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A42072 Gregorii Opuscula, or, Notes & observations upon some passages of Scripture with other learned tracts / written by John Gregory ...; Works. 1650 Gregory, John, 1607-1646.; Gurgany, John, 1606 or 7-1675. 1650 (1650) Wing G1921_PARTIAL; Wing G1925_PARTIAL; Wing G1927_PARTIAL; ESTC R14029 370,916 594

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of the Scripture it self and then maketh this end of Herod's matters out of Clemens the Chronographer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is And immediately Herod beeing taken with an incurable diseas was eaten up of worms and so died Joan. Antiochen Melala Chronog Lib. 10. Ms. in Arch. Baroccian Biblioth Bodleianae But this Herod the Great was not eaten up of Worms neither There 's a difference betwixt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 12. 2 Macab 9. or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This indeed was the diseas of which the other Herod died Antiochus died so too and both by the plain and visible judgment of God the which where it is not verie notably and convincingly revealed it were good to make as little use of our own Augurie as wee can In the other Herod's case S. Luke saith that an Angel struck him This Angel in Josephus is but an Owl 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a German Soothsayer had told the King as much before Antiquit. Lib. 18. C. 8. But of this in a more proper place But if Herod the Great had been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or eaten up of Worms and by the judgment of God too is it to bee thought that this judgment looked a-squint upon all the rest of this Kings enormities and cast a full eie onely upon the Massacre of the Children This is but to deliver up Herod to Satan here that his soul might bee saved in the daie of the Lord. Would you have such a man thus taken from the evil to com Rather then so if you would have a damnation upon Herod that sleepeth not let him have his portion in this life Let him die the death of the Righteous and let his last end bee like his Though hee may seem to you to bee never so much pluck'd off from God's right hand yet you do not see that this man was written Childless though hee had drank so deep of the Blood of Innocents Stil there was one left and one of his own Race too to ●it upon the Throne of Jurie you are not to reckon of these things according to your own angrie waie of vengeance The right profligati homines and those that are notoriously engaged especially in interested impieties are most usually condemned to prosper here that they may bee the more secretly and justly reserved to the blackness and darkness of their own other World But if you will now Herod shall bee left in the verie same case that you would have him Let it bee so that hee was judged here that hee might not bee condemned hereafter or let both bee true 't is so somtimes Then I believ with you that the doom did as principally and immediately reflect upon this Murther of the Innocents as upon anie of all the rest There is an aggravation in the Number too at least if the account bee honestly given up to our hands Menolog Decemb. 29. Antholog f. 132. a. The Greek Tradition in the Rubrick to the Daie is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That it was no less then fourteen thousand The Aethiopick Church reckoneth of as manie in their Missal Memorials I know not what to saie to this but if it beee so then Thou Bethleëm Ephratah ar't not so little among the Thousands of Juda Mich. 5.2 It will not bee much beside the matter if here I remember you of this Storie The Town of Hamel in the Dutchie of Brunswick was exceedingly pestered with Rats There happened to com to Town a Roguie Fidler who undertook presently to quit the Place of all the Vermin upon condition to receiv such a summ of monie for his pains The Burgers agreed The Fidler betook him to his Pipe at the sound whereof the Rats came all forth and followed the fellow quite through the Town to the River Weser where they were all drown'd The Piper the Pid'e Piper they call'd him came to demand his monie but the summ was now thought to bee too much especially the thing beeing don so easily too and so unexspectedly yet they allotted him a good sufficient reward but the fellow would have his bargain all or none or els hee would com by it as hee could They bid him take his Cours The fellow set his Pipe to his mouth and to work again as before And all the Children followed him out of the Town to the vale of Koppenburgh where the Mountain seemed to open and receiv in these little ones into a preposterous womb and so closed up again but certain it is that it was never yet heard of where or how that Earth delivered her self of these children again The Number of the little ones was 130. And the thing was don in Sermon-time upon the 26 of June in the Year 1284. as Sethus Calvisius out of the Annals of the Place The special Reason why this Storie is here set down is that which follow 's In the memorie of this disaster The Men of Hamel date all their publick Matters especially from this Exodus or going forth of the Children setting it down next to the Year of our Lord. Ammianus Marcellinus telleth of two that suffered unjustly under the Tyrannie of Valentinian Ammian Marcellin lib. 27. p. 369 370. Edition Lendenbrogian Quorum memoriam apud Mediolanum colentes nunc usque Christiani locum ubi sepulti sunt Ad Innocentes appellant whose memories the Christians at Millan do yet celebrate And the Place where they lie buried is called The Innocents These two last digressions were not intended to bee mistaken but by this uninterrested disguis the more to justifie the Celebrations of these our own Innocents indeed The several practices of whose Memories I would have here taken as they are received and they shall bee more justly then affectionately delivered Brocardus in his description of the Holie Land pointeth you to the verie place where these Infants were slain Item saith hee ostenditur locus occisionis Innocentium puerorum Adrichomius and others tell you of a Chappel there about Bethlehem dedicated to their memorie and under that a Vault in the which these little Bodies lie buried The description of this Vault you have in the Viaggio da Venetia Al Santo Sepolcro Verso l'oriente glie un altra grotta ouero caverna giu bassa stretto ordinata in modo d'una Croce é qui furono sepolti gli santi Innocenti c. Ancora ne sepeliron una parte di ditti Innocenti fra Bethlehem Bethama otto miglia lequali sepolture se vedeno ancora hoggi di that is Eastward there is another Grott or Cavern lying low underneath and the passage verie narrow it is contrived into the fashion of a Cross and here som of the Holie Innocents lie buried Another part of them lie buried in the waie betwixt Bethlehem and Bethanie for a matter of eight Miles distance And their Sepulcres are to bee seen to this verie daie This is all the Local memorie of these Infants
Son to his Distressed Mother the Church of England for whose Sufferings hee forrowed unto Death a more painful and exquisite Martyrdom then that by Fire or Sword By these the Soul break 's prison in a minute to an Eternitie of Libertie and Felicitie that keep 's us on the Rack of Death not only to the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 15.31 wee die hourly This Account would have run into a Volume should I have given you a Particular of his Virtues as his Courtesie Humilitie c. not disdaining the meanest Scholar nor proud of his victorious Discourses with the best Learned And how free and liberal hee was of his Treasurie to the full satisfaction of all Inquisitors I may confidently appeal to all that knew him But I must not so remember my lost Friend as to forget my self in my Promise of Brevitie nay I will rather chuse to bee somwhat indebted in this kinde to the Dead well knowing the Mourners following will compleatly discharge those Arrears To whom I now therefore hastily refer you Upon the DEATH of my dearest Friend the AUTOR WOuld you the Caus why this my Son did die 'T was to prevent my Immortalitie As Twins inform'd by one soul part being dead The sad surviver live's half-murthered So I in my Retirements being fixt On Him in Mee both Life and Death are mixt Nor crave's our * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Motto less though God denie's To match our Wishes with our Destinies What then remain's but that I often look Upon thee and enjoie thee in thy Book Whose Learned Matchless Lines shall still bring forth Thy Lovers as Eternal as thy Worth Who when wee are in Bliss will sigh complain And curs the Age suffer'd thee to bee slain Slain by an Ichabod and manie more 1 Sam. 4.24 Masters Oxonienses Cartwright Oxonienses Digg●s c. Oxonienses Whom though this hate the next Age will adore Whose Ashes shall revive if anie bee Fit Subjects for Celestial Chymistrie Thus Shine yee Glories of your Age whil'st Wee Wait to fill up your Martyrologie And envie not this our Ambition though You wounded were to Death Wee have scars too And from those darts but with this diff'rence You Let them stick fast which wee with scorn with-drew Thus different Glories in one Sphere may bee Equal in Height though not in Dignitie Whil'st like that Manna past or that in store The Least was fill'd nor is the Greatest more J. G. B. D. An ELEGIE On the Learned AUTOR THough yon' close Anchorite's contracted Shrowd Made his innarrowed Carcass seem a Crowd Yet the cag'd Votarie did wider dwell Then Thou in thy large Roof and spreading Cell Both liv'd alike immur'd but Mansion's space To Him was Emptiness to Thee was Place Which the Retirement's different Ends decide Thine was to Toil and Sweat but His to Hide Who though sat down contented with the Store Thou brought'st from Nature coveting no more Yet like a Wealthie Heir by that Advance Thou hadst liv'd high on thy Inheritance Who ere is born to an Estate to 's hand Is full as Rich as Hee that buie's his Land And such wert Thou but least free Nature's Gift Seem mis-bestow'd unless improv'd by Thrift 'T was thy strong care to melt down Native Parts And shape up great Endowments into Arts. Hence sprung Thy vigorous Pains unwearied Sweats Whil'st each past Toil edg to fresh Toil beget's Till thy torn Nervs stretch't in their Search before Grow suppler by 't and so put on for more And thy Bent Thought or'e his deep Object crack's Nor Torture bring 's but Patience from thy Racks Oft did the Sun ow Thee his Morning Streams And at thy Earlier Taper light his Beams When now declining in his West and gon Thou bad'st him sleep for Thou would'st Journie on When Midnight Silence did thy Motions see As Night were made for all the World but Thee Nor did thy watchful Temples harbour Rest Till thy great Monster-Scruples fell supprest Alcides scorn'd to deem his Labor sped Whil'st Hydra wore or threat'ning Tail or Head No emptie Surface-Learning could suffice No Light no Floating Notions bound thy Eies But down thy Plummet dive's to th' deepest sound Still mining through till it had prest the Ground Art hath her Quick-sands which no Hold endure Hee strike's the Bottom that will Anchor sure While dull wee finde the Found the same Mark hit The shackled Circumscription of Our Wit Thy unconfin'd Enquirie bid's at more Launches in deeps ner'e fathomed before Plough's the rough Desarts up scorn 's old Abode Or Prostitute Directions of a Rode Yet thy Nice Pilgrimage doth never straie But turn's the crooked Maze to Beaten-Waie So through wilde Seas the adventurous Keel is hurl'd Not to Loos this but Finde the other World Thy vigorous Brain releiv's from lazie Rust Disguis'd in Characters but more in Dust Graie Customs which our dead dismettled Sloth Gave up to surfet the undaring Moth. Craz'd Giants thus distressed Damsels hold Not by their strength but ' caus their Champion's cold Euclide and Ptolomie were so thine Own As the fair Building 's is the Corner-stone Whose beauteous Pile doth by the Basis clime Yet This preceed's in Worth though That in Time Astrologie so obei'd Thy Learned Eie As all the Wheels and Clock-work of the Skie By Curious Nature were asunder ta'ne To guid Thy Art and then set up again And when her Motions jar her staggering Team May fix afresh by Thy King Henrie 's Scheme The Sacred Hebrew thy Judicious Rage Pursu'd to finde it's Mystick Parentage With Keen and Eager yet with sated Flight Not to Ride-over but Ore-take the Light Rude Rabbines like rude Herbarists go to 't They mar the Plant by digging for the Root Thy Numerous Language could have circuit run T' Interpret Countries to the Travelling Sun Discours ' a his Rising to the Western Seas And phras'd his business with th' Antipodes Yet this bright Stock thy Bountie did afford As thy Disbursment still but not thy Hoard Not to amuse the Needie but supplie 'T was thy Dominion not thy Tyrannie Hence when I askt thy Torch to light my Waie And gain'd som Twilights from Thy Glistering Daie Thy Liberal Art the Labyrinth did undo With the same Cheer as I had been thy Clew Thy Candid Guidance back the Compass brought And call'd Mee Tutor still for beeing Taught Now these Loud Parts like a Shril-thundering Peal Which is the Belfree's Pride but not it's Weal Rent thy frail Tenement and made us see Thy Musick 's Excellence and Crueltie An Envious Gout the Leiger of thy Feet To aw thine Industrie laie arm'd to meet Thy wakeful Midnight-Watch and brought Thee back For each Raw Learned-Night a Fortnight's Rack And when the single Threats of one Diseas Bark at thy Vigilant Moons but not displeas When Customarie Anguish now sat by Like thy Companion not thy Maladie The Enraged Mischief made her Partie
mentioneth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 39 p. 62. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little Temple of Juno set upon a Table and turning towards the East This indeed is enough to declare the use of these Little Shrines in the Heathen Devotions but supplyeth not the main want of a like acception of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 passing as in the Text here in the diminitive sense of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without the addition of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the like 'T will be very hard to finde it so elsewhere And therefore make the more of this lucky passage in an old Scholiast upon Aristotle's Rhetorick Arist Rhet. Lib. 1. C. 15. Aristotle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Callistratus accused Melanippus for cheating the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of three Holy halfe-penny farthing The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are rendred by the Latine Interpreters fabri aediles or templorum constructores As if the Architecture of a Church were any one mans artifice The old Scholiast expounds the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Temple makers But that is saith hee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 certain small wooden Temples enshrined with Images they made to sell A like sense of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See in Codin De Officiis Aulae Constantinopol And such Temples as these abating the Materiall were the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Silver shrines not for but of Diana made by Demetrius and the Craftsmen to bee sold And the respect of this was that which moved the quarrell The great Goddesse indeed was pretended but at this time there was a solemne confluence of all the Lesser Asians to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Holy Games celebrated at Ephesus to the honour of other Gods but to Diana in chief And it must needs have been very much out of the Craftsmens way if it could have beene perswaded as Paul endeavoured to doe that these enshrined Idolillos of Diana so much bought up by the devout people were no Gods because they were made with hands And such a shrine as these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 7. vers 43. as the Lxx rightly translate that of Amos the Prophet c. 5.23 The Originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Siccuth or Succoth Malcecem that is not an Idoll so called as the vulgar and others but the Tabernacles of your King or Moloch Their King was Saturne whom the Persians and Arabians called Civan or Cavian as Aben Ezra truly observed and the Persian Glossaries make to appeare Predrom Copt C. 5. p. 147. The Aegyptians called him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as may be seen in the Coptick Table of the Planets The Idolatrous Jewes were to call a Heathen God by the Natives name Ciun or Civan The Natives were the Arabians in whose wildernesse they then were Therefore the Prophet retained this word But the Lxx as translating to Ptolomy rendred Rephan which St. Steven followed In these little Tabernacles they enshrined as the Ephesians those of Diana in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Figures which they made to worship it was the figure of a Planet The Figures of Saturne or the Starres of their God Rephan CHAP. XII Job 26.6 7. Hell if naked before him and destruction hath no covering He stretcheth out the North over the empty place and hangeth the Earth upon nothing THough Hell bee naked before Him that made it and yet hee made not death as to us destruction hath a Covering I have wondered much at the Curiosity how learned soever of some who undertake to set downe the subteraneous Geography of this place and describing it so confidently as if they had beene there already not the Gates and Chambers of death onely but the very points of the Compasse in that Region and shadow Rusca de infern c. and how many Soules may sit upon the point of a Needle I will onely put these men in remembrance of the Syriack Reading in the last verse where instead of those words but how little a portion 〈◊〉 heard of him that Translation rendreth Et qualis serme malus auditus est de eo which seemeth to confesse as if our best expressions of the workes of God were but in a manner to give the Maker ill language And if it be so then for men to speake of Hell as if it were Naked before us too is to give him the Lye But my businesse is to tell the meaning of Job in the next words He stretcheth out the North c. The North here is not to bee taken for the Terrestriall Globe as the Jewes would have it for they are deceived who thinke the latter clause to be a Repitetion of the former The North is meant of the Heavenly Expansum as the word extending sufficiently intimates And though the North onely be nam'd yet the whole spheare is meant And yet not onely for this reason as all thinke yet because the Northerne Hemispheare was principall as to Job's Respect and the Position of Arabia but because this Hemispheare is absolutely so indeed 't is principall to the whole for as the Heavens and the Earth are divided by the middle line the Northerne Halfe hath a strange share of Excellency Wee have more Earth more men more Starres more day And which is more then all this Ridley of Magneticall bodies and Motions C. 9. the North Pole is more Magneticall then the South For I have alwayes observed saith a learned man in this experience that the Pole of the Magnet which seateth it selfe North is alwayes the most vigorous an strong Pole to all intents and purposes This North that is the whole Firmament Hee stretched over the the Empty Place that is not the Aire as it useth to be said The word in the Text is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tohu This word signifies Nothing So the molten Images Esai 41.29 are said to bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wind and Tohu that is Confusion as we Or Wind and Nothing For therefore it is that Saint Paul said that an Idoll is Nothing in the world But especially it signifies that Nothing in the Chaos before the Aire or Earth was made as Genes 1. The Earth was Tohu that is Nothing or as the Lxx translate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 invisible or as the Saxon turneth it the Earth was y●ael idle Over this Tohu or Nothing it was that He stretched the North or Firmament and then hang'd the Earth upon the same Nothing But of this manner of appension somewhat more is to be said God in the beginning as Mercator deviseth strucke a Center in the Tohue or Inane indued with that quality as might call unto the congeniall parts of the Chaos which immediately applying themselves gathered into this Globe Which pretendeth as if the Frame consisted by an Equilibration of parts to the Center of Gravity as it continues
wee may but the Original is And thou shalt lie down with thy Fathers 2 Sam. 7.12 So Asa the King's Coffin is called a Bed 2 Chron 16.14 and our forefathers in their Saxon tongue style a Burying place legerstoƿ or place to lie down in as in the Laws of King Canute Numb 3. In the Case of Natural Rest 't is not the whole man onely the Earthlie part falleth asleep the Soul is then most awake The Bodie 's Night is the Soul's Daie our Better part saith Cardan is never it 's own man till now when exalted unto a State of Separation as it were in the bodie it spendeth the time in Contemplations free and congeniall to its own Extraction So in the sleep of Death 't is not the totus Homo the Bodie indeed is dead becaus of sin the Soul is then most Alive Here as a Servant it is still required to the Exigencies of the Bodie having no time of it's own to spend but what it can get by stealth when the Master is gon to bed But there like it's Redeemer free among the Dead and delivered from the Incumbrances of the Bodie it begineth to bee a Soul to it self minding that which is above and looking with a more piercing eie upon the Invisible things of God It is noted by the Naturalists and wee finde it true in observation that no nois awaketh Natural Sleep more suddenly then an Humane voice Nay though it bee that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that dead and dangerous sleep as the Aphorism noteth it in Hippocrates But especially the Experiment holdeth if the voice calleth upon him in his own name But that wee shall all bee awaked out of this other Sleep by the sound of our Proper Names is more then I can pretend to though S. Peter's call was Tabitha surge and our Saviour's to his Friend Lazare veni foras Lazarus com forth To saie nothing to Epiphanius his Tradition that when our Lord went down into Hell and there found our Father Adam fast hee took him by the hand and called him by his own Name in the words of S. Paul Surge Adam qui dormis so indeed som Antient Copies read it Arise Adam thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead Christ taketh thee by the hand But this I am sure of that wee shall all bee awaked by a voice the voice of an Archangel and the word shall bee as som think Surgite mortui c. Nor shall it bee the voice of a God and not of a Man it shall bee an Humane voice for by the Archangel wee are to mean the Son of Man For the hour cometh in which all they that are in the Graves shall hear his voice and shall com forth Job 5.28 Which why it should bee strange of us I know not since it is true of the Swallows by a certain and confest Experience that when the Winter cometh they lie down in the hollow of a Tree and there falling asleep quietly resolv into their first Principles But at the Spring 's approach they are not so though throughly dead but that they hear the stil nois of Returning Nature and awaking out of their Mass rise up everie one to their life again Ego novi hominem c. I know a man saith the Learned Prince of Concordia who in his soundest Sleep could walk talk write and dispatch anie business of the most required Vigilance They seem to have had som such conceit of Death who hold it no absurditie to write Letters to their dead Friends as the Emperor Theodosius to S. Chrysostom more then thirtie Years after his deceas as if Death were a kinde of live Sleep Such an one as that which Jupiter sent of an Errand to awake Agamemnon And may wee not as properly saie that to bee Dead is to bee Alive as to saie to Die is to bee Born And yet the Antients as if Corruption had been their Father and the Worms their Mother were wont to call the daies of their Death Natalia not Dying but Birth-daies Mos inolevit in sancta Ecclesia it hath been the custom in the holie Church saith Haymo when a Saint of God departed this life to call it not the daie of his Death but the daie of his Nativitie That which wee call Death's they call Life's door Seneca himself said as much Dies iste quem Tutanquam Supremum reformidas Aeterni Natalis est As if all this were so indeed the Jews to this daie stick not to call their Golgotha's Batte Caiim the Houses or places of the Living At the least they have an Effectual life in them for the Mummies are known to bee most soveraign and Magistral in Medicine and the Principal Ingredient of the weapon-Salv is the Moss of a dead Man's-skul as the Recipe delivered by Paracelsus to Maximilian the Emperor Once more and I leav the Parallel Sleep wee know is most natural to Animal-Creatures and for Men so Necessarie that Aristotle saith that the end of it in us is Bene Ratiocinari And yet hee himself is cited by Olympiodorus to have known a Man who never slept in all his Life And the strangeness hath been quitted by an Experience of later daies The Comparison holdeth in the Sleep of Death 't is Omnibus communis common to all men as wee use to saie And yet som Jews believ that the last age of Men shall bee so long liv'd as to prevent the Resurrection But S. Paul himself hath promised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that wee shall not all die som shall bee changed And therefore 't is no vain Article which wee so daily profess that our Saviour shall com to judg both the Quick and the Dead Wee are to saie then of all those that are departed this life as the Jews of their Father Jacob Non est Mortuus or as our Saviour of Lazarus and the Maid Why trouble you your selvs they are not Dead but Sleep And when a Friend leaveth this world wee are to bid him but Good Night in sure and certain Hope to meet again in the great Morning of the World But now How long how long Lord Holie and True will som saie or as those in S. Peter Where is the promise of his Coming For since the Fathers fell asleep all things continue to bee as they were from the begining to the Creätion But these Men have not the knowledg and this is to bee spoken to their shame The Lord is not slack as concerning his Promise for Behold hee cometh quickly and his Reward is with him When wee awake out of our natural sleep bee the Night never so long to us it seemeth but a Moment And the Night is no longer in the Prophet David's account Psal 30.5 For his Anger endureth but a Moment that is weeping may endure for a Night but joie cometh in the Morning 'T is no otherwise in Death for when first wee awake out of this sleep wee shall think that wee did but