L>
<L>And what thy Chamberlaine doth &s;ay is due,</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t needs pay, be't ne're &s;o fal&s;e or true:</L>
<L>When thou call'&s;t to thine Ho&s;t out of the grate</L>
<L>For food, hee'le &s;end it thee at his owne rate.</L>
<L>Yet if thou pay not for it beforehand,</L>
<L>For all thy calling hee'le not under&s;tand.</L>
<L>I'le undertake thou &s;halt be here &s;o yoak'd,</L>
<L>That the proud Tap&s;ter will fir&s;t &s;ee thee choak'd</L>
<L>Before hee'le tru&s;t thee for a little drinke,</L>
<L>Though thou intreat him, yet hee'le from thee &s;linke.</L>
<L>Coar&s;e entertainment thou &s;halt finde and &s;ee,</L>
<L>The longer thou art here, the wor&s;e t'will be;</L>
<L>So well t'will like thee, that I dare maintaine,</L>
<L>When thou art gone thou'lt ne're come here againe.</L>
<L>Yet let me tell thee one thing by the way,</L>
<L>If thou &s;hould'&s;t be di&s;order'd every day</L>
<L>In drink or otherwi&s;e, with knaves or whores,</L>
<L>Yet will not thine ho&s;t turne thee out of doores:</L>
<L>Nay though thy carriage &s;hould be ne're &s;o ba&s;e,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt be kept &s;afe in this lawle&s;&s;e place.</L>
<L>Wherefore di&s;charge thy reckoning and be trudging;</L>
<L>Doe not delay the time to change thy lodging.</L>
<L>But how cam'&s;t thou behind hand, can&s;t thou tell,</L>
<L>That thou &s;hould'&s;t be con&s;train'd here now to dwell?</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t needs &s;ay, that<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 23. 21.</NOTE> thy ill husbandry</L>
<L>Hath brought thee to this great calamity.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Exod. 9. 21</NOTE> Thou ha&s;t beene carele&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 15.</NOTE> and too credulous,</L>
<L>And therefore it mu&s;t needs be with thee thus.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">6 25&punc;</NOTE> For he that will beleeve every tale,</L>
<L>And make mad bargaines,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> when he's in his Ale,</L>
<L><PB N="36" REF="27">
And his calling neglects, which &s;hould maintaine</L>
<L>His charge &s;o great<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 104. 23</NOTE> by his labour and paine,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 34. 8. Pro. 28. 7.</NOTE> He that's thus drawne away by company,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 28. 19.</NOTE> Doubtle&s;&s;e &s;hall come to extreame poverty.</L>
<L>In all which thou can&s;t not thy &s;elfe excu&s;e,</L>
<L>Though late, yet now,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 5. 11</NOTE> bad company refu&s;e.</L>
<L>Where are thy pot-companions, and thy crew</L>
<L>Of good fellowes? they bid thee now adieu:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 57. 13.</NOTE> They'le not come neere thee, now thou art in trouble&punc;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e thou ha&s;t not meanes with them to fuddle.</L>
<L>Such<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Joel 1. 5.</NOTE> drunkards are by drunkards call'd good fellowes,</L>
<L>Which rather &s;hould be call'd the Devils bellowes.</L>
<L>For he with them blowes and kindles the fire</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 23. 29, 30. Ecclus 31. 29.</NOTE> Of quarrels and debate, which they de&s;ire.</L>
<L>A good riddance thou ha&s;t of them, therefore</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 26. 5.</NOTE> De&s;ire thou their company no more.</L>
<L>And when thou ha&s;t thy liberty, doe not</L>
<L>Count him thy friend that's given to the pot.</L>
<L>For &s;uch a one will<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 19. 1</NOTE> cau&s;e thee to fore&s;low.</L>
<L>Thy bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, which may cua&s;e thy overthrow.</L>
<L>Thy wi&s;e and &s;ervants may doe what thy can,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 11. 11.</NOTE> Yet 'twill not thrive till thou be<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 5. 17.</NOTE> a new man.</L>
<L>But thou thy freedome ha&s;t not yet obtain'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 7.</NOTE> 'Tis God that hath thee hitherto re&s;train'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 33. 12.</NOTE> And if thou unto him do&s;t now repaire</L>
<L>In all humility by hearty prayer:</L>
<L>Confe&s;&s;ing all thy &s;innes, then make no doubt,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Jer. 38. 10.</NOTE> But he will rai&s;e thee friends to get thee out.</L>
<L>Con&s;ider how the Lord thou ha&s;t offended,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Amos 6. 6.</NOTE> And yet thy &s;infull life ha&s;t not amended:</L>
<L>Thy Carts were ne're charg'd with commoditie,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 1. 4.</NOTE> As thou art laden with iniquity.</L>
<L>Yet when unto the Inne they come, then they</L>
<L>Unladen are without any delay:</L>
<L>So<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mat. 11. 28.</NOTE> thou that laden art &s;o much with &s;in,</L>
<L>Goe to thy Saviour Chri&s;t, and &s;eeke to win</L>
<L><PB N="37" REF="27">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Joh. 14. 21.</NOTE> His love by thy obedience to his will,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Mat. 11. 29</NOTE> And he will ea&s;e thee, be thou ne're &s;o ill.</L>
<L>Thy waggon wheeles, when they want grea&s;e, doe cry,</L>
<L>And keep a &s;queeking, till thou them &s;upply.</L>
<L>So when thou feel'&s;t the want of grace,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Heb. 4. 16.</NOTE> cea&s;e not</L>
<L>To cry to God, till thou the &s;ame ha&s;t got:</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 15</NOTE> For wanting that, thou can&s;t not but offend</L>
<L>Thy gracious God,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Jer. 14. 10.</NOTE> for which cau&s;e he doth &s;end</L>
<L>The&s;e troubles, which his rods are to reclaime</L>
<L>Thee from tho&s;e &s;ins,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 33. 10.</NOTE> in which thou ha&s;t long laine:</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 44 10 Ho&s;. 5. 15.</NOTE> That by his cha&s;ti&s;ement thou may'&s;t be brought</L>
<L>To &s;erve God likewi&s;e,<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Col. 2. 7&punc;</NOTE> as thou ha&s;t been taught.</L>
<L>Thou know'&s;t, thy teeme of hor&s;es, though well fed,</L>
<L>Like pamper'd Jades, they care not to be led</L>
<L>Out of the Stable to thy Waggons, where</L>
<L>They are put to doe &s;ervice, 'tis thy care:</L>
<L>Yet if &s;ometimes they are not whipp'd and beaten,</L>
<L>They'll doe no &s;ervice, though thou them do&s;t threaten.</L>
<L>If God in like manner &s;hould not thee give</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 71.</NOTE> Correction, then in &s;in thou wonld'&s;t &s;till live,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Deut. 8. 11</NOTE> And him forget to &s;erve, that hath alwayes</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 121. 7, 8.</NOTE> Defended thee from danger all thy dayes.</L>
<L>Wherefore be<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 100. 4.</NOTE> thankfull to the Lord for this</L>
<L>His love to thee,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Joh. 5 14.</NOTE> and doe no more ami&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>Then when thy libertie thou &s;halt obtaine,</L>
<L>Thou may'&s;t with credit<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 3. 12.</NOTE> doe thy worke againe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Luk. 19. 15, 16, 17.</NOTE> And thy calling di&s;charge more faithfully</L>
<L>Then e're thou did&s;t when thou had&s;t more plenty.</L>
<L>Thy waggon wheeles, if thou not'&s;t, when they goe,</L>
<L>That part that's now above, anon's below:</L>
<L>Then that part that's below, again's on high;</L>
<L>Thus are all men &s;ubject to ca&s;ualtie:</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 12.</NOTE> There's no man breathing can &s;ay he &s;tands fa&s;t;</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 2. 7.</NOTE> The rich man that's up now, is &s;oon down ca&s;t:</L>
<L>Againe<NOTE N="(&s;)" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 2. 8.</NOTE> the poore man that is full of &s;orrow,</L>
<L>May be a poore man now, and rich to morrow.</L>
<L><PB N="38" REF="28">
Ob&s;erve thy waggon wheeles on the high way,</L>
<L>Which never cea&s;e turning about, till they</L>
<L>By turning, gain the place where thou would'&s;t be</L>
<L>Of thy lading di&s;charg'd: then thou art free.</L>
<L>So likewi&s;e &s;hould'&s;t thou turne about, untill</L>
<L>Thou turne not, as the wheeles turne in a mill.</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 36. 10. Ecclus. 17. 26.</NOTE> But turning from thy &s;innes, thou &s;halt have re&s;t,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 28.</NOTE> And then the Lord will turne all to the be&s;t.</L>
<L>And if by chance one of thy wheeles &s;hould breake</L>
<L>Upon the way, thou then would'&s;t &s;end to &s;peake</L>
<L>Unto the Wheele-right, to come and repaire</L>
<L>That breach, le&s;t thou &s;hould'&s;t be forc'd to &s;tay there.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">John 3. 4.</NOTE> So when thou do&s;t fall into any &s;in,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 4. 1, 2.</NOTE> Doe not at any hand lie long therein;</L>
<L>But quickly<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 John 2, 1</NOTE> goe to Chri&s;t, and hee'll thee give</L>
<L>Grace to amend,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Rom. 6. 2.</NOTE> that thou in no &s;inne live.</L>
<L>Ob&s;erve thy hor&s;es, (which doe &s;tand in awe)</L>
<L>Their heavy lading they doe forward draw,</L>
<L>So that by drawing thus, it's often &s;een,</L>
<L>They in due time come &s;afely to their Inne:</L>
<L>But if one of tho&s;e hor&s;es &s;hould draw back,</L>
<L>Their labour then were lo&s;t, and thou &s;hould&s;t lack.</L>
<L>Now if thou, with thy wife, and &s;ervants all</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 4&punc; 11, 12. P&s;. 133. 1.</NOTE> Agree together, then thy bu&s;ine&s;&s;e &s;hall</L>
<L>Goe forward, and no doubt but<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Deut. 28. 12</NOTE> God will ble&s;&s;e</L>
<L>And pro&s;per thy endeavours more or le&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jam. 3. 16. Gal. 5. 15.</NOTE> But if together you doe not agree,</L>
<L>Thou can&s;t not thrive, 'twill be the wor&s;e for thee.</L>
<L>Wherefore<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 25. 1.</NOTE> lift up thy &s;oule to God on hie,</L>
<L>For hee's<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 20.</NOTE> the God of peace and unitie:</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 5. 8.</NOTE> Hee'll &s;et all &s;traight, and thou &s;halt quickly finde</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Job 14. 14.</NOTE> A happy change, according to thy minde.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="39" REF="28">
<HEAD>CHAP. XVIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Ma&s;ter of the Tap-hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<L>THou art<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Judg. 3. 17. P&s;al. 73. 7.</NOTE> &s;o fat, that thou can&s;t hardly run,</L>
<L>And halfe as bigi'th middle as a Tun:</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Luk. 12, 19</NOTE> Thou tak'&s;t thine ea&s;e, and ha&s;t<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">&amp; 16. 19.</NOTE> daily good fare,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Amos 6. 6:</NOTE> Thou drink'&s;t good wine, untill thine eyes doe &s;tare.</L>
<L>Though thou a mighty man art in this place,</L>
<L>Yet liv'&s;t thou by tho&s;e that live in di&s;grace.</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Luk. 3. 13.</NOTE> exact on pris'ners that are here,</L>
<L>By &s;elling &s;uch things as thou ha&s;t, too deere.</L>
<L>Thy beere, though dead and low, yet do&s;t thou thinke</L>
<L>It's for poore pris'ners good enough to drinke:</L>
<L>Thy ale though &s;mall, and mea&s;ure very little,</L>
<L>Poore pri&s;oners mu&s;t have that, or none to tipple.</L>
<L>Thy bread though not full waight,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 9. 12.</NOTE> and nere &s;o &s;tale,</L>
<L>Thou think'&s;t it good enough to &s;op in ale.</L>
<L>Thy chee&s;e which thou mark'&s;t out &s;o neat and round,</L>
<L>At thy rate is almo&s;t two groats a pound.</L>
<L>Thy rich tobacco, which poore fooles are faine</L>
<L>To buy at thy deare rate, yeelds thee &s;weet gaine.</L>
<L>Thy pretty fine faggots, as green as gee&s;e,</L>
<L>Thou think'&s;t too cheape at &s;even tokens apeece.</L>
<L>Thy candles, which are made of kitchin &s;tuffe,</L>
<L>Are quickly burnt out to a &s;tinking &s;nuffe.</L>
<L>Thou art &s;o wi&s;e, that thou no coales wilt &s;ell</L>
<L>To pris'ners which within this hou&s;e doe dwell;</L>
<L>Neither wilt thou &s;uffer their friends to bring</L>
<L>Them &s;uch fuell, though it them co&s;t nothing.</L>
<L>What is the rea&s;on? let me tell thee plaine,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e by fagots thou &s;o much do&s;t gaine,</L>
<L>Regarding not<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Jer. 38. 9.</NOTE> what pris'ners doe endure,</L>
<L>So thou get'&s;t meanes to &s;atisfie the Brewer:</L>
<L><PB N="40" REF="29">
For by thy liquor thou gain'&s;t mo&s;t of all,</L>
<L>And that by drunkards: who doe cry and yall</L>
<L>For drinke, though they are full; yet when they will</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Hab. 2. 15.</NOTE> Have more, their pots thou wilt be &s;ure to fill.</L>
<L>Then they will drinke till they<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 107. 27.</NOTE> reele to and fro,</L>
<L>Not being able of them&s;elves to goe.</L>
<L>The&s;e are thy friends, which thou wilt not &s;ee lack</L>
<L>So long as they have a coat to their back:</L>
<L>And if &s;uch fellowes were not in this hou&s;e,</L>
<L>Thy trading then would &s;carce be worth a lou&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">E&s;t. 1. 8.</NOTE> Now when a civill man comes, that can't drinke</L>
<L>More then will doe him good, thou then do&s;t thinke</L>
<L>Hee's no good cu&s;tomer, let him &s;tand by,</L>
<L>For his roome's better then his company.</L>
<L>An hone&s;t man,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Levit. 25. 35.</NOTE> that's fallen to decay,</L>
<L>If he ask credit of thee for a day,</L>
<L>But for a penny loafe, or pot of beere,</L>
<L>Though he intreat thee, yet thou wilt not heare:</L>
<L>Nay, if he &s;hould be &s;ick, ready to dye,</L>
<L>For want thereof, thou would&s;t not him &s;upply.</L>
<L>If pris'ners have a minde to drinke i'th night,</L>
<L>No roome thoul't &s;pare, unle&s;&s;e they'll pay for light.</L>
<L>Such orders thou ha&s;t made, which I dare &s;ay,</L>
<L>May hold a while, which pris'ners mu&s;t obay:</L>
<L>But if thou thus continu'&s;t<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 25.</NOTE> to doe wrong,</L>
<L>Thou may'&s;t thy &s;elfe a pri&s;oner be ere long.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XIX.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Card-player, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>ALl thy delight's here in playing at Cards,</L>
<L>And u&s;ually with tho&s;e that have<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 20&punc; 29.</NOTE> gray beards,</L>
<L>Old men that dote,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Zech. 8. 4.</NOTE> and have one foot i'th grave,</L>
<L>Although in pri&s;on, yet they needs mu&s;t have</L>
<L><PB N="41" REF="29">
A payre of Cards, to drive the time away,</L>
<L>And then their heads together they will lay:</L>
<L>Making their matches with &s;uch eagerne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>As if they were about great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>All which is for Tobacco and &s;trong Beere,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 2.</NOTE> Which they will have, although it co&s;t them deare.</L>
<L>And when they doe mi&s;take, they then fall out,</L>
<L>And in great choler throw their Cards about.</L>
<L>But why &s;hould'&s;t thou,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 20. 29.</NOTE> that art lu&s;tly and &s;trong,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 21. 17.</NOTE> Sit at this idle &s;port all the day long?</L>
<L>Before thou cam'&s;t to pri&s;on, thou did&s;t &s;pend</L>
<L>Thy chiefe&s;t time in Carding mo&s;t an end.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 19</NOTE> Which idle cour&s;e of life, I mu&s;t needs &s;ay,</L>
<L>Hath beene the onely cau&s;e of thy decay.</L>
<L>But now thou art a pris'ner in this place,</L>
<L>Me thinks thou &s;hould'&s;t not have &s;o little grace</L>
<L>As to continue playing in this kinde,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Heb. 6. 9.</NOTE> When thou to better things &s;hould give thy minde.</L>
<L>I wonder of what mettle thou art made,</L>
<L>That thou &s;hould'&s;t alwayes follow &s;uch a trade.</L>
<L>But &s;eeing now thou wilt not be reclaim'd</L>
<L>From Carding, by which thou &s;ay'&s;t thou ha&s;t gain'd;</L>
<L>Know this from me, whether thou lo&s;e or win,</L>
<L>Thou art a lo&s;er<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 3. 4.</NOTE> by committing &s;in.</L>
<L>When thou the Cards do&s;t deale&punc; afraid thou art</L>
<L>To lo&s;e thy dealing, for 'twill vex thy heart.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 10. 4.</NOTE> Yet thou thy dealing ha&s;t now lo&s;t with tho&s;e</L>
<L>By whom thou got'&s;t money, meat, drink, and cloathes.</L>
<L>When thou the Cards did&s;t cut, thou know'&s;t not where</L>
<L>To cut them, yet thereof thou ha&s;t a care.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 106. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> If thou had&s;t beene cut &s;hort of thine owne will,</L>
<L>When thou wa&s;t free, thou might'&s;t have beene &s;o &s;till.</L>
<L>When thou the Cards do&s;t &s;huffle at thine ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Such a game thou may&s;t have as may thee plea&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Tit. 1. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> A &s;huffling fellow thou ha&s;t beene, tho&s;e &s;ay,</L>
<L>Which oft advis'd thee to give over play.</L>
<L><PB N="42" REF="30">
When thou a good game ha&s;t, thou bend'&s;t thy wits</L>
<L>Thy game to play well, to get many trickes:</L>
<L>If all be true, I lately under&s;tood,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Micah 2. 1.</NOTE> Thou ha&s;t more tricks then e're will doe thee good.</L>
<L>When thou ha&s;t &s;tore of Trumps thou then do&s;t grin,</L>
<L>And fleere, becau&s;e thou then art &s;ure to win.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 14</NOTE> Thou with much trump'ry art &s;tor'd every day,</L>
<L>Which thou wilt keepe, and never play away.</L>
<L>When one a ten doth play, the trick to &s;ave,</L>
<L>Thou that trick winn'&s;t by playing of the knave.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 7. 14.</NOTE> Thou ha&s;t oft times the knave play'd, and yet ha&s;t</L>
<L>Not got thereby, but greatly lo&s;t at la&s;t.</L>
<L>When thou do&s;t rub, thou then art very glad,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e thy game can then be hardly bad.</L>
<L>A dangerous<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 28. 26.</NOTE> rub thou ha&s;t in this place, which</L>
<L>Will make thee rub and &s;cratch where't doth not itch.</L>
<L>Againe, when thou do&s;t rub thou art a getter,</L>
<L>The &s;tock thou gain'&s;t, which makes thy game the better.</L>
<L>Thou had'&s;t in former time a pretty &s;tock,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 15. 29.</NOTE> Which thou by play ha&s;t lo&s;t, like a Wood-cocke.</L>
<L>If thou renounce, and wilt not follow &s;uit,</L>
<L>Thou play'&s;t foule play, and cau&s;e&s;t a di&s;pute.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jam. 47.</NOTE> Renounce the Devill, and his workes, le&s;t he</L>
<L>Follow thee clo&s;e, and never renounce thee.</L>
<L>When thou a Card di&s;card'&s;t, it is conceiv'd,</L>
<L>'Tis for the be&s;t, yet may'&s;t thou be deceiv'd.</L>
<L>Tho&s;e that di&s;carded thee, did play their game</L>
<L>Exceeding well,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 9. 7.</NOTE> for thou tho&s;e friends did'&s;t &s;hame.</L>
<L>If the&s;e the fruits of idle Carding be,</L>
<L>For &s;hame give't o're, that thy be&s;t friends may &s;ee</L>
<L>Some alteration in thee in this place,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 65. 4.</NOTE> And that thou wilt &s;ome goodne&s;&s;e now imbrace.</L>
<L>'Twill be a meanes thou may&s;t once more obtaine</L>
<L>Their love<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Pro. 11. 27.</NOTE> and favour, to help thee againe</L>
<L>Out of this na&s;ty place, where<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 70. 5.</NOTE> thou do&s;t lack</L>
<L>Food for thy belly, and clothes to thy back.</L>
<L><PB N="43" REF="30">
And likewi&s;e may for thee a way contrive,</L>
<L>How in &s;ome hone&s;t calling<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Deut. 29. 9.</NOTE> thou may&s;t thrive.</L>
<L>Which cour&s;e of life no doubt but God will ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 118. 5.</NOTE> And keep thee from living in &s;uch di&s;tre&s;&s;e.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XX.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Papi&s;t, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>THou art not here afflicted (as thou know'&s;t)</L>
<L>For thy Religion, but for what thou ow'&s;t.</L>
<L>Thy creditor<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rev. 3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">6.</NOTE> doth not much &s;tand upon</L>
<L>Religion, &s;o he may but have his owne.</L>
<L>For he's a man that's rich, and<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 5.</NOTE> covetous,</L>
<L>Which makes him, as thou art, idolatrous.</L>
<L>Now thou art here,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Job 21. 34.</NOTE> &s;mall comfort thou &s;halt finde</L>
<L>From him, and others, 'twill trouble thy minde.</L>
<L>For when thou art in want, and otherwi&s;e</L>
<L>Afflicted here, thy friends<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 12. 5.</NOTE> will thee de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
<L>Then wilt thou in a poore condition be,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Num. 14. 43.</NOTE> If God be not thy friend, to &s;tand by thee.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 28. 16.</NOTE> But thou that ha&s;t made God thine enemy,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 42. 17.</NOTE> By tru&s;ting gods that are meere vanity:</L>
<L>Adhering to the<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rev. 17. 1. 5</NOTE> Whore of Babylon,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Rev. 17. 14.</NOTE> The enemy of Chri&s;t, Gods onely Sonne,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 14. 7, 8.</NOTE> Can&s;t not from that great God true comfort have,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Rev. 14. 8.</NOTE> That art to that<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">&amp; 17. 4.</NOTE> great Whore &s;uch a bond&s;lave.</L>
<L>What an erronious Church do&s;t thou live in,</L>
<L>That to all men<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Gal. 5. 13. Ecclus 15. 20.</NOTE> gives liberty to &s;inne?</L>
<L>The Pope,<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 2. 3</NOTE> that man of &s;in (who is mi&s;-led</L>
<L>By Satan) is of that fal&s;e Church the head.</L>
<L>That head that hath on it a triple crowne,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">2 The&s; 2 8</NOTE> Shall one day be by<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5. 23.</NOTE> Chri&s;t our Head pull'd downe.</L>
<L>The Pope, with his<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Rev. 9 3.</NOTE> Locu&s;ts, his underlings,</L>
<L>Have power, as thou beleev'&s;t,<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Mar. 2. 7.</NOTE> to pardon &s;ins.</L>
<L><PB N="44" REF="31">
But if &s;uch &s;inners as to them doe goe</L>
<L>To have their &s;innes forgiven, they mu&s;t know,</L>
<L>If they fall &s;hort of money to obtaine</L>
<L>Their pardons, then their labour's but in vaine.</L>
<L>In what a poore dei&s;tre&s;&s;ed ca&s;e art thou,</L>
<L>That want'&s;t thy liberty, and know'&s;t now how</L>
<L>A little meanes to get, that art in debt,</L>
<L>That thou a pardon for thy &s;innes may'&s;t get?</L>
<L>What though thou think'&s;t thy &s;ins be ne're &s;o &s;mall?</L>
<L>No pardon thou &s;halt have for them at all,</L>
<L>Unle&s;&s;e thy gho&s;tly Father thou content</L>
<L>With money, then though thou doe not repent,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 43. 25</NOTE> He'le pardon them, though they be ne're &s;o great;</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Rev. 12. 9. 2&punc; Cor. 4. 4.</NOTE> Thus doth the Devill all &s;uch blinde fooles cheat.</L>
<L>Oh! how are all the members of thy Church</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;&s;. 2. 11.</NOTE> Deluded, and at la&s;t left in the lurch?</L>
<L>That cannot be a true, but fal&s;e religion&punc;</L>
<L>Which mo&s;t wi&s;e men thereof have in deri&s;ion.</L>
<L>The Religion of the Romi&s;h Church is &s;uch,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Rev. 17. 4.</NOTE> As is polluted and defiled much:</L>
<L>The wickedne&s;&s;e thereof cannot be hid,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mar. 7. 9.</NOTE> For that maintaines that, which Gods Lawes forbid,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Lev. 26. 1.</NOTE> Idolatry,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 4.</NOTE> which true Chri&s;tians abhor,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 King. 12 19. 1 Pet. 2. 13. 14</NOTE> Rebellion again&s;t Princes, and yet more,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Lev. 20. 10.</NOTE> Adultery, and<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 6. 18.</NOTE> fornication, which</L>
<L>Them permitted is, to poore and rich;</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Zach. 5. 4.</NOTE> Perjury,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 1. 10.</NOTE> Buggery,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Gen. 19. 36.</NOTE> Ince&s;t, and &s;uch like</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 36. 14.</NOTE> Abhominations, of which they make light.</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Popi&s;h Clergy doe and will maintaine,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e thereby they have much<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 3. 3</NOTE> filthy gaine:</L>
<L>This &s;eemes a brave Religion to th'unwi&s;e,</L>
<L>That's &s;tuft with<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 1.</NOTE> ba&s;e old here&s;ies, and lyes.</L>
<L>What good do&s;t thinke from thy Religion &s;prings,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Rom&punc; 16. 17.</NOTE> That contradicts it &s;elfe in many things?</L>
<L>But when<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 140.</NOTE> the Word of God, which is &s;o pure,</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 3.</NOTE> Is thereby cro&s;s'd, who can the &s;ame endure?</L>
<L><PB N="45" REF="31">
But<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 6. 15</NOTE> truth and fal&s;hood we &s;hall never &s;ee</L>
<L>As long as this world la&s;ts, e're to agree.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Acts 3. 17.</NOTE> Thou that in ignorance ha&s;t been &s;o long bred,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 2. 21</NOTE> Know'&s;t not the truth, no more then he that's dead.</L>
<L>Tho&s;e<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 4.</NOTE> ignorant Clergie,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Heb. 10. 26</NOTE> that the truth would &s;mother,</L>
<L>Say, Ignorance of devotion is the mother.</L>
<L>What greater ignorance then, can there be found,</L>
<L>Then in the Romi&s;h Church,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 4. 6.</NOTE> that's therein drown'd?</L>
<L>How can it otherwi&s;e be, when they deny</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Acts 17. 11</NOTE> The Scriptures to be read to the Laity?</L>
<L>Such orders they have made; and be&s;ides this&punc;</L>
<L>What&s;o'ere they doe, be't ne're &s;o much ami&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>Yet will they not by Gods pure<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 105. 19.</NOTE> word be try'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jer. 8. 9. Pro. 13. 13.</NOTE> Becau&s;e they never could the &s;ame abide.</L>
<L>It is no marvell then, they are &s;o vile,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;&s;. 2. 10.</NOTE> Whom Satan their leader doth thus beguile:</L>
<L>For he conducts them cleane<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 15.</NOTE> out of the way,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 4. 6.</NOTE> From truth to errours, for they him obey.</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Rev. 19. 19</NOTE> Such as under the Devils banner fight</L>
<L>Again&s;t their Maker, the great God of might,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Rev. 19. 20</NOTE> Shall lo&s;e the battell&punc; and likewi&s;e be &s;ure</L>
<L>Eternall captivitie to endure.</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Rev. 14. 9. 10.</NOTE> Such &s;hall th'e&s;tate and the condition be</L>
<L>Of all Idolaters&punc; that from God flee.</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Wild. 14. 27, 28.</NOTE> for &s;uch regard not what &s;innes they commit,</L>
<L>As dumb Idols and Images wor&s;hip.</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 12. Micah 2. 1.</NOTE> What devilli&s;h plots and practi&s;es have been</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 124. 7.</NOTE> Di&s;cover'd here again&s;t our King and Queen,</L>
<L>And all our Royall I&s;&s;ue, with our State&punc;</L>
<L>By all the Romi&s;h Sect,<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5. 12.</NOTE> who &s;corne and hate</L>
<L>All Chri&s;tians, which the Go&s;pell doe profe&s;&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1. 12</NOTE> With all &s;inceritie: yet ne're the le&s;&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">1 King. 6. 20.</NOTE> They would have blowne up all, ('twas their intent)</L>
<L>When they a&s;&s;embled were in Parliament.</L>
<L>Tho&s;e that unto their<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Mat. 15. 9.</NOTE> Doctrine will not yeeld,</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. 39.</NOTE> Shall be tormented, &s;courg'd&punc; and at la&s;t kill'd:</L>
<L><PB N="46" REF="32">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. 37</NOTE> Such crueltie they u&s;e to Chri&s;ts poore members,</L>
<L>As if in hell there were no &s;uch offenders.</L>
<L>This Church<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Rev. 17. 5.</NOTE> (the mother of harlots) is knowne</L>
<L>To be the Church<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Acts 17. 22</NOTE> of Ceremonies alone:</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 21. 12.</NOTE> Organs with other &s;weet mu&s;ick, and &s;inging,</L>
<L>Wax<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Baruch 6. 19.</NOTE> candles lighted, Bookes, and Bells oft ringing:</L>
<L>Rich Copes, fine Beads, and holy water, which</L>
<L>With other rare conceits that &s;ome bewitch:</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 115. 4. Baruch 6. 39.</NOTE> Brave images, and pictures of &s;ome Saints,</L>
<L>And Angels, which they &s;ay, heare their complaints.</L>
<L>Cro&s;&s;es guilded with gold, be&s;et with &s;tones,</L>
<L>And Relicks, whereof &s;ome are dead mens bones,</L>
<L>And &s;ome are teeth, heads, armes, and other parts</L>
<L>Of Saints di&s;membred, which grieves not their hearts</L>
<L>To &s;ee what mon&s;ters they of &s;ome Saints make,</L>
<L>At which the wi&s;er &s;ort their heads doe &s;hake.</L>
<L>One Saint at &s;everall places had three heads,</L>
<L>Sixe armes another, and a third foure leggs.</L>
<L>There was a Saint in England, we are told,</L>
<L>That had more teeth then two hogs-heads could hold.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 2. 11.</NOTE> Such lying fopperies Papi&s;ts maintaine,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 106. 39.</NOTE> As meerly are devis'd by their owne braine.</L>
<L>A man would wonder, in this age, to &s;ee</L>
<L>What &s;trange di&s;order'd orders now there be</L>
<L>Ordained in the Church of Rome, whereby</L>
<L>That Church is much enrich'd; but the Country</L>
<L>And Kingdomes that are &s;ubject thereunto,</L>
<L>Are much impoveri&s;h'd, &s;ome they quite undoe.</L>
<L>So many Sects there are, both high and low,</L>
<L>Of Clergie-men, which they them&s;elves &s;carce know:</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 2. 17.</NOTE> The lofty Cardinalls, proud and ambitious;</L>
<L>The Je&s;uites,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Acts 13. 50</NOTE> which are every where &s;editious;</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 5. 3.</NOTE> The domineering Bi&s;hops, which have cures;</L>
<L>The lazie [Monks]<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 4 P&s;al 37 7.</NOTE> that are meere Epicures&punc;</L>
<L>The drunken Prie&s;ts,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 44. 15. 16.</NOTE> who eat their breaden Gods;</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Jer. 5. 8.</NOTE> The lecherous [Friers] who whip Nuns with rods;</L>
<L><PB N="47" REF="32">
The Capuchins, who weare to &s;hirts, and goe</L>
<L>By two and two,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 28.</NOTE> are hypocrites we know&punc;</L>
<L>And divers other Orders from Rome &s;ent,</L>
<L>With uncha&s;te Nuns, make up the<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Jer. 5. 27.</NOTE> Rabblement.</L>
<L>The&s;e Popi&s;h Clergie are<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4. 3.</NOTE> forbid to marry,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 7. 4.</NOTE> And yet from common whores cannot long tarry.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 7. 9.</NOTE> Their reines mu&s;t needs be purg'd by maids or wives,</L>
<L>El&s;e they'll be &s;ick, and endanger their lives.</L>
<L>It is more lawfull for a Prie&s;t to have</L>
<L>Ten Concubines, then one wife, ne're &s;o brave.</L>
<L>This<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4. 1.</NOTE> Devilli&s;h doctrine is taught unto tho&s;e</L>
<L>That are apt Schollers, whom their Ma&s;ter knowes.</L>
<L>They likewi&s;e doe on certaine dayes<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4. 3.</NOTE> forbid</L>
<L>Fle&s;h to be eaten; and yet they in&s;tead</L>
<L>Of fle&s;h may eat of other things their fill,</L>
<L>With dainty Cakes and &s;weet-meates, if they will,</L>
<L>And &s;ev'rall &s;orts of wine of plea&s;ant ta&s;te;</L>
<L>This is the manner of the Popi&s;h Fa&s;t.</L>
<L>If thou &s;uch fa&s;ting dayes could'&s;t here ob&s;erve,</L>
<L>Though thou fa&s;t often, yet thou need'&s;t not &s;tarve.</L>
<L>But what a wicked cu&s;tome have tho&s;e got,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 14. 14.</NOTE> That in a &s;trange tongue pray, which they know not?</L>
<L>Yet ignorant Papi&s;ts pray as they are taught,</L>
<L>Although their prayers (God knowes) are &s;tarke naught:</L>
<L>For when they under&s;tand not what they &s;ay,</L>
<L>They doe but prate; a Parrat may &s;o pray.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 King. 18. 26.</NOTE> The forme and &s;ub&s;tance of their prayer's &s;uch</L>
<L>As doth the Lord di&s;honour very much:</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Luk. 11. 2.</NOTE> For to &s;ome Saints they pray, and cannot tell</L>
<L>Whether tho&s;e Saints in heav'n be, or in hell.</L>
<L>Whether true Saints, or Popi&s;h Saints,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Jer. 11. 12.</NOTE> they faile</L>
<L>That to them pray; 'twill nothing them availe:</L>
<L>Yet when this Popi&s;h crew want helpe, they then</L>
<L>Pray to tho&s;e Saints, which were but mortall men.</L>
<L>The Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Jer. 7. 18.</NOTE> &s;he's more call'd upon</L>
<L>Then Chri&s;t<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Luk. 1. 47.</NOTE> her Saviour, the<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Mat. 21. 42.</NOTE> chiefe corner &s;tone.</L>
<L><PB N="48" REF="33">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rev. 19. 10. &amp; 22, 8, 9. Col. 2. 18.</NOTE> Angels that are Gods &s;ervants, as Saints be,</L>
<L>They wor&s;hip, for their Church doth &s;o agree.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Exo. 20. 4.</NOTE> Carv'd Images and pictures on the wall,</L>
<L>Cro&s;&s;es, Relicks, and other things withall</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 115. 4, 5, 6, 7.</NOTE> That have no life, yet<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jer. 50. 38.</NOTE> they like bea&s;ts doe creepe</L>
<L>And crawle to them, &s;ometimes i'th open &s;treet:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Exo. 20. 5.</NOTE> And when they are thus pro&s;trate, then they cry</L>
<L>Unto tho&s;e Idols, their wants to &s;upply.</L>
<L>So &s;oone as people dye, their<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 46.</NOTE> &s;oules doe goe</L>
<L>To heaven or hell, the word of God &s;aith &s;o.</L>
<L>Yet tho&s;e ungodly Papi&s;ts have invented</L>
<L>A place be&s;ides hell, where &s;oules are tormented;</L>
<L>That place of Purgatory, where they &s;ay,</L>
<L>The &s;oules mu&s;t needs be<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Heb. 1. 3.</NOTE> purg'd before that day.</L>
<L>They are deliver'd thence, therefore they make</L>
<L>For tho&s;e &s;oules prayers, which lye in that lake.</L>
<L>Thus tho&s;e, that are in thy religion bred,</L>
<L>In vaine doe pray for their friends, which are dead.</L>
<L>Beleeve me, if a Purgatory be</L>
<L>On earth, 'tis here, thou can&s;t not chu&s;e but &s;ee.</L>
<L>This place will thee &s;o purge, thou need'&s;t not care</L>
<L>To be purged againe, thou know'&s;t not where.</L>
<L>The Romi&s;h Church, like Phari&s;ies and Scribes,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Mar. 7. 13.</NOTE> Preferre mens vaine Traditions&punc; (like<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 24.</NOTE> blinde guides)</L>
<L>Before the written word of God, which none</L>
<L>But &s;uch bla&s;phemers<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Lev. 26. 15&punc; 16. Pro. 13. 13.</NOTE> doe de&s;pi&s;e alone:</L>
<L>For they<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Rev. 22. 18.</NOTE> adde thereunto, and<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">&amp; 19.</NOTE> from it take</L>
<L>That which &s;hall make their &s;oules in hell to quake.</L>
<L>Their great legend of<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 52. 3.</NOTE> lyes is more &s;et by</L>
<L>Then<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Pro. 30. 5.</NOTE> Gods pure word,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Job 37. 22.</NOTE> that's full of Maje&s;ty.</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Exo. 34. 28</NOTE> ten Commandements of God, wherein</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Deut. 32. 34 Col 2. 3.</NOTE> A ma&s;&s;e of trea&s;ure's lockt up to the brim:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Clergie have the &s;econd cleane left out:</L>
<L>And of the la&s;t made two: there is no doubt</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 33. 22.</NOTE> But God, that gave tho&s;e lawes, will &s;uddenly</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 97. 7.</NOTE> Bring them to &s;hame for their Idolatry,</L>
<L><PB N="49" REF="33">
Which &s;in's again&s;t that great Commandement,</L>
<L>And that's the rea&s;on the Coun&s;ell of Trent</L>
<L>Would not have that once mention'd, le&s;t thereby</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Act. 17. 16 Jer. 5. 31.</NOTE> Their people &s;hould forbeare Idolatry.</L>
<L>Though in<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 7. 2.</NOTE> Gods Law all &s;ins are comprehended,</L>
<L>Yet have tho&s;e out-law'd Clergy recommended</L>
<L>Unto their people five Command'ments more</L>
<L>Then e're the primitive Church heard of before.</L>
<L>Which lawes are &s;o ob&s;erv'd without excu&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Jer. 9. 13. 14, 15.</NOTE> As Gods Lawes now are almo&s;t out of u&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Luk. 11. 42.</NOTE> That man that breakes but one Commandement</L>
<L>Of theirs, mu&s;t penance doe, though he repent:</L>
<L>But if he &s;hould at once breake all Gods Lawes,</L>
<L>No penance he &s;hould doe: and why? becau&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 16. 20</NOTE> The &s;ins again&s;t tho&s;e Lawes are very &s;mall,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 John 3. 4. 8.</NOTE> And &s;ome &s;uch &s;ins they count but veniall:</L>
<L>The Prie&s;t therefore no penance will enjoyne</L>
<L>To &s;uch a &s;inner, though he have no coine.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Exod. 20. 8.</NOTE> The Lords day all true Chri&s;tians &s;anctifie</L>
<L>An holy re&s;t to God our Lord on high:</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Act. 20. 7.</NOTE> Which day's appointed to read, heare, and pray,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Exod. 20. 10.</NOTE> And no worke to be done upon that day.</L>
<L>But tho&s;e prophane and wretched Papi&s;ts hold,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Neh. 10. 31</NOTE> That wares on that day may be bought and &s;old.</L>
<L>After they have i'th morning beene at Ma&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Neh. 13. 15.</NOTE> Some goe to worke, and &s;ome their time doe pa&s;&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 58. 13</NOTE> In wanton &s;ports; thus they may worke or play</L>
<L>On that day more then any holy day.</L>
<L>Chri&s;t only hath<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4. 5. 1 Cor. 11. 26.</NOTE> two Sacraments ordain'd,</L>
<L>Which in his Church &s;hall ever be maintain'd:</L>
<L>The Church of Rome hath added thereunto</L>
<L>Five Sacraments more, which they ought not to doe.</L>
<L>The two which Chri&s;t ordain'd, the&s;e men unwi&s;e</L>
<L>Sophi&s;ticate with their ceremonies:</L>
<L>The other five they never could maintaine</L>
<L>As Sacraments to be joyn'd with tho&s;e twaine.</L>
<L><PB N="50" REF="34">
Now this corrupted Church, with much envie,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 30 6.</NOTE> Adde what they li&s;t to Gods Word wrongfully.</L>
<L>The Canons of the Ma&s;&s;e they hold equall</L>
<L>Unto the<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Rev. 14. 6.</NOTE> Go&s;pel, which is eternall.</L>
<L>This helli&s;h doctrine they hold, and &s;o would</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13 9.</NOTE> Have all the world beleeve it, if they could:</L>
<L>And to win credit thereunto, we know</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Rev. 16. 14</NOTE> They did fal&s;e miracles devi&s;e, and &s;o</L>
<L>Amaz'd the people, and made &s;ome to jarre;</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Rev. 19. 20 Bell and Dra. 13. 14. 20. 21.</NOTE> But now their juggling trickes di&s;cover'd are.</L>
<L>The&s;e are the blinde Scribes, and Phari&s;ees, that</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 24</NOTE> Swallow a Camell, and &s;traine at a Gnat.</L>
<L>And yet the&s;e merit-mongers, though they be</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 101. 8</NOTE> Such wicked livers, as the world may &s;ee:</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Luk. 17. 10</NOTE> They thinke to merit heaven by their good workes:</L>
<L>Such wicked Chri&s;tians are as bad as Turkes.</L>
<L>Nay<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Joh. 8. 44.</NOTE> the&s;e &s;onnes of their Father, that old Lyer,</L>
<L>Say men may doe more then Gods Lawes require.</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Jude 11.</NOTE> Such damnable and wicked errours the&s;e</L>
<L>Ba&s;e Antichri&s;tians teach, even as they plea&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 106. 35 36.</NOTE> Thou art one of their Schollers, here de&s;pi&s;'d,</L>
<L>Forget their le&s;&s;ons,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 20.</NOTE> and be well advi&s;'d.</L>
<L>It may be God to this Schoole hath thee brought,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 29. 24.</NOTE> To learne a le&s;&s;on which thou ne're wa&s;t taught.</L>
<L>If thou wilt therefore<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 34. 16.</NOTE> Gods Book take in hand,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Luk. 24. 45</NOTE> And learne the &s;ame rightly to under&s;tand,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 14.</NOTE> Thou wilt abandon all that Popi&s;h crew,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Luk. 12. 32</NOTE> And be of Chri&s;ts poore flocke, though they be few:</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Act. 8. 32.</NOTE> Reade then the holy Scriptures with delight,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tim. 4 13.</NOTE></L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 1. 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 words">.</NOTE> O that will make thee &s;ee darkne&s;&s;e from light.</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">The prayer <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"></NOTE> Though thou a great idolater ha&s;t beene</L>
<L>Long time,<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5. 16.</NOTE> yet now thy time &s;eeke to redeeme:</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 5.</NOTE> And if thou call'&s;t thy grievous &s;ins to minde,</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> 21.</NOTE> Seeking to God for mercy, thou &s;halt finde</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pet. 2. 10 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> 45. 8.</NOTE> That he his gracious favour will extend</L>
<L>Unto thee here,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> 4. 1.</NOTE> and free thee in the end.</L>
<L><PB N="51" REF="34">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 King. 21&punc; 2. &amp;c.</NOTE><HI>Mana&s;&s;eh</HI> was a great idolater,</L>
<L>As thou and others of thy Church now are:</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 33. 10.</NOTE> He would not hearken to the Lord, untill</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">V. 11.</NOTE> He was in great affliction, very ill;</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">V. 12.</NOTE> He being led into captivity,</L>
<L>Humbled him&s;elfe, and to the Lord did cry;</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">V. 13.</NOTE> Who heard his voice, that was in &s;uch di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And did out of that bondage him relea&s;e;</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Prayer of Mana&s;&s;eh.</NOTE> Be thou like him, now thou afflicted art,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 32. 5.</NOTE> Confe&s;&s;e thy &s;ins to God, with all thy heart.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 2. 28 P&s;al. 31. 6.</NOTE> In him alone put all thy confidence;</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 86. 11.</NOTE> Embrace the truth, let it be thy defence.</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 51. 13.</NOTE> Thou being thus converted, God will thy</L>
<L>Body and &s;oule<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4. 18.</NOTE> pre&s;erve continually.</L>
<L>Then as <HI>Mana&s;&s;eh</HI> was deliver'd, &s;o</L>
<L>Shalt thou likewi&s;e, then<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 33. 13.</NOTE> thou the Lord wilt know.</L>
<L>Thou being then<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 1. 4.</NOTE> endued with Gods grace,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 92. 1.</NOTE> Wilt give him thankes that brought thee to this place,</L>
<L>Where thou &s;halt not &s;tay long, if thou him love,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1. 4.</NOTE> For hee'le remove thee to a place above;</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 6. 9.</NOTE> To which place no Idolater &s;hall goe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Rev. 14. 11</NOTE> For their dwelling &s;hall be in hell below.</L>
<L>But tho&s;e that are<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5. 30.</NOTE> Chri&s;ts members, when they dye,</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Joh. 17. 24.</NOTE> Shall live with him their<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Col. 1. 18.</NOTE> head eternally.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXI.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his Brother:</HEAD>
<L>I Mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e thou art<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 17. 28.</NOTE> my elder brother,</L>
<L>But if in Bark&s;hire there be &s;uch another,</L>
<L>I am deceiv'd; yet can I not forbeare</L>
<L>In my di&s;tre&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 13. 17.</NOTE> but this to thee declare:</L>
<L>Five months and upward in this place have I</L>
<L>A pris'ner beene, thou can&s;t it not deny;</L>
<L><PB N="52" REF="35">
In all which time<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 18, 26.</NOTE> although thou knew'&s;t my griefe,</L>
<L>Would'&s;t not at all &s;end me the lea&s;t reliefe.</L>
<L>Had it not beene for &s;ome here, that me cheri&s;h'd</L>
<L>At certaine times,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 9. 18.</NOTE> I might have &s;tarv'd and peri&s;h'd</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ruth 2. 14. Luke 10. 33.</NOTE> More love have I from the&s;e poore &s;trangers found,</L>
<L>Then from thy &s;elfe, &s;ince this world on me frown'd.</L>
<L>But now in pri&s;on I am, thou know'&s;t where,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Luke 10. 31. 32.</NOTE> Whether I &s;inke or &s;wim, thou tak'&s;t no care.</L>
<L>Had&s;t thou a feeling of my mi&s;ery,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 John 4. 20.</NOTE> Thou could'&s;t not have &s;o little charity</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 8.</NOTE> Thus to neglect me, now I am in thrall,</L>
<L>But that thou art<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 3</NOTE> to me unnaturall.</L>
<L>Con&s;ider therefore,<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Zech. 7. 9.</NOTE> and doe not forget</L>
<L>Thy brother, that's impri&s;oned for debt.</L>
<L>I was thy friend, and am thy brother, tho</L>
<L>In Pri&s;on,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Job 16. 20.</NOTE> where fal&s;e friends will not me know.</L>
<L>Thou art my brother, yet I mu&s;t thee tell,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 24</NOTE> A true friend's neerer to me, I know well.</L>
<L>Let me therefore not onely thee advi&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 4. 9.</NOTE> To be my brother, but my friend likewi&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Mat. 7. 12.</NOTE> Doe as thou would'&s;t be done unto, thou then</L>
<L>Wilt plea&s;e the Lord, and be belov'd of men.</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Rom. 14. 10.</NOTE> How&s;oe're thou deal'&s;t with me, I'le &s;trive to be</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 5.</NOTE> Contented, and<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5. 25</NOTE> pray to the Lord for thee:</L>
<L>Hoping, though I in this extremity</L>
<L>Have not thy helpe, yet<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 1. 6</NOTE> God will &s;anctifie</L>
<L>The&s;e great afflictions to me, and me &s;end</L>
<L>Helpe and<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 9.</NOTE> deliv'rance out of them i'th end.</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Num. 27. 3</NOTE> Our father's dead, be not &s;o &s;trange to me,</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t we have breath<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 133. 1.</NOTE> let us not di&s;agree.</L>
<L>Then though we have no father, hee'le us ble&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 6<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 5.</NOTE> Who is a father of the fatherle&s;&s;e.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="53" REF="35">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the mercifull Creditour.</HEAD>
<L>A Poore man thou ha&s;t in this Pri&s;on layd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Philem. 11</NOTE> Who heretofore was by thee well imploy'd.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 King. 12 15.</NOTE> Credit thou gav'&s;t him, and did'&s;t him well u&s;e,</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t he dealt with thee, yet did he refu&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 Kin. 4. 7.</NOTE> To give thee &s;uch content as he was able,</L>
<L>And yet without ju&s;t cau&s;e<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 10. 31</NOTE> did with thee brabble:</L>
<L>Wherefore when thou in him could'&s;t finde no rea&s;on,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 55. 19</NOTE> Hither thou &s;ent'&s;t him, which was in due &s;ea&s;on:</L>
<L>For &s;ince his being here,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 13.</NOTE> he's mortifi'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Tit. 3. 3.</NOTE> That heretofore was &s;tout, and full of pride.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 35. 20.</NOTE> Now in his great di&s;tre&s;&s;e, when he to thee</L>
<L>Did make his mone, thou quickly did'&s;t agree,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jer. 52. 31</NOTE> Not onely to relea&s;e him, but al&s;o</L>
<L>To &s;et him up againe, that's brought &s;o low.</L>
<L>In all which thou thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> to be</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 3. 8.</NOTE> Compa&s;&s;ionate, loving, courteous and free.</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5 7.</NOTE> Such men are ble&s;t that in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> delight:</L>
<L>For they &s;hall at Gods hands receive the like.</L>
<L>Thy poore debtor when he's out of this place,</L>
<L>May by thy meanes be in a happy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Proc 9. 6.</NOTE> Leaving his former folly and betake</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe to that which may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> make</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Pro. 6. 1, 2&punc;</NOTE> Him feare to run in debt, having a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>To live within his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 words"></L>
<L>And by degree,<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 4. 2.</NOTE> make best use of his time</L>
<L>As may appeare to that to be a &s;igne</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 10.</NOTE> That he'le a new man be, and by Gods grace</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">2 pet. 3. 18</NOTE> Will learne in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> a pace:</L>
<L>Then though thy debt he doe di&s;charge, yet &s;till</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Philem. 19</NOTE> He's thy debtor, but not again&s;t thy will.</L>
<L><PB N="54" REF="36">
For debts of &s;uch a high nature are not</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 16. 18.</NOTE> To be by hone&s;t Chri&s;tians e're forgot:</L>
<L>Which debtors, though<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Jam. 2. 5.</NOTE> they may be poore in &s;pirit,</L>
<L>Will make thee rich, that &s;halt one day inherit</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 34.</NOTE> A kingdome, that's for all good men prepar'd,</L>
<L>Which &s;hall be their everla&s;ting reward.</L>
<L>Such creditors God will pre&s;erve and keepe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 71. 20.</NOTE> Though they in troubles are plung'd ne're &s;o deepe.</L>
<L>If other creditors were like to thee,</L>
<L>This pri&s;on which is full, would empty be.</L>
<L>The Jayler and his underlings might then</L>
<L>Goe &s;hake their eares, like poore condition'd men.</L>
<L>But in the&s;e dayes we know it to be true,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 57. 1.</NOTE> The number of &s;uch creditors are few.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 18. 25</NOTE> Thou being now thus to thy debtor kinde,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 12. 2,</NOTE> Shalt favour from God thy creditor finde.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 103. 2.</NOTE> Ble&s;&s;e thou the Lord,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 17.</NOTE> for be&s;ides him there's none</L>
<L>That moves men to doe good, but him alone.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Captaine, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>WHen Captaines are &s;urpris'd, and lo&s;e the field,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 4. 2.</NOTE> They then unto the enemy mu&s;t yeeld.</L>
<L>By thy relation,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">h. 11. 69 70.</NOTE> thou ha&s;t beene upon</L>
<L>Hot &s;ervice, which unto thy &s;elfe's be&s;t knowne.</L>
<L>How&s;o'ere thou ha&s;t to danger beene expos'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gen&punc; 40. 3.</NOTE> Thou now art here, within this &s;ort inclos'd.</L>
<L>Brought in by<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5. 15.</NOTE> tho&s;e, who&s;e daily exerci&s;e</L>
<L>Is to endeavour how they may &s;urpri&s;e</L>
<L>And get into their clutches &s;uch brave &s;parkes,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 29. 5. 6.</NOTE> As &s;tudy how to run in debt like &s;harkes:</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 29. 4</NOTE> But take no care their debts to &s;atisfie,</L>
<L>Untill they are put to extremity.</L>
<L><PB N="55" REF="36">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Luk. 12. 58.</NOTE> The Sergeants, when they meet with &s;uch a one,</L>
<L>Although he be a valiant blade, well knowne,</L>
<L>They'le venture on him, be it day or night,</L>
<L>And make him yeeld, although he raile and fight.</L>
<L>And when they have him, they'le make him to know</L>
<L>(Unle&s;&s;e he bribe them well) he mu&s;t needs goe</L>
<L>To pri&s;on, where hee'le want his liberty,</L>
<L>To &s;pend his youthfull dayes in vanity.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 6. 9.</NOTE> The Pri&s;on therefore is the fitte&s;t place</L>
<L>For &s;uch a Captaine, that runs &s;uch a race.</L>
<L>In the&s;e dayes<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Judith 12. 17&punc; 20.</NOTE> that Captaine is counted brave</L>
<L>And valiant, that's<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 81. 12.</NOTE> unto his lu&s;t a &s;lave.</L>
<L>Which lu&s;ts are cau&s;e of much<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 28. 9.</NOTE> unquietne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And unju&s;t quarrels there upon increa&s;e,</L>
<L>Which cannot be appeas'd by friend nor brother,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 28. 11.</NOTE> Untill they &s;tab and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> one another.</L>
<L>Such Captaines doe more hurt at home, then they</L>
<L>Doe good abroad i'th wars, as many &s;ay.</L>
<L>How many likewi&s;e are there at this time</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Judg. 3. 2.</NOTE> That have no skill in marshall di&s;cipline,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 17. 10.</NOTE> And yet they'le brag, as if they dur&s;t to fight</L>
<L>With Sir <HI>Iohn Old <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;tle,</HI> that high flowne Knight?</L>
<L>Their combat<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Pro. 6. 26.</NOTE> is with wenches, when they plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Who wound them &s;orely with the French di&s;ea&s;e.</L>
<L>Many &s;uch young&s;ters (as we under&s;tand)</L>
<L>That never travell'd yet by Sea or Land,</L>
<L>Have by &s;ome meanes procur'd them&s;elves<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Jer. 13. 21.</NOTE> to be</L>
<L>Made Captaines, which can lead a company</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Act. 17. 5.</NOTE> Of &s;wag'ring fellowes, which doe not regard</L>
<L>Their King nor Countrey's good, and yet hazard</L>
<L>Their &s;oules and bodies,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Eph. 4. 19.</NOTE> by &s;pending their dayes</L>
<L>In Tavernes, Bawdy-hou&s;es, and Stage-playes.</L>
<L>So that at la&s;t tho&s;e Souldiers mu&s;t needs fall</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2. 26.</NOTE> Into the Devils hands, their Generall.</L>
<L>Who for their &s;ervice will be &s;ure to give</L>
<L>Them their due wages, when their &s;oules &s;hall live</L>
<L><PB N="56" REF="37">
With him in his<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rev. 16. 10</NOTE> darke kingdome, to remaine</L>
<L>Both<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Rev. 20. 10</NOTE> day and night in everla&s;ting paine.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Chron. 12. 18.</NOTE> Some Captaines are endu'd with excellent parts,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 32. 7.</NOTE> Having couragious under&s;tanding hearts:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 20. 15.</NOTE> The&s;e fight the battle of the Lord on high,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 23. 10.</NOTE> Who gives them often times the victory</L>
<L>Over the enemy, though ne're &s;o &s;trong:</L>
<L>Wherefore<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 98. 1.</NOTE> the glory thereof doth belong</L>
<L>Unto<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 1. 24.</NOTE> the Lord of Ho&s;ts, the God of might,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 68. 35.</NOTE> Who gives them &s;trength,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">&amp; 144. 1.</NOTE> and teacheth them to fight.</L>
<L>Such Captaines as are thus guided by him,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> 3. 3.</NOTE> Shall credit to their King and Country win.</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1 Mac. 4. 23. 24.</NOTE> And when they from the wars returne, they'le ble&s;&s;e</L>
<L>And prai&s;e the Lord,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">1 Macch. 4. 55.</NOTE> that gave them &s;uch &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1 Mac. 3. 59.</NOTE> What if in fight they chance to lo&s;e their lives?</L>
<L>Their lo&s;&s;e is nothing<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Rev. 2. 10.</NOTE> to that glorious prize</L>
<L>Which they &s;hall gaine in heaven, and keepe for ever,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 5. 11.</NOTE> Which prize their Captaine Chri&s;t will them deliver.</L>
<L>If thou art &s;uch a Captaine, then I'le &s;ay,</L>
<L>'Tis pitty thou &s;hould'&s;t in this pri&s;on &s;tay:</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Deut. 8. 11.</NOTE> But rather be in &s;ome imployment, where</L>
<L>Thou may'&s;t have more contentment, and le&s;&s;e care,</L>
<L>Such as are out of &s;ervice, may well be</L>
<L>Mi&s;lead, and &s;o come into mi&s;ery.</L>
<L>How thou cam'&s;t hither, I need not enquire,</L>
<L>But here thou art attended like a Squire,</L>
<L>Where thou ha&s;t got a company that are</L>
<L>A ragged Regiment, mo&s;t fit for war.</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 22. 2</NOTE> Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed men in debt, and in de&s;paire,</L>
<L>With di&s;contented mindes to thee repayre,</L>
<L>Wi&s;hing thou wert their Captaine, and that they</L>
<L>May wait on thee, when thou hence go'&s;t away.</L>
<L>I cannot blame them, for thou art &s;o free</L>
<L>To them, that they could live and dye with thee.</L>
<L>But thou art not yet gone, but here art &s;tay'd,</L>
<L>And &s;o &s;halt be untill thy ran&s;ome's payd.</L>
<L><PB N="57" REF="37">
Thou now art under the command of tho&s;e</L>
<L>That keepe thee fa&s;t, and yet are not thy foes.</L>
<L>The Turn-keyes, and the Book-keepers are they</L>
<L>That thou (although a Captaine) mu&s;t obey.</L>
<L>Yet if thou feed them with good drinke and money,</L>
<L>They'le love thee dearly, as the Bees love honey.</L>
<L>But if thou do&s;t neglect them in that kinde,</L>
<L>No favour thou at all &s;halt from them finde.</L>
<L>But what need'&s;t thou care for their love at all,</L>
<L>Or for their hatred, having wherewithall</L>
<L>Not only to di&s;charge thy chamber rent,</L>
<L>But other things that may yeeld thee content?</L>
<L>Yet let me tell thee, if thou &s;tay here long,</L>
<L>Thou to thy &s;elfe and others may'&s;t doe wrong.</L>
<L>But &s;eeing thou art to this place confin'd,</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t thou art here<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 23. 6.</NOTE> have a couragious minde.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Gal. 5. 17.</NOTE> For here thou art with enemies be&s;et,</L>
<L>As well as in the open field; and yet</L>
<L>Thou can&s;t not them di&s;cerne with mortall eyes,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Eph. 6. 12.</NOTE> Becau&s;e they are thy &s;pirituall enemies.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2. 11</NOTE> Thy &s;oule they doe be&s;iege, which is within</L>
<L>Thy earthly<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 1. 14</NOTE> tabernacle<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Luke 5. 8.</NOTE> full of &s;in.)</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Job 33. 6.</NOTE> Which is &s;o weake and brittle, that unle&s;&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 4. 13</NOTE> Gods holy Spirit doe the &s;ame po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e</L>
<L>And eke defend thee<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Eph. 1. 19.</NOTE> by his mighty power,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Rev. 16. 14</NOTE> Tho&s;e wicked &s;pirits will thy &s;oule devoure:</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Eph. 2. 2.</NOTE> For they are powerfull, and diligent,</L>
<L>Crafty, malicious, and wickedly bent</L>
<L>Again&s;t weak worldlings, which with them accord,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they are not<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Eph. 6. 10</NOTE> &s;trong in Chri&s;t our Lord.</L>
<L>Such though they fight, t'will nothing them availe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Rev. 11. 7.</NOTE> For tho&s;e &s;trong enemies mu&s;t needs prevaile.</L>
<L>Their forces they doe mu&s;ter up each houre,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Mar. 5. 9.</NOTE> To &s;ignifie how they are arm'd with power.</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Rev. 20. 7, 8.</NOTE> It is no worldly &s;trength nor policy</L>
<L>That can with&s;tand their cruell tyranny.</L>
<L><PB N="58" REF="38">
Thou mu&s;t therefore<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Heb. 4. 12.</NOTE> take that two-edged &s;word,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Eph. 6. 17.</NOTE> Which weapon is Gods pure and holy Word:</L>
<L>With that thou may'&s;t be &s;ure, with good directions,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gal. 5. 24.</NOTE> In time to conquer thy corrupt affections.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 16. 32.</NOTE> Which if thou do&s;t, thou then do&s;t &s;uch a feat,</L>
<L>As never did <HI>Alexander</HI> the great.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.</NOTE> So &s;halt thou be, after this life, renown'd,</L>
<L>And with &s;uch like Captaines<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 5. 4.</NOTE> in heav'n be crown'd.</L>
<L>Where thou &s;halt triumph<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 22, 23.</NOTE> with a company</L>
<L>Of heavenly Souldiers,<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 4.</NOTE> with pompe and glory.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXIIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Ma&s;ter of the Pri&s;on.</HEAD>
<L>THou art a Ma&s;ter of the ma&s;terle&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>As al&s;o of poore men here in di&s;tre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>They never &s;uch a Ma&s;ter &s;erv'd before,</L>
<L>When their time's out, they will &s;erve thee no more.</L>
<L>For thou them keep'&s;t &s;o much within, that they</L>
<L>Cannot get leave to goe abroad to play.</L>
<L>And if they could get leave, I dare maintaine,</L>
<L>That &s;ome would ne're finde the way back againe.</L>
<L>Wherefore thou tak'&s;t a cour&s;e<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Acts 16. 23</NOTE> to keepe them fa&s;t,</L>
<L>Where they may worke, or play, and dye at la&s;t.</L>
<L>Thy courte&s;ies to &s;ome are very &s;mall,</L>
<L>And why? becau&s;e they have not wherewithall</L>
<L>To gratifie thy love; which is expre&s;t</L>
<L>By thee to them that are in more reque&s;t.</L>
<L>I meane tho&s;e that are able to requite</L>
<L>Thy love againe, which thou hold'&s;t ju&s;t and right.</L>
<L>The poorer &s;ort of pris'ners that are here</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 23.</NOTE> Cut &s;hort of meanes, doe often &s;tand in feare</L>
<L>Of thy di&s;plea&s;ure, when they cannot get</L>
<L>So much as will them bring out of thy debt.</L>
<L><PB N="59" REF="38">
For if their chamber rent they cannot pay,</L>
<L>Thou them remov'&s;t into the Hole, where they</L>
<L>Have low&s;ie lodging, yet they live more quiet,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they are provided with good diet.</L>
<L>There they al&s;o &s;it rent free: yet before</L>
<L>They are releas'd, they mu&s;t pay their old &s;core.</L>
<L>But if in pri&s;on they &s;hould chance to dye,</L>
<L>Thou lo&s;e&s;t all, and ha&s;t no remedy.</L>
<L>Tho&s;e that lodge on thy &s;ide thou do&s;t regard</L>
<L>A little more then us of the Knights Ward.</L>
<L>I know no rea&s;on for't, unle&s;&s;e it be</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they pay more for their drinke then we.</L>
<L>The Rats and Mice are thy be&s;t gue&s;ts we know,</L>
<L>For after one nights lodging they mu&s;t goe</L>
<L>Away from hence, if they their fees can pay,</L>
<L>If not, they then are forc'd longer to &s;tay.</L>
<L>Thou art a ma&s;ter of a<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 27. 16.</NOTE> wicked crew,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Acts 8. 3.</NOTE> As well as of &s;ome men hone&s;t and true.</L>
<L>This place a receptacle is for all,</L>
<L>Both good and bad, the poore, rich, great and &s;mall.</L>
<L>Some for their mi&s;demeanours, &s;ome for debt,</L>
<L>So that all's fi&s;h that comes into thy net.</L>
<L>Of which thou mak'&s;t a purcha&s;e, and thereby</L>
<L>'Tis knowne thou<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 13. 11. &amp; 22. 1.</NOTE> get'&s;t more wealth then hone&s;ty.</L>
<L>Thy &s;ervants often times doe take large fees,</L>
<L>Which they dige&s;t, as Rats dige&s;t old chee&s;e.</L>
<L>They care not how men &s;uffer,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jer. 17. 11:</NOTE> &s;o they gaine</L>
<L>Meanes indirectly,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 10. 2.</NOTE> their pride to maintaine.</L>
<L>The ma&s;ter and his men, for ought I know,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 24. 2.</NOTE> Are all alike, they may together goe.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 1.</NOTE> Gods poore&s;t &s;ervant's in a better ca&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">John 3. 10.</NOTE> Then &s;uch a ma&s;ter, that's in &s;uch a place.</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t within thy &s;elfe unruly gue&s;ts,</L>
<L>And tho&s;e are<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 5.</NOTE> thine affections, which witne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Unto thy<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Rom. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> 15.</NOTE> con&s;cience, which one day will be</L>
<L>(When thou think'&s;t lea&s;t) a witne&s;&s;e again&s;t thee.</L>
<L><PB N="60" REF="39">
If thou therefore &s;eeke not in the meane while</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Gal. 5. 24.</NOTE> To over-ma&s;ter them, which are &s;o vile,</L>
<L>They'le over-ma&s;ter thee, and &s;uddenly</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6. 9</NOTE> Will bring thy &s;oule into great mi&s;ery.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Amos 5. 11</NOTE> By poore men in great want thou ha&s;t thy gaine,</L>
<L>And liv'&s;t thereby in plea&s;ure, they in paine;</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jam. 2. 6. Pro. 14. 20.</NOTE> Regarding them no more, nay not &s;o much</L>
<L>As Dogs and Cats, that are unlike to &s;uch.</L>
<L>Thou this one day wilt be forc'd to remember,</L>
<L>When 'tis too late,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 21. 13.</NOTE> if thou art not more tender</L>
<L>Over poore pris'ners that are here committed,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 29. 7.</NOTE> Which certainly de&s;erve much to be pittied.</L>
<L>Wherefore if thou Gods favour would'&s;t enjoy,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Acts 16. 33, 34.</NOTE> Shew favour to the&s;e men without delay.</L>
<L>Then<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Col. 4. 1.</NOTE> God thy ma&s;ter<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 25. 8.</NOTE> will thee teach, and guide</L>
<L>Thee in the way to heav'n,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eph. 2. 19.</NOTE> where Saints abide.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXV.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Merchant, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>A Merchant when he once begins to faile&punc;</L>
<L>Is like a Ship at Sea without a &s;aile,</L>
<L>Which flotes upon the waters, and is to&s;t</L>
<L>And tumbled up and downe, untill &s;he's lo&s;t.</L>
<L>In thy declining time thou knew'&s;t not whither</L>
<L>To goe; &s;o that the Sergeants brought thee hither.</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 27. 34</NOTE> And now thy trading and thy credit too</L>
<L>Is lo&s;t; and here thou know'&s;t not what to doe.</L>
<L>For in times pa&s;t, tho&s;e with whom thou ha&s;t walk'd.</L>
<L>Upon th'Exchange, and there of bu&s;ine&s;&s;e talk'd,</L>
<L>Perceiving how thou wa&s;t oft times mole&s;ted</L>
<L>Becau&s;e of lo&s;&s;es, and of Bills prote&s;ted,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 19. 4.</NOTE> Doe leave thee now in mi&s;ery in this place,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 12. 8&punc; 9&punc;</NOTE> As if before they ne're had &s;eene thy face.</L>
<L><PB N="61" REF="39">
The friend&s;hip of &s;uch friends is like a bubble,</L>
<L>Soone got, &s;oone lo&s;t,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 37. 4.</NOTE> and be&s;t di&s;cern'd in trouble.</L>
<L>In former time<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 17. 13.</NOTE> thy bus'ne&s;&s;e was &s;o great,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 31. 1</NOTE> That thou could'&s;t &s;carce finde time to eate thy meat.</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 31. 3</NOTE> Thou then had&s;t trouble, which did vex thy minde:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. 3.</NOTE> Thou now ha&s;t troubles of another kinde.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 39. 6.</NOTE> Thou then wa&s;t troubled how to get much wealth;</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 9, 10.</NOTE> Thy troubles now may be for thy &s;oules health.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Mar. 4. 19.</NOTE> How carefull wa&s;t thou then for outward things,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Luke 10. 41, 42. Eph. 1. 3.</NOTE> And carele&s;&s;e how to get inward ble&s;&s;ings?</L>
<L>Before th'Exchange bell rang, thou had&s;t a care</L>
<L>To keepe touch with tho&s;e that &s;hould meet thee there.</L>
<L>But when thy Pari&s;h Bels did ring all in,</L>
<L>Thou mad'&s;t no ha&s;t to'th Church, to pray or &s;ing,</L>
<L>Or<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">John 8. 47.</NOTE> heare Gods Word,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">&amp; 1. 1. 3.</NOTE> which is that &s;pirituall light</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 55. 2, 3. P&s;al. 119 162&punc; 172.</NOTE> And joy, wherein thy &s;oule &s;hould take delight:</L>
<L>But with that<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">John 6. 33</NOTE> heav'nly food<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 43. 22. Ezek. 33. 31.</NOTE> thou wa&s;t &s;oone cloy'd&punc;</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Luke 8. 14,</NOTE> Becau&s;e thy minde was otherwi&s;e imploy'd;</L>
<L>Wherefore<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Pro. 3. 12.</NOTE> God for thy good, without all que&s;tion,</L>
<L>Hath brought thee hither, to give thee correction.</L>
<L>For he hereby will make thee<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Job 6. 24. P&s;al. 19. 12.</NOTE> under&s;tand</L>
<L>How thou art out of ca&s;h, and behinde hand</L>
<L>With him thy heav'nly creditor above&punc;</L>
<L>Who&s;e<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Rom. 15. 5. P&s;al. 117. 2.</NOTE> patience thou ha&s;t found, out of his love</L>
<L>In<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 39. 13</NOTE> &s;paring thee &s;o long, who might require</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 34 P&s;al. 130. 3.</NOTE> In ju&s;tice, all thou ow'&s;t him, in hell fire.</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 40. 12</NOTE> For when thou ha&s;t made up thy great account,</L>
<L>The foot or ballance thereof will amount</L>
<L>Unto<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 24</NOTE> ten thou&s;and Talents, which mu&s;t be</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Deut. 27. 25.</NOTE> All &s;atisfi'd before thou can&s;t be free.</L>
<L>And yet of that great &s;umme thou mu&s;t needs &s;ay,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 25 2 Cor. 3. 5.</NOTE> Thou ha&s;t not of thy &s;elfe one Mite to pay.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 24. 16. 1 Tim 1. 15. James 3. 2.</NOTE> The holy'&s;t man that lives mu&s;t needs confe&s;&s;e</L>
<L>His debt to be &s;o much, it can't be le&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>How then is Gods great Ju&s;tice &s;atisfi'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Col 2. 14. Rom. 5. 6. 8.</NOTE> But by his Son, our Lord, who for us dy'd?</L>
<L><PB N="62" REF="40">
If thou unto thy &s;oule can&s;t this apply</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rom. 3. 22.</NOTE> Through faith in Chri&s;t,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pet. 2. 21</NOTE> that he for thee did dye.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 15. 3</NOTE> And that thereby thy &s;innes are all remitted&punc;</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Col. 1, 20. 21. 22.</NOTE> Gods Ju&s;tice &s;atisfi'd, and thou acquitted.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 1. 10.</NOTE> Not only from the puni&s;hment that's due</L>
<L>Unto thee for thy &s;ins, but will renue</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Job 33. 26</NOTE> His favour to thee, whereby thou may&s;t know</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Heb. 8. 10.</NOTE> Thou art i'th Covenant of grace al&s;o.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Phil. 1. 27 1 Pet. 2. 12.</NOTE> Thy outward carriage then will &s;oone expre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Thy inward faith, and joy, in thy di&s;tre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Pro. 3. 21, 22, 23.</NOTE> Thy life a comfortable life will be,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Joh. 12. 24</NOTE> When thou the fruits of thy troubles &s;halt &s;ee</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 17 Gal. 5. 22. 23.</NOTE> Thus to produce &s;uch rare effects, which will</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 10.</NOTE> Advance thy knowledge, and teach thee &s;uch skill</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 55. 2.</NOTE> In heavenly wares, and merchandi&s;e &s;o rare</L>
<L>As in Gods Word is found out ev'ry where.</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Joh. 5. 39.</NOTE> Goe to that heav'nly Magazine, and &s;ee</L>
<L>What<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Rom. 11. 33.</NOTE> rich commodities are there<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">&amp; 9. 23.</NOTE> for thee.</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mat. 13. 45, 46.</NOTE> A Merchant that found there a Pearle by name,</L>
<L>Sold all that e're he had to buy the &s;ame.</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Job 28. 16. 17.</NOTE> Such Jewels, Pearles, and Trea&s;ures there are, which</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 3.</NOTE> Are hid from worldlings, be they ne're &s;o rich.</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Joh. 8. 44.</NOTE> For they had rather trade with that old Lyer.</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Rev. 12. 9.</NOTE> That cheating Merchant, who&s;e chiefe&s;t de&s;ire</L>
<L>Is to put off<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Gal. 5. 19, 20, 21.</NOTE> his ba&s;e commodities</L>
<L>To tho&s;e his chapmen, at too high a prize.</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;&s;. 2. 10.</NOTE> His wares are fal&s;e, his Jewels counterfeit,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 11. 3</NOTE> Yet like a crafty Broker, hee'le &s;oone get</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 20.</NOTE> Some of his cu&s;tomers with him to trade.</L>
<L>Whom, when with them a bargaine he hath made,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Mat. 48. 9.</NOTE> Such ba&s;e conditions he will tye unto,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mar. 8 36.</NOTE> As will their &s;oules and bodies quite undoe.</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 King 21. 25.</NOTE> When they are in his debt&punc; hee'le make them pay</L>
<L>To th'utmo&s;t farthing,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Rev. 18. 8.</NOTE> and ju&s;t at the day</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Acts 13. 10.</NOTE> When he's in their debt, then will he be &s;ure</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Luke 16. 24.</NOTE> To pay them &s;oundly,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">&amp; v. 26.</NOTE> which they mu&s;t endure.</L>
<L><PB N="63" REF="40">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 22. 13</NOTE> Such cruell payments he will make, that they</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Jude 11. Wi&s;. 5. 7, 8&punc; 9.</NOTE> Shall rue the time that they e're knew his way.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 15</NOTE> That way of &s;in that causeth death, which is</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Rev 20. 14</NOTE> The &s;econd death,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">&amp; 9. 6.</NOTE> that living death to his</L>
<L>Unhappy chapmen, who &s;hall be together</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 41</NOTE> With him tormented in hell fire for ever.</L>
<L>Wherefore, let me advi&s;e thee to take heed,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5. 11.</NOTE> Thou trafficke not with him, nor with his &s;eed.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 1. 9</NOTE> But follow thou that calling which will bring</L>
<L>Thee in great credit with thy Lord and King:</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 23.</NOTE> That great accomptant, who will reckon right</L>
<L>With his poore debtors, to give them a fight</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Job 13. 23.</NOTE> Not only of their &s;in,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Eccles 8. 6.</NOTE> and mi&s;erie,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Num. 14. 18. P&s;al. 103. 11.</NOTE> But al&s;o of his infinite mercy.</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">1 John 3. 24.</NOTE> When thou art vers'd thus in this heav'nly way,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Mark 8. 34</NOTE> Thou wilt thy &s;elfe deny,<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Deut. 30. 8.</NOTE> and him obey.</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Jer. 3. 15.</NOTE> Thy iudgement then will be &s;o rectifi'd,</L>
<L>As thou wilt not at all<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Phil. 1. 28. 1 Pet. 4. 12.</NOTE> be terrifi'd</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 112. 7 Pro. 3. 24.</NOTE> At any thing that may befall thee here,</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Phil. 3. 14. 20.</NOTE> Becau&s;e thy cour&s;e t'wards heav'n thou do&s;t now &s;teere.</L>
<L>Where being once arrived, and a&s;cended,</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 23.</NOTE> Thy joyes begin,<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21. 4.</NOTE> and thy &s;orrowes are ended.</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 7. 33.</NOTE> Thy mi&s;eries then thou mu&s;t here leave behinde,</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Rom. 9. 23 P&s;al&punc; 36. 5.</NOTE> And Gods great mercies there be &s;ure to finde.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="26" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXVI.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the merry man, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<L>R&mdash;Emember thou,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Eccles 7. 4</NOTE> that art &s;o merry here,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 6.</NOTE> Thou doe not in this place any man jeere.</L>
<L>I&mdash;t<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 1. 22.</NOTE> will not well become thee to doe &s;o:</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 3. 11</NOTE> For here thou &s;hould'&s;t better things learn and know.</L>
<L>C&mdash;ivill and hone&s;t<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Neh. 8. 12. Eccles 8. 15. Luke 15. 23.</NOTE> mirth I grant i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> good,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Eccles 7. 4. Eph. 5. 4.</NOTE> But fooli&s;h mirth belongs to <HI>Robin-hood.</HI></L>
<L><PB N="64" REF="41">
H&mdash;ere in pri&s;on,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 13. Jam. 4. 9.</NOTE> vaine mirth &s;hould be abhorr'd:</L>
<L>When thou art merry,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 104. 34. Acts 16. 25. James 5. 13.</NOTE> be merry in the Lord.</L>
<L>A&mdash;nd<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gen. 43. 34</NOTE> then thy mirth &s;hall not others di&s;plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Which being true, thou may'&s;t live more at ea&s;e.</L>
<L>R&mdash;emember<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 24. 22</NOTE> how in pri&s;on now thou art,</L>
<L>Which &s;hould in &s;ome &s;ort touch thee to the heart.</L>
<L>D&mdash;oe not therefore in this place take delight</L>
<L>= With tho&s;e that make<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 17. 12.</NOTE> night day, and the day night,</L>
<L>L&mdash;iving more like<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 12, 13.</NOTE> bruit bea&s;ts, then civill men,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 5. 29.</NOTE> Roaring like Lions in their na&s;ty den.</L>
<L>A&mdash;s for<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Pro. 28. 19.</NOTE> &s;uch company, doe not frequent</L>
<L>For they will leave thee when thy money's &s;pent.</L>
<L>N&mdash;ece&s;&s;ity may then<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Amos 8. 10 Ecclus 11. 27.</NOTE> quite over-throw</L>
<L>Thy vaine delights,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 13 E&s;a. 24. 7, 8, 9.</NOTE> and all thy mirth al&s;o.</L>
<L>E&mdash;ndeavour<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Eccles 3. 4.</NOTE> therefore, whil'&s;t thou art in ca&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Eccles 8. 15. &amp; 9. 7.</NOTE> To be merry and wi&s;e<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Gen. 31. 27.</NOTE> out of this place.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXVII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To a worthy charitable Knight.</HEAD>
<L>W&mdash;hen<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job. 5. 17. Pro. 3. 12. P&s;al. 119. 71. P&s;al. 94 12.</NOTE> God his children brings into di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>His love to them is ne're a whit the le&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>I&mdash;am a man<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 29. 2, 3.</NOTE> which in times pa&s;t have beene</L>
<L>Of credit good,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 11, 12.</NOTE> though now in no e&s;teeme.</L>
<L>L&mdash;ittle<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 29. 18 P&s;al. 30. 6.</NOTE> did I thinke in tho&s;e dayes to be</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 30. 16. 29.</NOTE> Brought to &s;o low an ebbe, as now I &s;ee.</L>
<L>L&mdash;ike<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Job 16. 20.</NOTE> <HI>Iob</HI> am I now &s;corn'd, full well I know,</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e whom I have<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 41. 9.</NOTE> fed, and cloath'd al&s;o.</L>
<L><HI>I&mdash;ob</HI> on the<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Job 2. 8.</NOTE> dunghill did God glorifie,</L>
<L>More then he did in his pro&s;perity.</L>
<L>A&mdash;nd if with<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 4. &amp; 5. 11.</NOTE> patience God doth me endue,</L>
<L>Then after cro&s;&s;es comforts will en&s;ue.</L>
<L>M&mdash;y<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eccles 3. 21 &amp;c 2. 17.</NOTE> &s;oule to God &s;hall have acce&s;&s;e in &s;ea&s;on,</L>
<L>= Although the pri&s;on of my &s;oule's in pri&s;on.</L>
<L><PB N="65" REF="41">
B&mdash;efore I felt Gods hand,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 20.</NOTE> friends I had many:</L>
<L>But now<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 38. 11. P&s;al. 35. 14.</NOTE> I am in want, I have not any.</L>
<L>A&mdash;ll tho&s;e that<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 35. 12.</NOTE> courte&s;ies from me receiv'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 12. 8.</NOTE> I tooke to be my friends, but was deceiv'd.</L>
<L>G&mdash;reat<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 6. 8.</NOTE> was their &s;hew of love to me, as friends:</L>
<L>All which was but to worke on me their ends.</L>
<L>W&mdash;hen<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Gen. 40. 23. Pro. 19. 7. Ecclus. 6. 8. 12.</NOTE> I occa&s;ion have tho&s;e friends to u&s;e</L>
<L>In my di&s;tre&s;&s;e, they doe me now refu&s;e.</L>
<L>E&mdash;xceeding glad &s;hould I be, if I knew</L>
<L>Where to change all tho&s;e old friends<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 King. 4. 2. Ecclus. 6. 14.</NOTE> for one new:</L>
<L>L&mdash;ibertie then &s;hould I have to<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">2 King. 4. 7.</NOTE> begin</L>
<L>The world againe, and &s;ome old debts get in.</L>
<L>L&mdash;ive &s;hould I then,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6. 8. P&s;al 4. 7. Pro 15. 16.</NOTE> though with a little &s;tore,</L>
<L>= More happily than ere I did before.</L>
<L>T&mdash;he<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eccles. 5. 13 16. 17.</NOTE> greate&s;t meanes which God to man hath lent,</L>
<L>Without his ble&s;&s;ing yeelds no true content.</L>
<L>O&mdash;h, how<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6. 17, 18, 19.</NOTE> happy and ble&s;&s;ed is, and &s;hall</L>
<L>= That rich man be, that's<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ecclus. 37. 24. &amp;</NOTE> wi&s;e, and<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">40. 17. Pro. 11. 25.</NOTE> liberall&punc;</L>
<L>S&mdash;ir, I'le crave no exce&s;e,<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Pro. 12. 17.</NOTE> the truth to tell,</L>
<L>You are that<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 21:</NOTE> happy man, 'tis known full well.</L>
<L>I&mdash;ts likewi&s;e knowne in City and Country,</L>
<L>Your chiefe delight's in workes of<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Pro. 28. 17. Acts 10 31. 3 John 6.</NOTE> Charity.</L>
<L>R&mdash;eligious<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 9. 12, 13.</NOTE> men, the<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Job. 29. 15, 16.</NOTE> poore, the blinde, the lame,</L>
<L>= The<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Neh. 7. 70. Hag 1. 8. 14. Ezra 5 2.</NOTE> Church, the<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">King 20.</NOTE> Common-wealth, witnes the &s;ame.</L>
<L><HI>P&mdash;aul,</HI> that &s;weet<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Acts 9. 15.</NOTE> cho&s;en ve&s;&s;el of the Lord,</L>
<L>If he were here your deeds he might record.</L>
<L>A&mdash;ll<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Luk. 12. 42. &amp; 16 10.</NOTE> Stewards ju&s;t, as you are, may be &s;ure</L>
<L>In heav'n to live with Chri&s;t and Angels pure.</L>
<L>V&mdash;arietie of<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21. 19.</NOTE> &s;weet delights, with<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 6 11.</NOTE> plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Are there, where you have laid up &s;afe your<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 20.</NOTE> trea&s;ure.</L>
<L>L&mdash;arge and exceeding<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21. 16. John 14. 2.</NOTE> &s;pacious is that place,</L>
<L>= Yet is the<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 7 14.</NOTE> gate &s;o &s;trait, that in no ca&s;e</L>
<L>P&mdash;roud<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">m. 4. 6.</NOTE> men,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 9. 23 J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">m 5. 1.</NOTE> and rich worldlings that have no care</L>
<L>But of<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Luk. 12. 18&punc; 19, 20, 21.</NOTE> this life, &s;hall have an entrance there.</L>
<L>I&mdash;f &s;uch men would by you<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Phil 3. 17.</NOTE> example take,</L>
<L>The&s;e worldly<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Eccles. 1. 14. Gal. 5. 26.</NOTE> vanities they would for&s;ake.</L>
<L><PB N="66" REF="42">
N&mdash;o money would they<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Luk 15. 13.</NOTE> &s;pend, &s;o much in vaine,</L>
<L>Nor<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 28. 27</NOTE> &s;pare it from &s;uch as in want remaine.</L>
<L>D&mdash;oubtle&s;&s;e, the charitable man, that<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Deut. 15. 7, 8. P&s;. 112. 5.</NOTE> lends</L>
<L>To &s;uch as want,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Luk 6. 35.</NOTE> Chri&s;t will make full amends.</L>
<L>A&mdash;nd after death, eternall<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 12. 9.</NOTE> joyes hee'll finde</L>
<L>Leaving a<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 22. 1.</NOTE> good, and ble&s;&s;ed name<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 112. 6. Ecclus. 37. 26. &amp; 42. 13.</NOTE> behinde.</L>
<L>R&mdash;eceive good Sir, the&s;e poore lines in good part</L>
<L>From him that lies here<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 10.</NOTE> grieved at the heart.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="28" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXVIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To an ancient Maid, a true-hearted friend, that
was mindfull of him in his troubles.</HEAD>
<L>IN<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 71. 20&punc;</NOTE> my great troubles &s;ome great friends<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">&amp; 119. 141</NOTE> de&s;pis'd me,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Acts 27. 3.</NOTE> When little friends, with little things reviv'd me.</L>
<L>U&mdash;pon the Lord<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Cant. 5. 16.</NOTE> (my greate&s;t friend)<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 50. 15.</NOTE> I'le call,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 41. 10.</NOTE> Who can me rai&s;e up friends both great and &s;mall.</L>
<L>L&mdash;ong<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 99. 46.</NOTE> have I been in this place terrifi'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 7.</NOTE> Where I both great, and little friends have try'd.</L>
<L>I&mdash;mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Job. 19. 14.</NOTE> that not one friend of twenty</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">John 3. 17.</NOTE> Have their love &s;hew'd to me, though they have plenty.</L>
<L>A&mdash;<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Pro. 17. 17.</NOTE> true friend I, thee ever found to be:</L>
<L>Thy<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Luk. 21. 3.</NOTE> widowes mite, accepted is by me.</L>
<L>N&mdash;ever &s;hall &s;uch<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Luk. 10. 39&punc; 42.</NOTE> good Chri&s;tians as thou art,</L>
<L>= <NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1. 4.</NOTE> Want comfort, when they are griev'd at the heart.</L>
<L>I&mdash;keepe my chamber<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 30.</NOTE> in a pri&s;on, where</L>
<L>I often am<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 9 9.</NOTE> oppre&s;s'd with griefe and care:</L>
<L>A&mdash;nd thou likewi&s;e thy chamber art con&s;train'd</L>
<L>Oft times to keep, by rea&s;on thou art<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 9. 3.</NOTE> maym'd.</L>
<L>M&mdash;any &s;uch<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 33.</NOTE> pris'ners God hath in his keeping,</L>
<L>Whom he<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;&punc; 3. 3. P&s;. 116. 6.</NOTE> pre&s;erves, and keeps,<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5. 10&punc;</NOTE> waking &amp; &s;leeping.</L>
<L>E&mdash;ndeavour therefore,<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 12.</NOTE> whil'&s;t thou art alive,</L>
<L>In godly vertues<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> The&s;. 4. 1.</NOTE> more and more to thrive.</L>
<L>S&mdash;o<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l. 6. 14. 1 John 2&punc; 15.</NOTE> &s;halt thou then this world for&s;ake, and love&punc;</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Cant. 1. 2. 3&punc;</NOTE> To be with thy &s;weet Bridegroome,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Phil. 1. 23.</NOTE> Chri&s;t, above.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="29" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="67" REF="42">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXIX.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his intimate friend, a divine Lawyer.</HEAD>
<L>I&mdash;Uells<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 13. 46</NOTE> exceeding rich, are wondrous rare:</L>
<L>Which is the onely cau&s;e &s;o few them weare.</L>
<L>E&mdash;very<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 8. 17. Wi&s;d. 6. 12.</NOTE> one that's wi&s;e, may &s;eeke and finde</L>
<L>In Gods Word Juels plea&s;ing to his minde.</L>
<L>P&mdash;recious<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 3. 15. Job 28. 16, 18.</NOTE> Juels, which men weare on their clothes,</L>
<L>Are not at all to be compar'd with tho&s;e.</L>
<L>H&mdash;ee<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 4. 8, 9&punc;</NOTE> that's &s;tor'd with &s;uch Juels, mu&s;t needs be</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mal. 3. 7.</NOTE> Him&s;elfe a Juell, 'tis knowne<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Acts 6 10.</NOTE> thou art he.</L>
<L>S&mdash;uch<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 37. 12.</NOTE> as thy company doe oft frequent,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Pro. 1. 5.</NOTE> May learne of thee to be wi&s;e and prudent.</L>
<L>O&mdash;h<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 6. 36</NOTE> that I were thy Scholler, but untill</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 6. 37.</NOTE> I had learn'd &s;ome more of thy divine skill!</L>
<L>N&mdash;o<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Pro. 16. 16.</NOTE> worldly thing &s;hould my minde away draw</L>
<L>= From that which thou can&s;t teach out of Gods Law.</L>
<L>J&mdash;f other<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Luke 11. 46.</NOTE> Lawyers were like thee in this,</L>
<L>So many cau&s;es would not goe ami&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>U&mdash;nto<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Acts 18. 24.</NOTE> <HI>Apollo</HI> thou may'&s;t fitly be</L>
<L>Compar'd, if I am not deceiv'd in thee.</L>
<L>E&mdash;xercis'd<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Neh. 8. 8. 2 Tim. 2. 15.</NOTE> thou art in a work begun,</L>
<L>At which Divines will<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 18</NOTE> wonder when 'tis done.</L>
<L>L&mdash;et<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 24. 22, 36.</NOTE> nothing hinder thee at all to end it,</L>
<L>For when 'tis done, I think there's none can mend it.</L>
<L>L&mdash;abour<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">2 Mac. 2. 26, 27.</NOTE> to perfect it, though it be hard;</L>
<L>Then God<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Col. 1. 29.</NOTE> (who&s;e worke it is)<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 58. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 1 Cor. 3. 8.</NOTE> will thee reward.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="68" REF="43">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXX.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the poore old man, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I Grant, old man, thy ca&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 38. 19.</NOTE> May be here much lamented:</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 38. 20.</NOTE> Yet be not thou &s;till out of heart,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4. 11.</NOTE> But &s;trive to be contented.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 22. 2&punc; Pro. 22. 6.</NOTE> To men thou art indebted,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 22. 27.</NOTE> Which debts thou can&s;t not pay,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 30</NOTE> And therefore they detaine thee here,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 6. 7.</NOTE> Which grieves thee day by day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Con&s;ider how<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 57. 11. Col. 3. 7.</NOTE> thou ha&s;t</L>
<L>A long time liv'd in &s;in,</L>
<L>And<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 5. 7.</NOTE> yet deferr'&s;t thy repentance.</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Jer. 7. 3.</NOTE> Though late, yet now begin.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 25. 7.</NOTE> Thy youthfull time doubtle&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t &s;pent very ill:</L>
<L>And yet in the&s;e thy latter dayes</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Deut. 32. 18.</NOTE> forget God &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 33. 10.</NOTE> Although thou him forget,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 21. 24.</NOTE> Yet he doth thee remember;</L>
<L>By laying this<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 71. 9.</NOTE> great cro&s;&s;e on thee,</L>
<L>That art<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 13</NOTE> a great offender.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By which meanes<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 33. 12. Ho&s;. 5. 15. P&s;al. 119 71.</NOTE> thou art brought&punc;</L>
<L>His will to under&s;tand:</L>
<L>And that all tho&s;e<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 40. &amp; 115. 9.</NOTE> that tru&s;t in him&punc;</L>
<L>Shall have his helping hand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="69" REF="43">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 33. 13.</NOTE> Let then this pri&s;on be</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 48. Act. 16. 25.</NOTE> Thy place of meditation</L>
<L>Of heav'nly things, that are above,</L>
<L>To thy great con&s;olation.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 2. 15</NOTE> And then thou wilt contemne</L>
<L>All worldly things below:</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 63. 1. Phil. 1. 23.</NOTE> And long to be with Chri&s;t above,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 35. 10.</NOTE> Free'd from all griefe and woe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 34</NOTE> Wait then upon the Lord,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Job 9. 19. P&s;al. 24. 8.</NOTE> Who mighty is and &s;trong.</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 90. 10</NOTE> Thou know'&s;t by cour&s;e of nature, that</L>
<L>Thou can&s;t not here live long.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 41. 2 &amp; 30. 17.</NOTE> And when by death thou art</L>
<L>Free'd from all mi&s;ery;</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Luk. 23. 43</NOTE> Thou then in heav'n above &s;halt live</L>
<L>With Chri&s;t eternally.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="31" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXXI.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Women which are pri&s;oners in
the Hole.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>YOu of the female kinde,</L>
<L>Which in the Hole doe lye</L>
<L>For debt, or for &s;ome other cau&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 37. 1</NOTE> Your friends now you may try.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 1.</NOTE> If you ill hu&s;wives have</L>
<L>Beene heretofore, now know</L>
<L>That you confin'd are to a place,</L>
<L>From which you cannot goe,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="70" REF="44">
<L>Untill your peace be made</L>
<L>With tho&s;e who laid you in</L>
<L>This place,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 7, 8. 1 King. 17. 18.</NOTE> where you may call to minde</L>
<L>How you have liv'd in &s;in.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Amos 3. 2.</NOTE> For which cau&s;e God hath brought</L>
<L>You into troubles hither,</L>
<L>Where you, like Pigs, are penn'd up clo&s;e,</L>
<L>All in a Sty together.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Job 24. 7.</NOTE> Yet though your lodging be</L>
<L>So clo&s;e, where you together</L>
<L>Are forc'd upon the ground to lye,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 25. 4.</NOTE> Yet need you feare no weather:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I meane i'th winter nights,</L>
<L>The &s;ea&s;on being cold,</L>
<L>And &s;ubject to much<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 4. 6.</NOTE> raine and &s;tormes</L>
<L>Then you are in your hold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">John 18. 18</NOTE> by a fire warme</L>
<L>You &s;it and chat i'th night,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Acts 12. 6.</NOTE> Untill you fall a&s;leepe, and then</L>
<L>You re&s;t with &s;mall delight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But in the Summer time,</L>
<L>The weather being hot,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 32. 4.</NOTE> You then are much annoy'd, becau&s;e</L>
<L>Contentment you have not.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But in both &s;ea&s;ons, you</L>
<L>Throughout the yeare<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 146. 7.</NOTE> have diet</L>
<L>For you provided, which &s;hould make</L>
<L>You in your hole<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 3. 4.</NOTE> live quiet.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You in like manner have</L>
<L><PB N="71" REF="44">
For your &s;oules health provided</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rom. 10. 8</NOTE> Good &s;pirituall food, to cheere you up,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Luk. 1. 79. P&s;al. 119. 5.</NOTE> If you'le thereby be guided.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To which heav'nly repa&s;t</L>
<L>You are daily invited,</L>
<L>And if good gue&s;ts you are, then you</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 119. 16.</NOTE> Therewith will be delighted.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 5. 24.</NOTE> But if you cannot well</L>
<L>That food di&s;ge&s;t, then think</L>
<L>Your &s;oules are &s;ick, they'le pine away,</L>
<L>Then mu&s;t you needs downe &s;inke</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Into<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Rev. 20. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> the hole that hath</L>
<L>No bottome, where are none</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Rev. 20. 3&punc; 10.</NOTE> But Devils and their damned crue,</L>
<L>Where none &s;hall you bemone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some comfort you have here</L>
<L>But none &s;hall you have there;</L>
<L>For<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Rev. 20. 10&punc;</NOTE> day and night<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">&amp; 19. 20.</NOTE> brim&s;tone and fire</L>
<L>Shall be your daily fare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;d. 3. 11.</NOTE> Thus 'twill then with you be,</L>
<L>That now here doe not love</L>
<L>To heare, reade, pray, and meditate</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 2.</NOTE> On heavenly things above.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 50. 22</NOTE> Thinke on the&s;e things, while you</L>
<L>Are in this place re&s;train'd</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 5. 13.</NOTE> From go&s;&s;ipping with tho&s;e, which now</L>
<L>Your company have refrain'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Pro. 6. 13.</NOTE> And now your mindes give not</L>
<L>To idle toyes at all,</L>
<L><PB N="72" REF="45">
Neither doe you at any hand</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5. 13.</NOTE> With one another brawle.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 17. 14</NOTE> But &s;hun vaine<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Eccles 10. 11. 1 Tim. 6. 20.</NOTE> babbling, and</L>
<L>Good<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 13. 3. &amp; 21&punc; 23. Jam. 3. 5.</NOTE> tongues keepe in your heads,</L>
<L>That when you goe from hence, you may</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 57. 2.</NOTE> Lye warme in your owne beds.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Heb. 10. 36</NOTE> Be not impatient, as</L>
<L>The mo&s;t part of you are</L>
<L>In troubles, for then are you like</L>
<L>Untun'd &s;trings, which doe jarre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Rom. 12. 12</NOTE> But take all in good part,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5. 9.</NOTE> Grudge not at any thing,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 3. 18</NOTE> But what&s;oe're the Lord now &s;ends,</L>
<L>Receiv't with<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 10. 4</NOTE> thank&s;giving.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And if your elder, which</L>
<L>Is Lady of your Hole,</L>
<L>Hath in that place &s;ome power o're you,</L>
<L>To rule or to controle,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Eccles 10. 4</NOTE> In &s;ome &s;ort you mu&s;t yeeld</L>
<L>To her authority,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Pro. 21. 19.</NOTE> Or el&s;e &s;he'le chide and &s;cold, &s;o that</L>
<L>You'le live unquietly.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 5.</NOTE> Much better t'is for you</L>
<L>At home to be, then here,</L>
<L>For here goodne&s;&s;e is hardly learn'd</L>
<L>Which may cau&s;e you to feare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 102. 37.</NOTE> pray unto the Lord,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 3.</NOTE> That he your guide may be,</L>
<L>You to direct in &s;uch a cour&s;e,</L>
<L><PB N="73" REF="45">
As that you may be free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And when you are hence gone,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">. 3. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Take heed you come no more</L>
<L>Into this place, left you the time</L>
<L>Be forc'd here to deplore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 7. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> But lead an hone&s;t life,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 12. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">.</NOTE> And &s;erve God every day,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Luke 16. 22, 25.</NOTE> Then after death your &s;oules will he</L>
<L>Receive to live in joy.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="32" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXXII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the impatient Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THou that into<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> this place art brought,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Jer. 37. 20.</NOTE> Though much again&s;t thy will,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 1.</NOTE> Fret not thy &s;elfe, nor angry be</L>
<L>With tho&s;e that wi&s;h thee ill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 6. 1, 2 Jude 9.</NOTE> Raile not again&s;t thy Creditors,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 28.</NOTE> Though cruell they may be,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Rom. 12. 14</NOTE> Nor yet again&s;t the officers,</L>
<L>That fir&s;t laid hands on thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Sam 7. 14. P&s;al. 89. 30&punc; 31, 32.</NOTE> For they are not the onely cau&s;e</L>
<L>Of thy calamity,</L>
<L>They are thy<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Lam. 1. 5. &amp; 5. 16. Ezra 9. 13. E&s;ay 59&punc; 12. 2 M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">c 7. 32.</NOTE> &s;ins again&s;t the Lord</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Gen. 18. 20</NOTE> That for vengeance doe cry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 40 Rom. 5. 1.</NOTE> Make then thy peace with God above,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1. 21, 22. Rom. 8. 34.</NOTE> Put in &s;ecurity,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Rom. 20. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> 25.</NOTE> Or el&s;e into a wor&s;e pri&s;on,</L>
<L>Thy &s;oule &s;hall carried be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="74" REF="46">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 11. 28</NOTE> Go then to Chri&s;t,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">E&s;a&punc; 43. 11 &amp; 63. 3. 1 Cor 3. 11.</NOTE> there's none but he,</L>
<L>And he will not deny</L>
<L>To be thy bayle, and make thee<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gal. 4. 7. 31 &amp; 5. 1. John 8. 36. Acts 4. 12.</NOTE> free</L>
<L>Of heav'n, that is &s;o high.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus having made thy<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 22. 21 Col. 1. 20.</NOTE> peace with God,</L>
<L>Thy minde will be at re&s;t,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Deut. 28. 10</NOTE> Then he will worke thy peace with men,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 37. Rom. 8. 28.</NOTE> And turne all to the be&s;t.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="33" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXXIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To a Pri&s;oners wife of a refractory condition.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>ONe<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 22 Ecclus 26. 1.</NOTE> of the chiefe&s;t ble&s;&s;ings that</L>
<L>In this life God doth give</L>
<L>Unto a man, a good wife is,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 26. 2.</NOTE> With him his time to live.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou art no ble&s;&s;ing, but a cur&s;e,</L>
<L>That art a<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 27. 15</NOTE> froward wife</L>
<L>To thy poore husband that here lyes</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 3. 21. &amp; 7. 15.</NOTE> Quite weary of his life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 25. 13.</NOTE> What greater cro&s;&s;e can happen to</L>
<L>An hone&s;t quiet minde,</L>
<L>Then to be match'd to &s;uch a wife</L>
<L>As proves to him unkinde?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>E&s;pecially here in this Jayle,</L>
<L>A place of mi&s;ery,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 13</NOTE> Where he no quietne&s;&s;e can have,</L>
<L>Thou art &s;o refractory.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Job 29. 5, 6 Tob. 1. 13, 14.</NOTE> In former time when he had meanes</L>
<L><PB N="75" REF="46">
To keepe thee in good fa&s;hion,</L>
<L>Thou then did'&s;t feare and flatter him,</L>
<L>And dur&s;t not be in pa&s;&s;ion.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 15. 25.</NOTE> But now the Lord hath humbled him,</L>
<L>And brought him to di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 7. 10. Tob. 2. 14.</NOTE> Thy love from him is drawne away,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 32. 10.</NOTE> And thou art growne carele&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Judg. 15. 1</NOTE> If thou from him be long ab&s;ent,</L>
<L>He cannot it abide,</L>
<L>And when thou com'&s;t to vi&s;it him,</L>
<L>Thou then with him do&s;t<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">1. 19. Ecclus 25. 20.</NOTE> chide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now be thou pre&s;ent or ab&s;ent,</L>
<L>His griefe is not a&s;&s;wag'd,</L>
<L>The more he &s;eekes for quietne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 9. 13. &amp; 21. 19.</NOTE> The more thou art enrag'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 4. 3.</NOTE> So that thou add'&s;t affliction to</L>
<L>Affliction in this kinde,</L>
<L>Which is the greate&s;t cro&s;&s;e of all,</L>
<L>And troubleth mo&s;t his minde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 12.</NOTE> When God permitted Satan to</L>
<L>Afflict <HI>Iob,</HI> that<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 1.</NOTE> ju&s;t man,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 14, 15.</NOTE> His &s;ub&s;tance fir&s;t he tooke away,</L>
<L>Thus with him he began.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 17.</NOTE> Then the Chaldeans he provok'd</L>
<L>His &s;ervants all to &s;lay,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Job 1&punc; 18, 19.</NOTE> And after that likewi&s;e did he</L>
<L>His children take away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Job 2. 7.</NOTE> Then with great Botches and &s;ore Boiles</L>
<L>His body he did &s;mite,</L>
<L><PB N="76" REF="47">
So that on him he exercis'd</L>
<L>His malice and his &s;pite.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And yet the Devill, for all that,</L>
<L>Did &s;eeme to favour him,</L>
<L>In leaving of his wife behinde,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 26. 13.</NOTE> That might him comfort bring.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But that was not that Tempters drift,</L>
<L>It was his policy</L>
<L>To &s;tir her up him to per&s;wade</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 2. 9.</NOTE> To bla&s;pheme God and dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus <HI>Iob</HI> in his adver&s;ity</L>
<L>Was vex'd and troubled &s;ore,</L>
<L>By his untoward<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Job 2. 10.</NOTE> fooli&s;h wife,</L>
<L>Who then<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 19. 17.</NOTE> did him abhorre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Eccles 7. 28</NOTE> Such wives there are too many now,</L>
<L>There's one the more for thee,</L>
<L>For thy conditions doe not much</L>
<L>With <HI>Iobs</HI> wife's di&s;agree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 25. 16.</NOTE> If thou continu'&s;t in this cour&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 26. 27.</NOTE> To chide, &s;cold, chafe, and fret,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e of the&s;e great troubles, then</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t thy &s;elfe forget;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For thou<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Gen. 2. 18.</NOTE> a helpe was made to be</L>
<L>To thy husband di&s;tre&s;s'd,</L>
<L>And not an in&s;trument to<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 4. 2.</NOTE> increa&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="j" PLACE="marg">Pro. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">. 22. Job <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 13.</NOTE> His griefe, that's thus oppre&s;s'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wherefore con&s;ider with thy &s;elfe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Job 2. 10.</NOTE> How thou God do&s;t offend,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1&punc; The&s;. 3. 3.</NOTE> By being thus di&s;quieted</L>
<L><PB N="77" REF="47">
At that which he doth &s;end.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Lam. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 13, 14.</NOTE> All cro&s;&s;es, wha&s;oe're they are,</L>
<L>God &s;ends,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 71. 20 E&s;ay 51. 22.</NOTE> and takes away:</L>
<L>Therefore<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Su&s;anna 35</NOTE> put thou thy tru&s;t in him,</L>
<L>And<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5. 22, 24.</NOTE> thy husband obey.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then though in pri&s;on he now be,</L>
<L>Where he doth much lament,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 40. 17</NOTE> Yet God will &s;oone deliver him,</L>
<L>And give you both content.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now when thou ha&s;t him home againe,</L>
<L>Provide him whol&s;ome diet,</L>
<L>With all things el&s;e to his con&s;ent,</L>
<L>And with him live in<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 3. 4. Ecclus 26. 14.</NOTE> quiet.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="34" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXXIIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his owne dejected comfortle&s;&s;e Wife.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>MY<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 107. Lam. 3: 1.</NOTE> troubles I confe&s;&s;e are great,</L>
<L>Which I here doe endure,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Acts 21. 13</NOTE> But thy great di&s;content withall</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Job 19. 2.</NOTE> Makes them almo&s;t<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jer. 30. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">21</NOTE> pa&s;t cure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I grant it is out of thy love,</L>
<L>Thou art thus griev'd for me,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Eph. 3. 13.</NOTE> Yet if thou lov'&s;t me, be not &s;o,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e my griefe's for thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 42. 5. Pro. 12. 25. Ecclus 30. 21.</NOTE> Ca&s;t not thy &s;elfe downe I thee pray,</L>
<L>But<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 145. 24. E&s;ay 51. 6. 2 Cor. 7. 6.</NOTE> look up with thine eyes</L>
<L>To him that's<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Tob. 3. 2.</NOTE> ju&s;t and mercifull,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 57. 15.</NOTE> Who reignes above the skies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="78" REF="48">
<L>For he is<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Gen. 17. 1.</NOTE> all-&s;ufficient,</L>
<L>He<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 33. 20 E&s;t. 14. 3. Ecclus 2. 6. 2 Mac. 15. 7.</NOTE> helpe will &s;end one day,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 34. 18.</NOTE> When we of it think lea&s;t, therefore</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 39. 13 Pro. 24. 10. Ezek) 33. 10.</NOTE> Pine not thy &s;elfe away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Mac. 6. 16.</NOTE> Although things fall out ne're &s;o cro&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And breed within thy minde</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 33, 34. E&s;a. 54. 6.</NOTE> Much griefe and &s;orrow, yet beleeve</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 63. 3. Ecclus 2. 11.</NOTE> The Lord is wondrous kinde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For if with<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Rom. 12. 12. 2 The&s;. 1. 4. Jam. 5. 7, 8.</NOTE> patience we can both</L>
<L>The&s;e cro&s;&s;es undergoe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Pro. 16. 7.</NOTE> Our enemies he'le make our friends,</L>
<L>Which we &s;hall &s;ee and know.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Baruch 4. 29.</NOTE> God never &s;ends adver&s;ities</L>
<L>To tho&s;e whom he doth love,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 2. 6. E&s;ay 54. 8.</NOTE> But for each cro&s;&s;e ten thou&s;and joyes</L>
<L>He'le give to them above.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Mar. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">0. 30</NOTE> here below we may be &s;ure</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 51. 12. Nahum 1. 7.</NOTE> The Lord will comfort &s;end</L>
<L>To &s;uch as are in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Pro. 2. 7. 2 E&s;d. 16. 19.</NOTE> If they their lives amend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Joh. 9. 2, 3.</NOTE> The&s;e troubles which we now are in,</L>
<L>Came not to us by chance,</L>
<L>But by the providence of God,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">John 11. 4</NOTE> His glory to advance.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 2. 4.</NOTE> Why &s;hould'&s;t thou then impatient be:</L>
<L>Do&s;t think'tis for thine ea&s;e?</L>
<L>Oh no!<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Jer. 50. 24.</NOTE> thou &s;triv'&s;t again&s;t the &s;treame</L>
<L>And do&s;t the Lord di&s;plea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wilt thou be like tho&s;e<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 6.</NOTE> women, which</L>
<L><PB N="79" REF="48">
Are<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">V. 7.</NOTE> ever learning, and</L>
<L>Although they reade and heare much, yet</L>
<L>Doe nothing under&s;tand?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How can thy<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 3. Heb. 6. 12. 1 Pet. 1. 7.</NOTE> faith and patience be</L>
<L>In this life exercis'd;</L>
<L>But in<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 3. 11.</NOTE> afflictions which God layes</L>
<L>On thee, that art<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job. 12. 5. P&s;al. 22. 6. Pro. 11. 12. 1 Cor. 4. 10.</NOTE> de&s;pis'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job&punc; 12. 4. P&s;al. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> 23. 4. 1 Cor. 4. 13.</NOTE> What if thou art &s;corn'd and di&s;grac'd,</L>
<L>And not at all e&s;teem'd</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Luk. 12. 19. &amp; 16. 19, 25.</NOTE> Of tho&s;e that have their heav'n on earth&punc;</L>
<L>Yet<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 14. Rev. 5. 9.</NOTE> Chri&s;t hath thee redeem'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Luke 12. 27, 28.</NOTE> What if thou want'&s;t apparell now,</L>
<L>Thy body to keepe warme?</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Rom. 13. 14.</NOTE> Chri&s;t is thy garment, put him on.</L>
<L>Hee'le keepe thee from all harme.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Mat. 4. 2. Luke 16. 21. &amp; 6. 21. Luke 12. 24. &amp; 1. 53.</NOTE> What if thou want'&s;t good dyet now,</L>
<L>Thy belly to &s;upply?</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">John 6. 35, 48.</NOTE> Chri&s;t is thy food, feed on him then,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Rev. 7. 16&punc;</NOTE> Thy &s;oule hee'le &s;atisfie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 4. 11</NOTE> What if thou want'&s;t a dwelling place,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Pro. 1. 33.</NOTE> Where thou would'&s;t faine abide?</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 5. 1. Heb. 11. 10, 16.</NOTE> Chri&s;t he thy dwelling hath prepar'd,</L>
<L>In heaven that's<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21. 16.</NOTE> large and wide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mar. 14. 50.</NOTE> What if thou want'&s;t in thy di&s;tre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Some friends to<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 20</NOTE> comfort thee?</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">John 14. 16 17, 18. Acts 5. 32.</NOTE> The holy Gho&s;t the Comforter,</L>
<L>Thy Comforter will be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What if<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Job 19. 14</NOTE> thy kindred be unkinde,</L>
<L>And doe now quite neglect thee?</L>
<L><PB N="80" REF="49">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 12. 50</NOTE> Thy kin&s;man Chri&s;t is worth them all,</L>
<L>Heare him, and he'le re&s;pect thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 51. 7. Luke 6. 22.</NOTE> What if thy name be &s;candaliz'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 13.</NOTE> Which makes thee &s;ad to looke?</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 17. 22. 2 Cor. 7. 4.</NOTE> Be merry &s;till, rejoyce, becau&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Luk. 10&punc; 20 Phil. 4. 3. Rev. 3. 5.</NOTE> 'Tis written in Gods Booke.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 34. 9.</NOTE> What if thou want'&s;t all other things,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Job 21. 9. 13.</NOTE> Which worldlings doe enjoy?</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 3. 22&punc; 23.</NOTE> If thou ha&s;t Chri&s;t, thou ha&s;t all things,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 32. Col. 3. 11.</NOTE></L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 28. 20</NOTE> He's with thee night and day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 3. 17</NOTE> What if I want my liberty,</L>
<L>And am here<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 8<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, 8.</NOTE> &s;hut up fa&s;t&punc;</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">9. 32.</NOTE> My heart is free to run abroad,</L>
<L>And &s;hall<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Mat. 11. 29.</NOTE> finde re&s;t at la&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 66. 14.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 7. 5. &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 8. &amp; 11. 23. &amp;c. 2 Tim. 3. 12.</NOTE> Gods deare&s;t children are mo&s;t cro&s;t</L>
<L>In this life ev'ry way,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Acts 14. 22&punc;</NOTE> Becau&s;e through troubles they mu&s;t goe</L>
<L>To heav'n, 'tis their be&s;t way.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 2.</NOTE> The more they &s;uffer in this world,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Acts 9. 16.</NOTE> The more God is their friend,</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5. 11, 12. p&s;al. 36&punc; 8&punc;</NOTE> The more their joy in heav'n &s;hall be,</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Joh. 10. 28.</NOTE> The which &s;hall never end.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 2. 9.</NOTE> Such joyes as never mortall man</L>
<L>E're in his heart conceiv'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Luke 12&punc; 32</NOTE> The Lord to his afflicted ones.</L>
<L>Hath certainly bequeath'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Mar. 9. 23.</NOTE> Such as beleeve this to be true,</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 18&punc;</NOTE> Will not at all regard&punc;</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. 26</NOTE> The troubles of this wicked world</L>
<L><PB N="81" REF="49">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Wi&s;d. 3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> Con&s;idering their reward.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 88. 3. 6.</NOTE> if hell were the way to heav'n,</L>
<L>Such as the Lord doth guide,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 4. 12.</NOTE> Would pa&s;&s;e through all tho&s;e fiery flames</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21. 3.</NOTE> With him there to re&s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 17.</NOTE> Thus God for temporall cro&s;&s;es gives</L>
<L>Eternall joyes to &s;uch,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 12. 10 Gal. 6. 14.</NOTE> As cheerfull are under the cro&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Gal. 2. 20. Eph. 3. 19.</NOTE> Chri&s;ts love to them is much.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 23 2 Pet. 2. 9.</NOTE> He knowes be&s;t what is be&s;t for us,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 8.</NOTE> Yet &s;ome &s;o &s;imple be,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 71. Heb. 12. 10.</NOTE> When God corrects them for their good</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 7. 13.</NOTE> Away from him they flee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Deut. 8. 5. Jam. 1. 12. Heb. 12. 6.</NOTE> A token of Gods love it is,</L>
<L>To &s;uch as can<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5. 11. 2 Tim. 4. 5. Heb. 12. 7.</NOTE> endure,</L>
<L>All manner of afflictions here,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 34. 15</NOTE> Such are in his eyes pure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now &s;eeing<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Pro. 3. 12. Rev. 3. 19.</NOTE> God &s;o loveth us,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Jer. 31. 3. John 13. 1.</NOTE> And will &s;o love us &s;till,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mat. 10. 38</NOTE> Why &s;hould we not in troubles be</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Deut. 4. 30&punc; 31.</NOTE> Obedient to his will?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Job 2. 10. Ecclus 2. 4.</NOTE> Take all things therefore in good part,</L>
<L>Let not thy minde be griev'd</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 51. 3, 4.</NOTE> For nothing but thy &s;ins alone,</L>
<L><NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Jer. 33. 8.</NOTE> So &s;halt thou be reliev'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 7. 10</NOTE> godly &s;orrow bringeth joy</L>
<L>Unto thy &s;oule, I know,</L>
<L>But<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 7. 10 Pro. 17. 22. Ecclus 30. 23. &amp; 38. 18.</NOTE> worldly &s;orrow worketh death,</L>
<L>'Twill be thy overthrow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="82" REF="50">
<L>Wherefore take heed, give over quite</L>
<L>All<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 21. 21 Luke 12. 29.</NOTE> doubtings and di&s;tru&s;t</L>
<L>Of Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance in due time,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1. 18, 20. Heb. 6. 13.</NOTE> he's &s;ure and ju&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 30. 5. Su&s;anna 35.</NOTE> But put thy confidence in him,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Deut. 5. 29. Acts 15. 7.</NOTE> His holy Word beleeve,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Su&s;anna 44</NOTE> And thou e're long &s;halt finde that thou</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 112 4. Ecclus 2. 10. Su&s;anna 60.</NOTE> Shalt have no cau&s;e to grieve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 7.</NOTE> And if on him we doe depend,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 4. 18</NOTE> We &s;hall not need to feare,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 51. 11 John 16. 20.</NOTE> Our &s;orrowes he'le turne into joy,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> E&s;d. 8. 45 E&s;t. 16. 21.</NOTE> Which we &s;hall &s;ee mo&s;t cleare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And though in this place now I am</L>
<L>Where I can get no bayle,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 42. 7. Acts 7. 10.</NOTE> Yet Chri&s;t will &s;oone deliver me</L>
<L>Out of this noy&s;ome Jayle.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Joel 2. 26</NOTE> Then &s;hall we have ju&s;t cau&s;e to prai&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 5. 7.</NOTE> The Lord for his great care,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 28</NOTE> Which he hath had, and &s;till will have</L>
<L>Of us every where.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 6. 2, 3</NOTE> And doubt not but we &s;hall againe</L>
<L>With comfort live together,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 107. 28, 29.</NOTE> For after the great &s;tormes are pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Then commeth the calme weather.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4. 11.</NOTE> Be thou i'th meane time well content,</L>
<L>Attend, and<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 27. 14</NOTE> wait Gods lea&s;ure,</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 21. 2. Pro. 10. 24.</NOTE> So &s;halt thou have thy hearts de&s;ire,</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 32&punc;</NOTE> And live alwayes in plea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="35" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="83" REF="50">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXXV.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his Maid-&s;ervant.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHen thou cam'&s;t fir&s;t to dwel with me</L>
<L>About twelve yeares agoe,</L>
<L>When I in Fanchurch &s;treet did live,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 23. 5. Gen. 33. 9.</NOTE> My cup did overflow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since which time<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 29. 12.</NOTE> many have thereof</L>
<L>Dranke freely at their plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>So that with that<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Tob. 1. 20.</NOTE> which hath been &s;pilt,</L>
<L>There's nothing left to mea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 33. 20.</NOTE> Tho&s;e that the greate&s;t part thereof</L>
<L>Should have had at that time,</L>
<L>Had the lea&s;t &s;hare thereof, although</L>
<L>I was then in my prime.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 30. 14.</NOTE> The Cup although it empty be,</L>
<L>Yet is it whole and &s;ound,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jer. 31. 25.</NOTE> And may againe repleni&s;h'd be,</L>
<L>And not fall to the ground.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Job 13. 15&punc;</NOTE> What&s;o'ere God now unto me &s;ends,</L>
<L>My minde is truly bent</L>
<L>It to receive with thank&s;giving,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Phil. 4. 11, 12.</NOTE> And be therewith content.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The troubles which thou know'&s;t I have</L>
<L>In thy time long endur'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 65. 3.</NOTE> A purge have beene to my &s;ick &s;oule,</L>
<L>Which is not yet quite cur'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="84" REF="51">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 16. 6.</NOTE> This purge doubtle&s;&s;e will do much good</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Joel 3. 21.</NOTE> It hath not yet done working</L>
<L>Upon &s;ome humours ill, which yet</L>
<L>In my poore &s;oule lye lurking.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 103. 3</NOTE> The great Phy&s;itian of our &s;oules</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jer. 10. 24.</NOTE> Doth temper with great skill</L>
<L>The potions which he gives to tho&s;e</L>
<L>His patients that are ill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Jer. 30. 11.</NOTE> Tho&s;e that he takes in hand to cure,</L>
<L>Although they feele much paine,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 71. 20</NOTE> Shall have much ea&s;e at length, and be</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Jer. 30. 17.</NOTE> Re&s;tor'd to health againe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In this great Doctors hands have I</L>
<L>Beene<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 34. 19</NOTE> long, and am &s;o &s;till,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 3. 18.</NOTE> Let him doe what he plea&s;e to me,</L>
<L>I'le &s;ubmit to his will.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When God his &s;courge laid fir&s;t on me,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 10.</NOTE> I tooke it &s;o to heart,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 107. 27</NOTE> That then my &s;en&s;es all from me.</L>
<L>Did for a time depart.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Job 7. 5.</NOTE> So irk&s;ome 'twas unto the fle&s;h,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 2. 2</NOTE> So tedious to my minde,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Job 7. 15. &amp; 10. 1.</NOTE> So grievous to my &s;oule, that then</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Joh. 10. 20 Lam. 1. 17.</NOTE> No comfort I could finde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A fit of melancholy great,</L>
<L>Thou know'&s;t I likewi&s;e had,</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 55. 5.</NOTE> And being then with griefe o'rewhelm'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"></NOTE> I thereupon grew mad.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="85" REF="51">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 32. 31.</NOTE> The Lord then left me for a time,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 12, Mar. 5. 13.</NOTE> And gave the Devill leave</L>
<L>To tempt me in &s;uch grievous &s;ort,</L>
<L>That I then did conceive</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Rom. 7. 24.</NOTE> My &s;elfe to be the wretched'&s;t man</L>
<L>That e're liv'd on the earth:</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 14.</NOTE> And being thus in minde di&s;tre&s;s'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 3. 1.</NOTE> Cur&s;t the day of my birth.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My &s;ins then to my &s;ight were brought</L>
<L>By the<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Eph. 2. 2.</NOTE> Prince of the ayre,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 5. 8.</NOTE> Who did endeavour what he could</L>
<L>To bring me to de&s;paire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I then per&s;waded was by him</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Acts 16. 27</NOTE> My &s;elfe to make away,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Acts 16. 28</NOTE> And if God had not me pre&s;erv'd,</L>
<L>It had beene done that day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such was my<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Job 30. 26.</NOTE> wofull mi&s;ery,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Jer. 30. 15.</NOTE> Which &s;eem'd to me pa&s;t cure,</L>
<L>I would not for a thou&s;and worlds</L>
<L>The like againe endure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All troubles &s;ince, and tho&s;e which now</L>
<L>I have, put all together,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Job 6. 2, 3.</NOTE> Are in compari&s;on of tho&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 4. 17</NOTE> As light as any feather.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And yet to<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12. 13</NOTE> fle&s;h and bloud are they</L>
<L>Full heavy to be borne,</L>
<L>By rea&s;on<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Job 18. 3.</NOTE> I am counted as</L>
<L>A creature that's forlorne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><PB N="86" REF="52">
The troubles all which I have had,</L>
<L>In thy time thou ha&s;t &s;eene,</L>
<L>And with much di&s;content ha&s;t thou</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rev. 1. 9.</NOTE> A fellow feeler beene:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ruth 1. 16.</NOTE> Yet would'&s;t thou not from me then goe,</L>
<L>Thy mi&s;tris knowes full well,</L>
<L>Though thou preferment might'&s;t have had,</L>
<L>Yet thou with us would'&s;t dwell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thine eyes may &s;ee<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 10. 15.</NOTE> how poverty</L>
<L>Hath us now overtaken,</L>
<L>Yet &s;uch hath beene thy love, as yet</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t not us for&s;aken.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay though thou &s;ee&s;t<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 17. 15.</NOTE> the &s;mall hope we</L>
<L>Have to get meanes againe,</L>
<L>Yet thou &s;o con&s;tant art, that &s;till</L>
<L>With us thou do&s;t remaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now what the cau&s;e thereof is, mu&s;t</L>
<L>Be to thy &s;elfe be&s;t knowne,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 17. 17</NOTE> Yet hath thy love herein appear'd,</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t it truly &s;howne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What can&s;t thou now from us expect?</L>
<L>If longer thou &s;hould'&s;t &s;tay,</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t needs think<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ruth 2. 12.</NOTE> thy recompence</L>
<L>Mu&s;t come &s;ome other way.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 John 1.</NOTE> If it out of thy love be to</L>
<L>My children, which are now</L>
<L>With thee i'th Country with our friends,</L>
<L>I then will make a vow,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="87" REF="52">
<L>That if the Lord e're &s;end me meanes</L>
<L>To bring me out of trouble,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 2. 6</NOTE> I'le not of thee unmindfull be,</L>
<L>But will requite thee double.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be kinde and loving &s;till to them</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt fare ne're the wor&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ruth 4. 16</NOTE> And have a care of my &s;onne <HI>Will,</HI></L>
<L>For thou wa&s;t his dry Nur&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His favourite thou art I know,</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t in him delight,</L>
<L>And he cannot endure that thou</L>
<L>Should'&s;t be out of his &s;ight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A faithfull &s;ervant thou ha&s;t beene,</L>
<L>Thou need'&s;t not be a&s;ham'd</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 35.</NOTE> Before thy betters to appeare&punc;</L>
<L>Though I am to be blam'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Rev. 2. 10.</NOTE> Be faithfull to the end, and thou</L>
<L>Some<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 14. 14.</NOTE> change &s;halt &s;ee no doubt,</L>
<L>Though &s;ome<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 14.</NOTE> at my misfortunes doe</L>
<L>In the&s;e dayes<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Baruth 4. 31. Ecclus 7. 11.</NOTE> &s;coffe and flout.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And though<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 60. 1.</NOTE> the Lord hath us di&s;pers'd,</L>
<L>And &s;catt'red to and fro,</L>
<L>So as we cannot as we would</L>
<L>One to another goe:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 15. 4.</NOTE> Yet if in troubles we can put</L>
<L>Our tru&s;t in him alone,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 57. 13.</NOTE> Hee'le us againe together bring,</L>
<L>To live in peace at home.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="88" REF="53">
<L>If not at home here in this life,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. 16</NOTE> Yet hee'le for us provide</L>
<L>In heaven a place farre better, where</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. 17</NOTE> We &s;hall be glorifi'd.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="36" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXXVI.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the unruly young man, a Pri&s;oner&punc;</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IF<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 13. 18</NOTE> thou had'&s;t beene by thy friends rul'd,</L>
<L>Thou had'&s;t not now beene here;</L>
<L>But &s;eeing thou this cour&s;e ha&s;t run,</L>
<L>E're long it will appeare,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That tho&s;e whom thou did&s;t not regard,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 32.</NOTE> they thee then blam'd,</L>
<L>Will now for thy unruly tricks</L>
<L>Leave thee here to be tam'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If thou art like<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 32. 9<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> the hor&s;e, that will</L>
<L>Not ruled be a whit,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jam. 3. 3.</NOTE> Untill into his mouth be put</L>
<L>The Bridle, or the Bit;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then this place &s;hall a Bridle be,</L>
<L>Now for to keepe thee under,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 18. 12.</NOTE> But thou a bit wilt &s;ometimes want,</L>
<L>To &s;atisfie thy hunger.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If thou here now<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5. 14.</NOTE> unruly art,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt then have the wor&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>For thou wilt in the hole be put,</L>
<L>And there be &s;oundly purs'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="89" REF="53">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Jer&punc; 5. 3.</NOTE> And if this place will not thee mend,</L>
<L>Thy friends then may conclude,</L>
<L>That thou wilt ne're be good, untill</L>
<L>Thou like a Hawke art mew'd,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;hut up clo&s;e, where thou may&s;t not</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 18. 31.</NOTE> Have things at thine owne will,</L>
<L>That thou thereby in time may'&s;t leave</L>
<L>Thy rudene&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 4. 4.</NOTE> and be &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 3. 26.</NOTE> For now the more unquiet thou</L>
<L>In pri&s;on art, beleeve,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 3. 27.</NOTE> The more will be thy mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>Which will thy heart much grieve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e things therefore con&s;ider well,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 13. 16&punc;</NOTE> Shew not thy &s;elfe &s;o idle,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 5.</NOTE> In giving way to thine owne will,</L>
<L>But thine affections bridle.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And then thy friends, when they &s;hall heare</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 78. 34</NOTE> And &s;ee thee thus reclaim'd,</L>
<L>They'le then beleeve thou ha&s;t much lo&s;t,</L>
<L>By which lo&s;&s;e thou ha&s;t gain'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For having lo&s;t thy &s;tubborne fits,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Pro. 17. 20.</NOTE> Which brought thee into trouble,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 14. 4.</NOTE> Gods love thou ha&s;t obtain'd, &s;o that</L>
<L>Thy gaine is more then double.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Acts 24. 23</NOTE> Thy liberty likewi&s;e &s;halt thou</L>
<L>Get, if the Lord &s;ee't fit,</L>
<L>How e're<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 37 7.</NOTE> re&s;t thou on him, and then</L>
<L>E're long thou &s;halt be quit,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="90" REF="54">
<L>And freed out of this place, where thou</L>
<L>Ha&s;t beene curb'd of thy will,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 73. 24</NOTE> And be at length receiv'd to joyes,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 16. 11</NOTE> Where thou &s;halt have thy fill.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="37" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXXVII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Pri&s;oners, called by the name of Mice, which are
light hu&s;wives that are taken at unlawfull houres
in the night by the Watch, and brought
to Pri&s;on.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>YOu<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 26. 25.</NOTE> that a &s;hame to women are,</L>
<L>That mode&s;ty have none,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 7. 11, 12.</NOTE> Why wander you &s;o late abroad,</L>
<L>When you &s;hould be at home?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What is your bus'ne&s;&s;e at &s;uch houres</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 7. 9, 10</NOTE> I'th night, when you &s;hould &s;leep?</L>
<L>No rea&s;on you at all can give,</L>
<L>Why you &s;uch houres keepe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For if you could have &s;atisfi'd</L>
<L>The Con&s;table, who did</L>
<L>Examine you about the &s;ame,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 5.</NOTE> Which you know is forbid,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He had not brought you to this place,</L>
<L>Away you might have gone</L>
<L>Home to your hou&s;es, but here now</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 3. 18.</NOTE> You mu&s;t &s;ing a new &s;ong.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This pri&s;on is no place for you,</L>
<L>You mu&s;t not long here &s;tay,</L>
<L><PB N="91" REF="54">
For he that brought you in, is bound</L>
<L>To carry you away</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 King. 3. 16.</NOTE> Before the next Ju&s;tice of peace,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 20. 19.</NOTE> Where you your tale mu&s;t tell,</L>
<L>And if he like it not, then he</L>
<L>Will &s;end you to Bridewell:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where entertainment you &s;hall have,</L>
<L>For when you are let in,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 23. 28, 29.</NOTE> The Blew-cotes will take you a&s;ide,</L>
<L>And whip your tender skin.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 7. 24.</NOTE> Now when your parents fond &s;hall heare,</L>
<L>How you are thus corrected,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 22. 3.</NOTE> They'l then bethink them&s;elves with grief</L>
<L>How they have you neglected.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 22. 4</NOTE> For when untoward Girles you were,</L>
<L>Which made them di&s;contented,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 22. 15. &amp; 19. 18.</NOTE> If they had whipt you &s;oundly then,</L>
<L>This might have beene prevented.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now it is too late for them</L>
<L>For this thing to repent,</L>
<L>As 'tis too &s;oone for you to be</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Pro. 7. 13.</NOTE> So vile and impudent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet is it not too late for you</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Acts 3. 19.</NOTE> To repent and amend,</L>
<L>Which if you doe, then certainly</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Acts 3. 20. John 15. 14.</NOTE> The Lord will &s;tand your friend;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 54. 4.</NOTE> And bring you out of this di&s;grace,</L>
<L>Into which you are run,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 36. 31.</NOTE> And likewi&s;e give you grace, that you</L>
<L><PB N="92" REF="55">
The&s;e wicked wayes may &s;hun:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if the Lord &s;hould &s;uffer you</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rom. 6. 12.</NOTE> In &s;in to live, then know</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> John 3. 8.</NOTE> Into the Devils trap at length</L>
<L>You would be &s;ure to goe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such Mice he often times doth catch,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Eph 6. 10.</NOTE> With his deceitfull baites,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 2. 11</NOTE> And like a Cat, both day and night,</L>
<L>For &s;uch Mice hourely waites.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;illy Mouce you know when he</L>
<L>His hole keepes not i'th night,</L>
<L>But in a roome &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">kes up and downe,</L>
<L>Although there be no light.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The watchfull Cat &s;pying this Mou&s;e</L>
<L>I'th darke, without a Candle,</L>
<L>Doth catch it on a &s;udden, which</L>
<L>It doth cruelly handle,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And will not leave this Mou&s;e, untill</L>
<L>She hath it quite de&s;troy'd;</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 7. 27.</NOTE> Thus will the Devill deale with you,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5. 5.</NOTE> That have the wantons playd:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And that like Owles<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 7. 12.</NOTE> will be&punc;abroad,</L>
<L>When others are at re&s;t;</L>
<L>And when 'tis day, like them you doe</L>
<L>Repaire unto your ne&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Owle and other Birds, you know,</L>
<L>Doe live alwayes a&s;under,</L>
<L>And if i'th day &s;he &s;hould be &s;eene,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Birds would at her wonder.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="93" REF="55">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 13. 15.</NOTE> The Owle and other Birds doe not</L>
<L>At all agree together,</L>
<L>And therefore they divided are,</L>
<L>Not being of one feather.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 26. 24.</NOTE> So you that &s;o much differ from</L>
<L>Good wives, that vertuous be,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 16. 49.</NOTE> Your company they mu&s;t needs &s;hun,</L>
<L>With you they'le not agree:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 31. 27.</NOTE> For women that good hu&s;wives are,</L>
<L>That live in reputation,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Gen. 18. 9. Ecclus 25. 25.</NOTE> Will not be gadding, when they &s;hould</L>
<L>Be in their habitation.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Your hou&s;es are your pri&s;ons, that</L>
<L>This cour&s;e of life have taken,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mat. 8. 12.</NOTE> A pri&s;on dark's prepar'd for you,</L>
<L>That have the<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 1. 4.</NOTE> Lord for&s;aken.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Devill &s;hall your Jaylor be,</L>
<L>Hee'le keepe you fa&s;t no doubt,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5. 26.</NOTE> So fa&s;t, that all the friends you haev,</L>
<L>Shall never get you out.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In which dark dungeon you then &s;hall</L>
<L>Live in great mi&s;erie;</L>
<L>Where<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 41</NOTE> Satan with his cur&s;ed crew,</L>
<L>Shall keepe you company.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Pro. 5. 3, 4&punc;</NOTE> Your plea&s;ures then &s;hall &s;urely end,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">V. 5.</NOTE> Your paines &s;hall then begin,</L>
<L>And never end, if you re&s;olve</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 16. 77.</NOTE> To live and dye in &s;in.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="94" REF="56">
<L>Con&s;ider this you &s;hamele&s;&s;e Imps,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 7. 7.</NOTE> Who young fooles doe entice</L>
<L>To wickedne&s;&s;e, for which cau&s;e you</L>
<L>Are hither brought for Mice.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Tit. 2. 4, 5.</NOTE> Be civill, and learne mode&s;ty,</L>
<L>Keepe home,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 55. 7.</NOTE> and quite for&s;ake</L>
<L>Your former evill wicked wayes,</L>
<L>Then<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 38. 14</NOTE> God will undertake</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ezra 9. 13.</NOTE> To keepe you from tho&s;e fearfull plagues</L>
<L>Which you ju&s;tly de&s;erve;</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Job 36. 11</NOTE> And give you joyes in &s;tead of thereof,</L>
<L>If you him duly &s;erve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 10. 12</NOTE> Wherefore delay no time at all,</L>
<L>Your mindes to goodne&s;&s;e give,</L>
<L>That when your bodies here &s;hall dye,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Joh. 17. 24</NOTE> Your &s;oules in heaven may live.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="38" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXXVIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his Mother.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 73. 21</NOTE> have with griefe of heart beene here</L>
<L>Five months and more, 'tis knowne,</L>
<L>And if I here &s;hould be a yeare,</L>
<L>I &s;carce know any one</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 20</NOTE> That would of me take pitty, and</L>
<L>Releeve me in di&s;tre&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>Alas,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Job 35. 9, 10.</NOTE> no friends will under&s;tand</L>
<L>How &s;ome doe me oppre&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="95" REF="56">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 19. 14</NOTE> I am for&s;aken of all tho&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 55. 14</NOTE> That in me tooke delight,</L>
<L>When I liv'd well, and wore good clothes,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Iob 30. 1.</NOTE> But now they doe me &s;light;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> As if a meere &s;tranger I were,</L>
<L>They'le not on me now call,</L>
<L>But doe with one con&s;ent forbeare</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">m. 1. 27.</NOTE> To vi&s;it me at all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Job 19. 13&punc;</NOTE> Friends, kindred, and acquaintance, now</L>
<L>No kindne&s;&s;e will me &s;how,</L>
<L>I thinke they have made all a vow</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 King 14&punc; 26.</NOTE> To leave me here in woe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But that's not all that troubles me,</L>
<L>One thing there is moreover,</L>
<L>That<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Job 30. 25</NOTE> grieves my very heart to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Th'unkindne&s;&s;e of a mother.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Oh that I had no cau&s;e to write,</L>
<L>Or think to my great griefe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 27. 10</NOTE> How you have me neglected quite,</L>
<L>As if I were a theefe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet when I call to minde<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 4. 16</NOTE> the love</L>
<L>That God beares to all &s;uch,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 51. 12</NOTE> As looke for comfort from above,</L>
<L>My minde is ea&s;ed much.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 49. 15</NOTE> Though mothers tender may forget</L>
<L>Their children, captives taken,</L>
<L>Yet God, our Father, will not let</L>
<L>His children be for&s;aken.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="96" REF="57">
<L>Wherefore<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 141. 8</NOTE> my tru&s;t and confidence</L>
<L>Shall be in him alone,</L>
<L>Hoping he will bring me out hence,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 17. 6.</NOTE> Hee'le heare my plaint and mone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 E&s;d. 8. 8.</NOTE> When I nine months was &s;hut up fa&s;t,</L>
<L>In your clo&s;e wombe, you know</L>
<L>The Lord he brought me forth at la&s;t,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Joh, 16. 21.</NOTE> And gave you joy al&s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I then almo&s;t for<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Mac. 7. 27</NOTE> three yeares &s;pace,</L>
<L>Your tender brea&s;ts did &s;uck,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 4. 3.</NOTE> In tho&s;e dayes you did me embrace,</L>
<L>And call'd me pretty Duck.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">John 9. 20</NOTE> I am your &s;onne, deare mother, &s;till,</L>
<L>And &s;hall be till I dye,</L>
<L>Although I am now call'd poore <HI>Will,</HI></L>
<L>Being in mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It is no money that I crave,</L>
<L>Perhaps you have it not,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 3. 8.</NOTE> It is your ble&s;&s;ing I would have,</L>
<L>If it could now be got.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If you once would but &s;end to me,</L>
<L>I know t'would me revive,</L>
<L>I then &s;hould thinke<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 10. 2.</NOTE> your care would be</L>
<L>To know how I did thrive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But how&s;oever 'tis with me,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">3 John 2.</NOTE> My hope is you are well;</L>
<L>And that one day we &s;hall both be</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21. 3.</NOTE> In heav'n, with Chri&s;t to dwell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="97" REF="57">
<L>In the meane &s;pace whil'&s;t I am here,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 66. 1;</NOTE> Let me &s;ome comfort finde,</L>
<L>From you that are my mother deare,</L>
<L>'Twill ea&s;e my troubled minde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why &s;hould &s;uch<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 26. 28</NOTE> flatt'ring friends, that are</L>
<L>I'th Country now about you,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 28. 9</NOTE> Seeke to make you with me to jarre,</L>
<L>That here mu&s;t live without you.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am your &s;onne, they are your friends,</L>
<L>Thinke of them as you plea&s;e:</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 4.</NOTE> They were my friends, for their own ends</L>
<L>When I liv'd more at ea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am per&s;waded in my heart,</L>
<L>If'twere not for that<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 35. 20.</NOTE> crew,</L>
<L>That you would act a mothers part,</L>
<L>And your old love renew.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Your motherly affection then</L>
<L>Would once againe appeare</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 44. 13</NOTE> To me, that am a &s;corne to men,</L>
<L>Now I am &s;hut up here.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If I have not with all re&s;pect</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 23. 22.</NOTE> To you my duty done,</L>
<L>Then I'le confe&s;&s;e a great neglect</L>
<L>In me, your younge&s;t &s;on.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And on my bended knees I'le crave</L>
<L>Pardon of God on high,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Pro. 30. 17.</NOTE> Who will &s;oone bring downe to the grave</L>
<L>Such as the &s;ame deny.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="98" REF="58">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 38. 10.</NOTE> You now are old, and much decay'd</L>
<L>In &s;trength, and otherwi&s;e,</L>
<L>And I in pri&s;on being laid,</L>
<L>Know not how to devi&s;e</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which way to helpe and &s;uccour you,</L>
<L>'Tis not now in my power,</L>
<L>The Lord knowes<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 70. 5.</NOTE> I have much adoe</L>
<L>Here to &s;ub&s;i&s;t an houre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Three children I have of mine owne,</L>
<L>Which I cannot maintaine:</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Mich. 7. 18.</NOTE> But God who is to mercy prone,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14. 26.</NOTE> Hath eas'd me of that paine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 7.</NOTE> For he con&s;idering my di&s;tre&s;&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 72. 4.</NOTE> Hath rais'd them friends, with whom</L>
<L>They live, and have (I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e)</L>
<L>More then they had at home.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 5. 15</NOTE> My wife that's vex'd and &s;orely griev'd,</L>
<L>With me &s;he takes a &s;hare,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 20.</NOTE> For &s;carce one friend hath her releev'd,</L>
<L>Since we have had this care.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Judge now, deere mother, what a ca&s;e</L>
<L>At this time I am in,</L>
<L>If I &s;hould long be in this place,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Job 16. 8.</NOTE> 'Twould make my cheekes look thin.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Heb&punc; 10 24.</NOTE> Think on me then, and let me heare</L>
<L>Some newes from you to morrow,</L>
<L>By &s;ome one of Buckingham&s;hire,</L>
<L>'Twill mitigate my &s;orrow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="99" REF="58">
<L>And let me now, good mother, be</L>
<L>Excus'd, though you may finde</L>
<L>In the&s;e few lines written by me,</L>
<L>Some things again&s;t your minde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 1. 16</NOTE> For out of the abundance of</L>
<L>My great complaint and griefe</L>
<L>I write, (though &s;ome thereat may &s;coffe)</L>
<L>To have &s;ome poore reliefe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus to conclude,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 5.</NOTE> I'le leave all to</L>
<L>My Father that's on high,</L>
<L>For<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 3 6.</NOTE> hee'le direct me what to doe</L>
<L>In this extremity.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be&s;eeching him to<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jam. 4. 6.</NOTE> give us grace</L>
<L>And favour, &s;o that we</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 13. 12.</NOTE> In heav'n may &s;ee him face to face,</L>
<L>When we there &s;hall be free.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="39" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XXXIX.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Pri&s;oner that was to be di&s;charged,
and &s;et at liberty.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IF<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 11. 27.</NOTE> favour thou receiv'&s;t, now thou ha&s;t need</L>
<L>Of<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 24</NOTE> friends or kindred, which thy ca&s;e doe pitie,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gal. 5. 13.</NOTE> Whereby thou may'&s;t out of this place be freed,</L>
<L>And take thy plea&s;ure in Country or City:</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1. 17</NOTE> Make good u&s;e of thy time,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 22. 26.</NOTE> run not in debt,</L>
<L>To live out of<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 22. 7.</NOTE> danger doe not forget.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5. 25.</NOTE> For if the Sergeants take thee once againe,</L>
<L>Unto the Compter gate they will thee bring,</L>
<L><PB N="100" REF="59">
And there thou know'&s;t thou can&s;t not long remaine</L>
<L>The Turn-key hee'le be &s;ure to let them in:</L>
<L>And then the Book-keeper will on ther looke,</L>
<L>And aske thy name to enter't in this Booke.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Chamberlaine likewi&s;e thou then &s;halt &s;ee</L>
<L>With his cleane &s;heets, thee to appoint thy lodging,</L>
<L>And when he to thy chamber hath brought thee,</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t needs pay thy Garni&s;h without dodging,</L>
<L>And when thou art here, thou wilt looke about,</L>
<L>And &s;ay, God helpe me, when &s;hall I get out?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 12. 45.</NOTE> Thy ca&s;e may then be wor&s;e then ever'twas,</L>
<L>And be&s;ides that, all thy be&s;t friends perhaps,</L>
<L>May judge thee to be but an idle A&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 26. 11</NOTE> Thou being fallen into a relap&s;e:</L>
<L>Wherefore take heed,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 1. 10.</NOTE> lewd company refraine,</L>
<L>Le&s;t thou thereby art hither brought againe.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="40" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XL.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To tho&s;e that come to vi&s;it their friends
in Pri&s;on.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>YOu that are<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 36</NOTE> come to vi&s;it your poore friends,</L>
<L>Which in this &s;olitary place doe lye,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 89. 32</NOTE> The Lord<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 71. 20</NOTE> which to us all afflictions &s;ends)</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Acts 10. 4.</NOTE> Takes notice of your workes of charity,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Acts 28. 12</NOTE> If you your helping hand will now them lend,</L>
<L>Your comming then may be to &s;ome good end.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jr. 38. 9.</NOTE> 'Tis hard with them (God knowes) now they are here</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 37. 6.</NOTE> Here they want many things, though you have plenty,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 37. 5.</NOTE> Bread and &s;mall drink oft times is their be&s;t cheere,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 127. 2</NOTE> And many times they &s;leepe with belly empty.</L>
<L><PB N="101" REF="59">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 11. 25 2 Cor. 9. 7.</NOTE> Wherefore take heed, be free, and not hide-bound,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 4. 8</NOTE> But let your friendly love to them be found.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Their debts increa&s;e, by being in this place</L>
<L>Their rent is double, and their charge is great,</L>
<L>Their liberty they want to their di&s;grace,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Job 19. 14</NOTE> Their friends neglect them,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">16. Pro. 19 7.</NOTE> though they them intreat:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 6. 14.</NOTE> If you will undertake among the re&s;t</L>
<L>To helpe them now,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jer. 37. 20. Ecclus 4. 4.</NOTE> doe it at their reque&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 51. 18.</NOTE> For here none will about their bus'ne&s;&s;e goe,</L>
<L>Unle&s;&s;e before hand they be well rewarded,</L>
<L>Which pris'ners cannot doe, that are brought low,</L>
<L>And therefore are &s;o much the le&s;&s;e regarded:</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 4. 5.</NOTE> If you &s;upply their wants now they have need,</L>
<L>You &s;hall performe a charitable deed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Helpe them therefore<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 63. 5.</NOTE> for helpe here they have none,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. 8.</NOTE> Abroad they cannot goe their meanes to get,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 4. 9.</NOTE> And being here, they are much wrought upon,</L>
<L>So that in time they lo&s;e all by neglect.</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 29. 20.</NOTE> Con&s;ider this, you that have liberty,</L>
<L>For this your owne ca&s;e may be e're you dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now when you from the&s;e captives doe depart,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Heb. 13. 3.</NOTE> Thinke of them though they are out of your &s;ight,</L>
<L>Then by your meanes they may no longer &s;mart</L>
<L>Here in this pri&s;on, where is no delight:</L>
<L>Then they without all doubt thankfull will be,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 3. 31</NOTE> And your love gratifie, when they are free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Job 6. 14. &amp; 30. 25.</NOTE> He is indeed a true friend, that can take</L>
<L>To heart the great afflictions of another,</L>
<L>And in his troubles will not him for&s;ake,</L>
<L>Such a deere<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Pro. 18. 24</NOTE> friend is neerer then a brother.</L>
<L>If you &s;uch friends will be, Chri&s;t will one day</L>
<L>Be your chiefe friend,<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 34, 36.</NOTE> and you receive with joy.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="41" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="102" REF="60">
<HEAD>CHAP. LXI.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the carele&s;&s;e man, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Judg 18. 7.</NOTE> carele&s;&s;e man thou ha&s;t beene in thy dayes,</L>
<L>For which cau&s;e thou unto this place art brought,</L>
<L>And wilt thou yet be carele&s;&s;e here alwayes,</L>
<L>It is the way ne're to be worth a groat.</L>
<L>For here thou lo&s;e&s;t time, and may'&s;t at la&s;t</L>
<L>In great want live, having &s;pent all thou ha&s;t,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 5. 1</NOTE> Here thou can&s;t live (&s;ay'&s;t thou) with meanes as well</L>
<L>As in another place, 'tis all one to thee,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 5. 2.</NOTE> Yet if a minde thou ha&s;t here long to dwell,</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t not know how &s;oone it may undoe thee.</L>
<L>He is a foole, or knave, that here will be</L>
<L>Shut up in pri&s;on, when he may be free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 22 3</NOTE> It &s;eemes thy breeding hath not beene &s;o good,</L>
<L>That thou &s;hould'&s;t not regard thy liberty,</L>
<L>But like a Novice that ne're under&s;tood</L>
<L>How to di&s;tingui&s;h joy from mi&s;ery.</L>
<L>For if thou plea&s;ure take here day or night,</L>
<L>Thou know'&s;t not what belongs<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 10.</NOTE> to true delight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Doubtle&s;&s;e that man that beares an hone&s;t minde,</L>
<L>Will &s;corne<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 142. 7.</NOTE> to live here longer then needs mu&s;t,</L>
<L>For he el&s;ewhere better content may finde,</L>
<L>In things that lawfull are, hone&s;t, and ju&s;t,</L>
<L>The carele&s;&s;e man regardeth not at all</L>
<L>What place he lives in, and therefore mu&s;t fall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What if thou ha&s;t a bed to lye upon,</L>
<L>With meat and drinke enough here for a time:</L>
<L><PB N="103" REF="60">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Luk. 15. 14.</NOTE> What wilt thou doe when all thy money's gone</L>
<L>Goe in a corner, and there cry and whine.</L>
<L>Thus 'twill be, if thou doe it not prevent,</L>
<L>Yet carele&s;&s;e men are never diligent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If thou thus carele&s;&s;e art now of thy &s;elfe,</L>
<L>Do&s;t thinke thy friends a care of thee will have,</L>
<L>Thou art deceiv'd, for though they have much wealth,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 7.</NOTE> They'le &s;uffer thee to live here like a &s;lave.</L>
<L>If thou the&s;e things do&s;t not at all regard,</L>
<L>Thinke if thou &s;uffer, 'tis thy ju&s;t reward.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be thou not like<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 22.</NOTE> the Sow, or filthy Hog,</L>
<L>Which leaves fre&s;h &s;traw, to wallow in the mire:</L>
<L>Or like the Raven that barkes like a Dog,</L>
<L>Which here abides, although it can flye higher,</L>
<L>For if thou here wilt needs &s;et up thy re&s;t,</L>
<L>Thou may'&s;t then be compar'd unto a bea&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The carele&s;&s;e man that in pri&s;on doth lye,</L>
<L>Regardeth now how things may with him be,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 5. 8</NOTE> He cares not for his wife and family,</L>
<L>The Heathen man is not &s;o bad as he:</L>
<L>If thou &s;till in this kinde &s;o carele&s;&s;e art,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt one day for it be &s;ure to &s;mart.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wherefore have thou a religious hone&s;t care,</L>
<L>To thinke before hand how thou &s;hould'&s;t provide</L>
<L>For thee and thine, &s;uch things as needfull are:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 31, 32.</NOTE> But pen&s;ive carefulne&s;&s;e lay thou a&s;ide,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 33.</NOTE> Let thy chiefe care be for the life to come,</L>
<L>Then &s;halt thou no want have, having &s;o done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now &s;eeing thou here art in pri&s;on fa&s;t,</L>
<L>Which pri&s;on is a place of care, no doubt,</L>
<L>Be not yet carele&s;&s;e,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 43. 5.</NOTE> nor thy &s;elfe downe ca&s;t,</L>
<L><PB N="104" REF="61">
But u&s;e thy be&s;t endeavours to get out:</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 16. 7.</NOTE> Be carefull to plea&s;e God above all things,</L>
<L>Then he'le relea&s;e thee,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 55. 7.</NOTE> and pardon thy &s;ins.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="42" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XLII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the rich man, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THou<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Eccles 5. 13</NOTE> that art rich, and good meanes ha&s;t abroad,</L>
<L>What need'&s;t thou be penn'd up in this clo&s;e place?</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 King. 4. 7.</NOTE> Why do&s;t not with thy Creditors accord?</L>
<L>But &s;hew'&s;t thy &s;elfe in this to be &s;o ba&s;e.</L>
<L>If thou here live, having wherewith to pay,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt for it be &s;ure to &s;mart one day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy Creditors want that which thou can&s;t &s;pare:</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 21</NOTE> Why do&s;t thou not in time give them their due?</L>
<L>'Tis like that &s;ome of them cannot forbeare</L>
<L>Their debts,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 29. 4.</NOTE> for which they now are forc'd to &s;ue.</L>
<L>If thou wilt not them pay, then art thou &s;hamele&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And they in laying thee up here are blamele&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 11. 18.</NOTE> It may be thou ly'&s;t here charges to &s;ave,</L>
<L>Regarding not thy credit in this kinde:</L>
<L>In which thou &s;hew'&s;t thy &s;elfe to be a knave,</L>
<L>In bearing &s;uch a wicked wretched minde.</L>
<L>Though thou hereby thy creditors do&s;t di&s;plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Yet know thou can&s;t not here live long at ea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Luke 6. 24 Pro. 11. 4.</NOTE> What art thou now the better for thy wealth,</L>
<L>If thou no better u&s;e thereof do&s;t make?</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 30. 15.</NOTE> Thou &s;hould'&s;t e&s;teeme of liberty and health,</L>
<L>And not lye basking here like a poore Snake.</L>
<L>If thou from men thus keep'&s;t thy meanes away,</L>
<L>The Lord will not thy puni&s;hment delay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="105" REF="61">
<L>For &s;hame doe not thy creditors abu&s;e,</L>
<L>But looke about thee,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rom. 13. 7.</NOTE> and them give content:</L>
<L>For thou can&s;t not thy &s;elfe in this excu&s;e,</L>
<L>And therefore de&s;erv'&s;t to be &s;oundly &s;hent:</L>
<L>Wherfore thy creditors now &s;atisfie,</L>
<L>That thou no longer in this place may&s;t lye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And when thou art hence gone,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 29 7.</NOTE> con&s;ider what</L>
<L>Great mis'ry many poore men doe endure,</L>
<L>That meat, drink, clothes, and lodging here doe lacke,</L>
<L>Which they by no meanes know how to procure.</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Pro. 3. 27.</NOTE> Doe them &s;ome good,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 12.</NOTE> that art thy &s;elfe a debtor,</L>
<L>Then thou by being here wilt be the better.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 3. 17.</NOTE> But if thou riches ha&s;t, and ha&s;t no care</L>
<L>Of thy poore brethren, who are in di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>But on the contrary wilt yet forbeare</L>
<L>To pay thy due, and live in idlene&s;&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5. 12. 3</NOTE> Thy cank'red money &s;hall a witne&s;&s;e be</L>
<L>Again&s;t thee, when thou art in mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 14. 18.</NOTE> Be not a &s;lave to that which &s;hould &s;erve thee,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Eccles 6. 2.</NOTE> As tho&s;e are which have meanes without Gods ble&s;&s;ing:</L>
<L>But having meanes be to poore pris'ners free,</L>
<L>'Twill be to them thou know'&s;t a great refre&s;hing:</L>
<L>Being thus well di&s;pos'd, God will one day</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 6. 17</NOTE> Give thee &s;uch riches as will ne're decay.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="43" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XLIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the idle man, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>HE<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 12. 24.</NOTE> that an idle cour&s;e of life doth lead,</L>
<L>Into great danger mu&s;t needs fall at la&s;t,</L>
<L>What man will undertake to intercede</L>
<L><PB N="106" REF="62">
For &s;uch a man when he's in pri&s;on ca&s;t?</L>
<L>'Tis idlene&s;&s;e hath brought thee to this place,</L>
<L>Where thou art like to live in a poore ca&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Pro. 20. 4.</NOTE> Thou now art fallen into poverty,</L>
<L>Which<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 19. 15.</NOTE> idle men cannot at all avoyd,</L>
<L>For which cau&s;e thou art now here forc'd to lye,</L>
<L>And here may&s;t lye untill thy debts be payd;</L>
<L>And though &s;ome may at thee a while connive,</L>
<L>Yet &s;uch an idle fellow cannot thrive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 3. 10, 11.</NOTE> Unworthy thou art of meat, drink, and clothes,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 3. 12.</NOTE> That &s;lothfull art, and labour do&s;t refu&s;e,</L>
<L>Thy friends in time will turne to be thy foes,</L>
<L>That ha&s;t a calling, which thou do&s;t abu&s;e:</L>
<L>The pri&s;on is too good for &s;uch a one,</L>
<L>That his time &s;pends thus like an idle Drone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 6. 6, 7.</NOTE> The little &s;illy creatures, that are dumbe,</L>
<L>Are wi&s;er then thou art, and can thee teach</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Pro. 6. 8.</NOTE> How thou &s;hould'&s;t labour, and idlene&s;&s;e &s;hun:</L>
<L>This doctrine others be&s;ides them doe preach:</L>
<L>If thou of them learne not, thou &s;halt be &s;ure</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Pro. 6. 11.</NOTE> To live in want, and mi&s;ery endure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When God at fir&s;t our parents did create,</L>
<L>He made them not in idlene&s;&s;e to live,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Gen. 3. 19. 2 The&s;. 3. 8.</NOTE> They labour'd and tooke paines early and late,</L>
<L>Although the Lord the whole world did them give.</L>
<L>Thus<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Job. 5. 7. Ecclus 10. 27.</NOTE> men are borne to labour, and therefore</L>
<L>Such idle per&s;ons the Lord doth abhorre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He that his minde now gives to idlene&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>May fitly be compar'd unto a weed</L>
<L>Which in it hath no vertue, not goodne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Therefore &s;hould not be let alone to breed,</L>
<L><PB N="107" REF="62">
But rather be pluckt up, and ca&s;t away,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Luke 13. 7.</NOTE> the ground it doth &s;o much annoy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now thou art in pri&s;on, thou do&s;t thinke</L>
<L>A priviledge thou ha&s;t idle to be;</L>
<L>And that thereat<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 3.</NOTE> the Lord above doth winke:</L>
<L>Thou art deceiv'd,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Luke 13 6.</NOTE> for thou like the Fig-tree,</L>
<L>(Which fruitle&s;&s;e was)<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Luke. 13. 7.</NOTE> &s;halt be cut down and curs'd;</L>
<L>For idle men of all men are the wor&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Acts 18. 3.</NOTE> If thou a calling ha&s;t, thou may&s;t it u&s;e</L>
<L>In &s;ome &s;ort, or be otherwi&s;e imploy'd</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4. 7, 8.</NOTE> In godly vertues, which good men doe chu&s;e</L>
<L>To labour in, and therewith are not cloy'd:</L>
<L>For God rejects and ca&s;ts all &s;uch away,</L>
<L>As only love<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10. 7</NOTE> to eate, drinke, &s;leepe, and play.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What plea&s;ure can&s;t thou take to fit and drink</L>
<L>With others, that no goodne&s;&s;e have at all?</L>
<L>That take Tobacco till their breath doe &s;tinke,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 14. 4.</NOTE> And &s;et no time apart on, God to call.</L>
<L>Is this a time to &s;pend time in this kinde?</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Joh. 12. 40.</NOTE> Surely the Devill hath made &s;uch fooles blinde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Rom. 14. 18.</NOTE> The time will come when thou account &s;halt give</L>
<L>How thou thy time ha&s;t &s;pent here and el&s;ewhere,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Job 8. 9.</NOTE> Thou can&s;t not thinke thou ha&s;t here long to live,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 32</NOTE> Though thou of thy &s;oules health ha&s;t now no care.</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 4. 2.</NOTE> The time thou ha&s;t, that precious time &s;pend well,</L>
<L>And have a care no<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Mat. 12. 36</NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">lle tales thou tell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Unto a place thou mu&s;t goe, where thou &s;halt</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Dan. 12 2.</NOTE> Live everla&s;tingly in joy or paine;</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 2. 17.</NOTE> This world's the through fare, thinke now what a fault</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 3. 11</NOTE> It is in him that thinke not of the&s;e twaine <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">2. Pet. 3. 14.</NOTE> Be diligent therefore,<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Pro. 15. 24.</NOTE> and walke a pace,</L>
<L>So &s;halt thou goe to heaven<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Rev. 21. 10, 11.</NOTE> that joyfull place.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="108" REF="63">
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1. 13</NOTE> Rowze up thy &s;elfe, and think though thou here art</L>
<L>In pri&s;on of thy liberty re&s;train'd,</L>
<L>Yet if from this place thou would'&s;t &s;oone depart,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Heb. 6. 12.</NOTE> Shun &s;loath and idlene&s;&s;e, and be reclaim'd.</L>
<L>In action alwayes be,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 26 4.</NOTE> &s;pend no time vaine,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Col. 4. 5.</NOTE> And thy lo&s;t time &s;eeke to redeeme againe.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="44" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XLIIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the di&s;&s;embling hypocrite, a Pri&s;oner.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THou<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 15. 7. 8</NOTE> that ha&s;t often playd the counterfeit</L>
<L>With tho&s;e whom thou by that meanes ha&s;t deceiv'd,</L>
<L>Art for that cau&s;e into the Compter let,</L>
<L>Where many &s;uch as thou art are receiv'd:</L>
<L>If thou di&s;&s;embling trickes wilt &s;till here u&s;e,</L>
<L>Men will thee loath,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Jer. 42. 20, 22.</NOTE> and God will thee refu&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He cannot live (&s;ay'&s;t thou) that can't di&s;&s;emble:</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 32. 6.</NOTE> I grant in thee this Proverb's verifi'd,</L>
<L>Yet have &s;uch knaves ju&s;t cau&s;e to quake and tremble;</L>
<L>For certainly God cannot them abide.</L>
<L>Thou by di&s;&s;embling may'&s;t think to live well,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 8. 13. Mat. 24. 51.</NOTE> Yet will that cour&s;e of life bring thee to hell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Pro. 26. 24, 25.</NOTE> Sometimes &s;ome friends thou may'&s;t deceive, I grant,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Job 17. 5.</NOTE> By thy deceitfull, flatt'ring, lying tongue,</L>
<L>And afterwards thereof may&s;t boa&s;t and vaunt,</L>
<L>Yet for the &s;ame thy con&s;cience &s;hall be &s;tung.</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Job 20. 5.</NOTE> What inward peace, think'&s;t thou, can in thee be,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 5. 9 1 Tim. 4. 2.</NOTE> When thy &s;mooth tongue and fal&s;e heart can't agree?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such hypocrites may make mo&s;t men beleeve</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 5.</NOTE> They are religious, hone&s;t, and di&s;creet:</L>
<L>Yet if they doe not now for their &s;ins grieve,</L>
<L><PB N="109" REF="63">
The Lord (who<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Acts 15. 8. Mar. 12. 15.</NOTE> knows their hearts) will with them meet</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 13 &amp;c.</NOTE> And many woes again&s;t them hee'le pronounce,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 52. 4, 5</NOTE> And their deceitfull &s;oules will &s;oundly trounce.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 28</NOTE> Thy outward carriage may to them appeare</L>
<L>To be upright, as thou would'&s;t have them think,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 27</NOTE> But thou within art full of filthy geere,</L>
<L>So that in the<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 65. 5.</NOTE> Lords no&s;trils thou do&s;t &s;tinke.</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Luk. 18. 14</NOTE> &s;infull Publican &s;hall mercy finde</L>
<L>Sooner then the proud<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">John 9. 41. Mat. 23. 26</NOTE> Phari&s;ee that's blinde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Act. 5. 2.</NOTE> Though thou with men di&s;&s;emble, yet take heed</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Act. 5. 3, 4.</NOTE> With God thou doe not play the hypocrite,</L>
<L>For if thou doe, think not thou &s;halt be freed</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Act. 5. 5. Pro. 26. 26.</NOTE> From being puni&s;h'd in the peoples &s;ight,</L>
<L>If thou of the&s;e great &s;ins art not afraid,</L>
<L>Thou wilt ere long in Gods pri&s;on be laid.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Satan his children teacheth to deny</L>
<L>The truth to God and man,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Joh. 8. 44.</NOTE> he is a lyer,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 7. Mar. 5. 9.</NOTE> Yet he him&s;elfe would not tell God a lye,</L>
<L>But told the truth, when he did him require:</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Job 36. 13</NOTE> The hypocrite who&s;e heart's inclin'd to evill,</L>
<L>In this point farre wor&s;e is then is the Devill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now what a fearfull ca&s;e art thou then in,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3. 5</NOTE> That in the Church vi&s;ible art now living,</L>
<L>And can&s;t not thy heart give to God, being</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Act. 8. 21.</NOTE> A fal&s;e di&s;&s;embling heart,<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Pro. 10. 20.</NOTE> not worth the giving,</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Joh. 6. 70.</NOTE> Which heart the Devill having once po&s;&s;e&s;s'd,</L>
<L>Will keepe it, for with him 'tis in reque&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Con&s;ider this, before it be too late,</L>
<L>Thou in a place art now in<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 71. 20.</NOTE> troubles great,</L>
<L>Where thou &s;hould'&s;t<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 5. 17.</NOTE> often pray and<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 63. 6.</NOTE> meditate:</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 17. 6.</NOTE> God heares them which him faithfully<NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 19. 22</NOTE> intreat.</L>
<L><PB N="110" REF="64">
And then a<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 36. 26.</NOTE> new heart hee'le thee likewi&s;e give,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 23. 26</NOTE> Which heart thou may&s;t returne to him and live.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="45" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XLV.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Commi&s;sioners appointed by his Maje&s;ty for the
reliefe of poore Pri&s;oners.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>YOu noble Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, and others,</L>
<L>That are appointed by our gracious King</L>
<L>In the&s;e bad times to be Commi&s;&s;ioners,</L>
<L>For the reliefe of pri&s;oners, lamenting,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 35. 9.</NOTE> Here are poore men oppre&s;s'd,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Lam. 5. 17.</NOTE> ready to faint&punc;</L>
<L>Be pleas'd to heare<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 55 2.</NOTE> their pittifull complaint.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 12. 10</NOTE> The cruelty of many creditors</L>
<L>Is &s;uch, as heretofore was never knowne,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Job 6. 14.</NOTE> No pitty they have on their poore debtors,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 3. 7.</NOTE> Becau&s;e their hearts are as hard as a &s;tone:</L>
<L>Wherefore poore pris'ners<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 9.</NOTE> laden here with griefe</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Pro. 29. 7.</NOTE> Appeale to you for &s;uccour and reliefe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 29.</NOTE> The debtor's willing to doe what he can</L>
<L>His cruell creditor to &s;atisfie,</L>
<L>And though he offer like an hone&s;t man,</L>
<L>To give him all he hath for's liberty:</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Mat. 18. 30.</NOTE> Yet will he not at all li&s;ten unto him,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he had much rather quite undoe him.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A man impri&s;on'd cannot exerci&s;e</L>
<L>His calling, by which meanes his family</L>
<L>At home want food and rayment, and likewi&s;e</L>
<L>He's like to peri&s;h here without mercy:</L>
<L>For his rich creditor<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Pro. 30. 14.</NOTE> &s;aith he cares not</L>
<L>If he in pri&s;on lye untill he not.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="111" REF="64">
<L>Such ill condition'd creditors doe know,</L>
<L>The Pri&s;on's not a place where men e're thriv'd,</L>
<L>And yet they take a cour&s;e to overthrow</L>
<L>Some that are here of liberty depriv'd:</L>
<L>For &s;ome well knowne are not a&s;ham'd to &s;ay,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mich. 3. 2. 3</NOTE> They'le have their bones, if they their debts can't pay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e rig'rous cour&s;es again&s;t pris'ners mu&s;t</L>
<L>Be here endur'd by them, unle&s;&s;e you plea&s;e</L>
<L>To mitigate the &s;ame,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 82. 3.</NOTE> which is both ju&s;t</L>
<L>And lawfull, which will be much for their ea&s;e:</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 12. 6.</NOTE> If Mercy be with Ju&s;tice mix'd, then may</L>
<L>Many poore pris'ners be releas'd each day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wherefore tho&s;e that have ju&s;t cau&s;e to complaine,</L>
<L>Referre them&s;elves,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Job 29. 16.</NOTE> and their di&s;tre&s;&s;ed cau&s;e</L>
<L>To you, that have full power to maintaine</L>
<L>That good Commi&s;&s;ion, grounded on Gods Lawes:</L>
<L>Now you by vertue thereof much good doe</L>
<L>To pris'ners that referre them&s;elves to you.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Although &s;ome creditors be ob&s;tinate,</L>
<L>And very wilfull, which will not obey</L>
<L>Such orders as you power have to make,</L>
<L>For &s;uch as their debts can't pre&s;ently pay:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 4. 9</NOTE> Yet without doubt you have authority</L>
<L>To puni&s;h tho&s;e that are refractory.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 10. 1</NOTE> But by your gentle, &s;weet, and milde per&s;wa&s;ions,</L>
<L>Such creditors who&s;e hearts are mollifi'd,</L>
<L>Doe yeeld them&s;elves upon all good occa&s;ions,</L>
<L>Your charitable cen&s;ures to abide:</L>
<L>Poore debtors by this meanes may be enlarg'd,</L>
<L>And afterwards their debts ju&s;tly di&s;charg'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now if you doe procure them certaine dayes</L>
<L><PB N="112" REF="65">
Of payment, that they may with courage goe</L>
<L>Abroad to &s;eeke their fortunes,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 146. 1, 7.</NOTE> they will pray&s;e</L>
<L>The Lord for you, that doe &s;uch favour &s;how:</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 31. 9.</NOTE> For tho&s;e that doe the cau&s;e of poore men plead,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 34</NOTE> Their lives in heav'n with Chri&s;t &s;hall ever lead.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="46" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XLVI.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his Chamber-fellowes, and other di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Pri&s;oners
of the Knights Ward, that were there &s;hut
up of the Plague.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WE now have cau&s;e to look about, and think</L>
<L>How &s;oone<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rom. 14. 10.</NOTE> we may be call'd unto the barre</L>
<L>Of Gods great Ju&s;tice, from which we can't &s;hrinke:</L>
<L>Let's therefore think on't whil'&s;t we yet here are;</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Eccles 8. 8. Ecclus 14. 12.</NOTE> For when Gods Sergeant comes, hee'le make us know</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Rom. 14. 12</NOTE> We mu&s;t be gone whether we will or no.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Examples to our terrour here we have,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 102. 20.</NOTE> Of Gods delinquents, how they doe lament</L>
<L>When they are &s;mitten, and mark'd for the grave,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Heb. 9 27.</NOTE> Becau&s;e by no meanes they can it prevent.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 106. 29.</NOTE> To this great danger we are all expos'd,</L>
<L>That are in this infectious place inclos'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our Chamber-fellow being &s;ick a bed,</L>
<L>Made us beleeve that he was free and cleere</L>
<L>From all infection, but when he was dead,</L>
<L>Gods tokens on his body did appeare;</L>
<L>Which &s;ight increas'd our feare, and &s;uddenly</L>
<L>We chang'd our lodging,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Mar. 10 47.</NOTE> and cry'd for mercy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;eventh day after, he that lay with me</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 13. 20.</NOTE> Dy'd likewi&s;e of the &s;ame di&s;ea&s;e, then I</L>
<L><PB N="113" REF="65">
Began to thinke<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 38. 10</NOTE> that my turne next would be,</L>
<L>And did re&s;olve to take it patiently.</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ezra 9. 15</NOTE> But you and I God to this day hath &s;par'd,</L>
<L>Let's yet looke up, and be alwayes prepar'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Chron. 21. 16.</NOTE> For the &s;word of the Lord (the Pe&s;tilence)</L>
<L>Is &s;till &s;tretch'd over us, and not yet &s;heath'd,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">V. 16&punc; 17.</NOTE> To whom &s;hall we repaire for our defence,</L>
<L>But to the Lord, le&s;t we be much deceiv'd:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 2. 6.</NOTE> He kills, and makes alive, 'tis he alone</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 6. 1.</NOTE> That wounds, &amp; heals;<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 55. 2.</NOTE> to him let's make our mone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some of our company<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 78. 50&punc;</NOTE> he kills outright,</L>
<L>And &s;ome<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Num. 14. 12</NOTE> are &s;orely wounded ev'ry day,</L>
<L>And we that are i'th combat day and night,</L>
<L>Not kill'd nor wounded, yet can't run away.</L>
<L>But as the forlorne Hope i'th time of war,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 1. 8.</NOTE> Are in a de&s;perate ca&s;e, &s;o we now are.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 Chron. 21. 13.</NOTE> We now are fallen into the Lords hands,</L>
<L>As well as into'th hands of cruell men,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 49. 13.</NOTE> Loe, mercy now again&s;t cruelty &s;tands,</L>
<L>And will o'recome it, though we know not when;</L>
<L>Let men be what they will,<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Neh. 9. 33.</NOTE> the Lord is ju&s;t,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Job 13. 15.</NOTE> Then though he kill us, yet let's in him tru&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 38. 11.</NOTE> Our friends and kindred, now, will not come neare us,</L>
<L>They have a faire excu&s;e, yet may they &s;end:</L>
<L>Our creditors whom wee fear'd,<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 11</NOTE> now doe feare us,</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 74.</NOTE> More then they feare God, on whom we depend:</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 118. 6.</NOTE> Let friends and kindred, creditors and all</L>
<L>Doe what they plea&s;e,<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Cant. 8. 10. Zech. 2. 5.</NOTE> the Lord is our &s;ure wall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 69. 33</NOTE> Gods pris'ners now we are,<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 21. 24</NOTE> the action's laid,</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 59. 12. Job 22. 5.</NOTE> Our debts are ju&s;t, and withall are &s;o great,</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">Joel 3. 4. Job. 9. 3.</NOTE> That by our &s;elves they never can be paid:</L>
<L><PB N="114" REF="66">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Mat. 11. 28</NOTE> Wherefore let us our Creditor &s;oone intreat,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Gal. 1. 4. Heb. 2. 17.</NOTE> To be our &s;urety, then no doubt but we</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 1. 3.</NOTE> Shall mercy finde,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">John 8. 36</NOTE> and e're long be &s;et free.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="47" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XLVII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Pri&s;oner at liberty, his thankfull remembrance of
Gods great mercies towards him, in his manifold
deliverances out of many great dangers and
troubles to this pre&s;ent day. To the
King of Heaven.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THou<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2. 9.</NOTE> that the great deliverer art of tho&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. 6. &amp; 4. 16.</NOTE> That &s;eeke to thee for helpe in time of need,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 31.</NOTE> Wilt not reject them,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jam. 4 8.</NOTE> but with them wilt clo&s;e:</L>
<L>O Lord,<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mat. 12. 20</NOTE> thou wilt not breake the brui&s;ed Reed.</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 27. 13</NOTE> When I was weake and faint,<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">&amp; 9. 18.</NOTE> ready to peri&s;h,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 25. 4.</NOTE> Thou then gav'&s;t &s;trength,<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 146. 9.</NOTE> and did'&s;t me likewi&s;e cheri&s;h.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Phil. 2. 27.</NOTE> When I was &s;icke, and in danger of death,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Job 29. 12.</NOTE> Wanting at that time meanes to get reliefe,</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> King 17 17.</NOTE> Not being able &s;carce to fetch my breath,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Job 33. 19</NOTE> Feeling much paine,<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 31. 10</NOTE> and almo&s;t kill'd with griefe:</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Mat. 4 24. P&s;al. 30. 2.</NOTE> Thou then wa&s;t my Phy&s;itian, which did'&s;t cure</L>
<L><NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 3. 9.</NOTE> And gav'&s;t me health,<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Gen. 43. 28</NOTE> the which doth yet endure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 38. 19</NOTE> When I had enemies for me too &s;trong,</L>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 65. 2.</NOTE> That &s;ought my ruine, and my overthrow,</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 8 6.</NOTE> That did rejoyce when<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">&amp; 35. 26.</NOTE> they could doe me wrong,</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3 52.</NOTE> So that I could not tell which way to goe:</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 136. 24.</NOTE> Thou then did&s;t me defend, and mad'&s;t them faile,</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 129. 2</NOTE> So that again&s;t me they could not prevaile.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 11. 26.</NOTE> When I of cruell theeves was in great danger</L>
<L>Upon the wayes, in<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Num. 21. 4.</NOTE> woods and other places,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Luke 10. 30.</NOTE> Where I alone then travell'd as a &s;tranger,</L>
<L><PB N="115" REF="66">
Fearing I &s;hould be forc'd to &s;ee their faces:</L>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 24. 17 P&s;al. 78. 52.</NOTE> Thou then did'&s;t me conduct, and wa&s;t my guide,</L>
<L>So that I had no hurt of neither &s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Jona 1. 4&punc; 11.</NOTE> When I at Sea was, in tempe&s;tuous weather,</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 11. 26.</NOTE> In perils great, and often times di&s;may'd,</L>
<L>When &s;ands, and rocks, and raging waves together,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jona 1. 5.</NOTE> Caus'd all the Mariners to be afraid:</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Mar. 4. 39.</NOTE> Thou then, O Lord, did'&s;t cau&s;e the &s;tormes to cea&s;e,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 107. 30.</NOTE> And brought'&s;t us to the land, to re&s;t in peace.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 11. 26, 27.</NOTE> When I was often times in dangers great,</L>
<L>In divers parts, which thou Lord be&s;t do&s;t know,</L>
<L>Which &s;everall dangers I cannot repeat,</L>
<L>Being &s;o many, and fearfull al&s;o,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 138. 7&punc;</NOTE> Thou then did'&s;t evermore &s;tretch forth thine hand,</L>
<L>And me pre&s;erv'd as well by Sea as land.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Ruth 1. 3. 5</NOTE> When I &s;ome friends and deare acquaintance lo&s;t,</L>
<L>That were to me in their life time a &s;tay,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 1. 26</NOTE> And when thou took'&s;t them from me, being to&s;t</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Job 7. 4.</NOTE> And tumbled in the world both night and day:</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 33. 15.</NOTE> Thou then which rul'&s;t the hearts of all good men,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Ruth 2. 13 20.</NOTE> Did'&s;t rai&s;e me other friends in &s;tead of them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Job 1. 14, 15.</NOTE> When I lo&s;t all th'e&s;tate I had, which thou</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 11. 14. Eccles. 5. 19.</NOTE> Did'&s;t give me for my comfort in this life,</L>
<L>After which lo&s;&s;es great I knew not how</L>
<L>To live,<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Tob. 1. 20.</NOTE> but in great want with my poore wife:</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5. 11.</NOTE> Thou then of me took'&s;t pitie, and againe</L>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 111. 5.</NOTE> Re&s;tor'd&s;t to me that which did us maintaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Obad. 2.</NOTE> When I my credit lo&s;t, and my good name,</L>
<L><NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 19. 27. Ecclus 18. 14.</NOTE> Being backbited, &s;launder'd, and abus'd</L>
<L>In words, by tho&s;e<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Jam. 3. 8.</NOTE> who&s;e tongues no man could name,</L>
<L><NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 18. 17.</NOTE> So that it griev'd me to be &s;o ill us'd:</L>
<L><PB N="116" REF="67">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 6.</NOTE> Thou then at length did'&s;t bring the truth to light,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 40. 2.</NOTE> And my credit redeemd'&s;t, for all their &s;pight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Acts 10. 38</NOTE> When I extreamly was a&s;&s;aulted by</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Mat. 15. 22</NOTE> The Devill, who<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 38. 3.</NOTE> my con&s;cience troubled &s;ore</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Lam. 4. 22.</NOTE> With reckning then my &s;ins up, &s;o that I</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. 14 16.</NOTE> Was in de&s;paire,<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Job 7. 15. &amp; 10. 1.</NOTE> and did my life abhor,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Mat. 17. 18. Act. 26. 18.</NOTE> Thou then (the God of mercy) did'&s;t re&s;traine</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 5. 8.</NOTE> His cruell rage,<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 71. 20 Eph. 2. 1.</NOTE> and me reviv'd&s;t againe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When I in pri&s;on was,<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Lam. 3. 18, 19.</NOTE> in mi&s;ery,</L>
<L><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Eccles 4 1.</NOTE> Wanting all earthly comforts, and al&s;o</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. 3.</NOTE> When I thought the time come that I &s;hould dye,</L>
<L><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 106. 29.</NOTE> By rea&s;on of the Plague, which there did grow.</L>
<L>Thou then<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 136. 1.</NOTE> who&s;e mercy doth endure for ever)</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Dan. 6. 27.</NOTE> Did'&s;t me out of that loath&s;ome place deliver.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Heb. 10. 32</NOTE> When many cro&s;&s;es and troubles I had</L>
<L>From time to time,<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 77. 3.</NOTE> which troubled much my minde,</L>
<L>And yet to tho&s;e afflictions<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Phil. 1. 16.</NOTE> &s;ome would adde</L>
<L>More &s;orrow,<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4. 14.</NOTE> for they were to me unkinde:</L>
<L>Then Lord,<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 145. 18</NOTE> when I in faith did on thee call,</L>
<L><NOTE N="z" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 72. 12</NOTE> Thou did&s;t deliver me out of them all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 116. 12.</NOTE> Now Lord what &s;hall I render unto thee</L>
<L>For all the&s;e gracious favours, beyond mea&s;ure,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 58. 11.</NOTE> Which thou ha&s;t &s;till voucha&s;afed unto me,</L>
<L>According to thy ble&s;&s;ed will and plea&s;ure?</L>
<L><NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">1 Chron. 29. 13.</NOTE> I will thee give all prai&s;e, and eke thank&s;giving,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 146. 2</NOTE> As long as in this world I have a being.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 103. 2.</NOTE> benefits, thy<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 4. 16.</NOTE> love, thy providence,</L>
<L>Thy<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Gen. 49. 25</NOTE> ble&s;&s;ings temporall, and<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Eph. 1. 3.</NOTE> &s;pirituall,</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Gen. 30. 27</NOTE> Of all which I have had experience,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 32.</NOTE> Be&s;ides thy care, which is perpetuall,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 92. 1.</NOTE> De&s;erves more thanks and prai&s;e, being &s;o rare,</L>
<L><PB N="117" REF="67">
Then<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 13. 1.</NOTE> tongues of men or Angels<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 66. 16</NOTE> can declare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I now be&s;eech thee<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 157. 6</NOTE> I may ne're forget</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 89. 1.</NOTE> Thy wonderfull great mercies &s;howne to me,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 100. 4.</NOTE> But make me truly thankfull, and &s;o let</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 119. 76.</NOTE> T'wards me thy loving kindne&s;&s;e ever be:</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Luke 23. 42.</NOTE> And when I goe from hence, Lord let me crave</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Phil. 1. 23.</NOTE> I may in heav'n with thee my dwelling have.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="48" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. XLVIII.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To his good Friend, that gave order to his Friend
to &s;ee him di&s;charged out of Pri&s;on.</HEAD>
<L>R&mdash;Oan is the place where<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 6. 15.</NOTE> my deere friend doth dwel,</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 6. 16.</NOTE> Thou that deere friend art to thy friend <HI>Bagwell.</HI></L>
<L>I&mdash;<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gen. 39. 20</NOTE> was in pri&s;on in great mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>Where I, (as I thought)<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 6. 7</NOTE> did my be&s;t friends try.</L>
<L>C&mdash;raving<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Gen. 40. 14&punc;</NOTE> their helpe,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">&amp; V. 23.</NOTE> yet helple&s;&s;e they left me,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 28. 16.</NOTE> And therefore I for helpe &s;ent unto thee.</L>
<L>H&mdash;ere<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Luke 10. 31, 32.</NOTE> in mine owne Country I could not finde</L>
<L><NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Luk. 10. 33.</NOTE> A friend, as thou ha&s;t beene, to me &s;o kinde.</L>
<L>A&mdash;lthough<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Tob. 1. 16.</NOTE> a friend to many I have beene,</L>
<L><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 43</NOTE> Yet none of me in pri&s;on would e&s;teeme.</L>
<L>R&mdash;eleas'd<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Jer. 38. 7, 13.</NOTE> am I now out of that di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Which was by thy meanes, and yet ne'rethele&s;&s;e</L>
<L>D&mdash;oe not thinke but thine Agent I'le content,</L>
<L>=Though<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 146. 7</NOTE> God's the Author, thou the In&s;trument.</L>
<L>L&mdash;ong have I laine &s;hut up in that clo&s;e place,</L>
<L>Where<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 88. 18</NOTE> friends and kindred left me in di&s;grace.</L>
<L>I&mdash;n my more<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 12. 8</NOTE> pro&s;p'rous dayes I could not know</L>
<L>How to di&s;tingui&s;h my friend from my foe.</L>
<L>M&mdash;any<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Job 42. 11.</NOTE> of my friends in tho&s;e dayes were glad</L>
<L>Kindne&s;&s;e to &s;hew me, when no need I had.</L>
<L><PB N="118" REF="68">
B&mdash;ut<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 6. 14.</NOTE> when God brought me to adver&s;ity,</L>
<L>No kindne&s;&s;e from tho&s;e friends at all had I.</L>
<L>E&mdash;xperience<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 17. 17</NOTE> I have had of thy true love,</L>
<L>Which I mu&s;t needs confe&s;&s;e<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 18 16</NOTE> came from above.</L>
<L>R&mdash;ejoyce &s;hould I,<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 37. 6.</NOTE> if I could tell which way</L>
<L>To recompence thy love without delay.</L>
<L>Y&mdash;et let me tell thee, to avoid all &s;trife,</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Phile. 22.</NOTE> E're long I'le &s;ee thee, if God &s;pare us life.</L>
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<HEAD>CHAP. XLIX.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To a carefull Friend that di&s;charged the tru&s;t commit|ted
to him by his Friend, in &s;eeing of him
freed out of Pri&s;on.</HEAD>
<L>L&mdash;Oving<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Col. 3 12</NOTE> kind-hearted men, who&s;e mindes are bent</L>
<L><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 Jam. 6. 18.</NOTE> To doe good to &s;uch as are almo&s;t &s;pent,</L>
<L>A&mdash;re<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 12. 1.</NOTE> rare, I dare &s;ay, &s;eeke the Kingdome round,</L>
<L><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Pro. 20. 6.</NOTE> Scarce one in forty in the&s;e dayes are found.</L>
<L>W&mdash;retched<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 25. 12.</NOTE> worldlings, though they have much to &s;pare,</L>
<L><NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 John 3. 17.</NOTE> Yet they of Gods poore children have no care.</L>
<L>R&mdash;ich<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Jam. 5. 5.</NOTE> men that live in plea&s;ure and great fame,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Gen. 11. 4.</NOTE> Doe famous things to get them&s;elves a name.</L>
<L>A&mdash;n<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jam. 1. 27.</NOTE> hone&s;t true religious man indeed,</L>
<L>That's ble&s;t with means,<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Acts 10. 2.</NOTE> wil help tho&s;e that have need,</L>
<L>N&mdash;ot<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Act. 20. 34.</NOTE> onely of him&s;elfe, but will likewi&s;e</L>
<L><NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 16. 1.</NOTE> Stir others up to that good exerci&s;e.</L>
<L>C&mdash;hri&s;t<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Eph. 5. 2. 5.</NOTE> his poore members loves, he's their &s;afeguard,</L>
<L><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Mat. 25. 34 31.</NOTE> And tho&s;e that doe them good he will reward.</L>
<L>E&mdash;very one that's poore is not Chri&s;ts member,</L>
<L>=<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Mat. 5. 3. James 2. 5.</NOTE> Yet he that's poore in &s;pirit he doth tender.</L>
<L>B&mdash;etter<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Pro. 28. 6.</NOTE> is the upright poore man, then he</L>
<L><NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Pro. 21. 24.</NOTE> That's rich and &s;cornfull, as mo&s;t rich men be.</L>
<L>R&mdash;ich and poore that<NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37. 37</NOTE> religious are<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">&amp; 107. 43.</NOTE> and wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Are happy,<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 3. 12.</NOTE> and mo&s;t precious in Gods eyes.</L>
<L><PB N="119" REF="68">
I&mdash;n this la&s;t age much<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">E&s;ay 3. 16. Ho&s;. 7. 10.</NOTE> pride and<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Neh. 1. 2, 3</NOTE> poverty</L>
<L>Is in all places,<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Mat. 24. 12</NOTE> but &s;mall charity.</L>
<L>N&mdash;ever<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Neh. 5. 12.</NOTE> were men in times pa&s;t which liv'd wel</L>
<L><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 King 17 12, 13.</NOTE> So hard put to it, which they blu&s;h to tell.</L>
<L>L&mdash;ittle doe mo&s;t men think,<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ecclus 11. 4. 24.</NOTE> that boa&s;t and vaunt,</L>
<L><NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 8. 14.</NOTE> What 'tis to helpe poore hou&s;e-keepers that want.</L>
<L>E&mdash;xperience I, and many be&s;ides me,</L>
<L><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 8. 16, 17.</NOTE> Have had of thy religious care &s;o free.</L>
<L>Y&mdash;eeld<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 113. 1</NOTE> unto God all prai&s;e and thank&s;giving,</L>
<L><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Joh. 3&punc; 27.</NOTE> For tho&s;e good things thou ha&s;t came all from him.</L>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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