in all the Earth This is the means whereby thou mayst come to have thy Son a crowned King and thy Daughter a crowned Queen in glory Follow the Gospel with thy prayers into America How do the fields there begin to look white to the Harvest how doth the Kingdom of Heaven begin there by the native Indians to suffer violence God grant the event may never be the taking the Gospel from us where too many seem weary of the Scripture Ordinances Duties c. and loath the Manna to give it to them How doth the Gospels success there rejoyce us especially if they be posterity of the Iews as many affirm that they are 9. The next Use is for Tryal It 's dangerous laying claim to Kingdoms when men have no good Title Our Chronicles * Straw Cade Tiler c. Kings are afraid of times Herod the great put to death 14000 infants as Josephus writes with intent to have killed the King of the Jews and did slay His three sons Alexander Aristobulâ—â—s Antipatoâ— His virtuous wife Mariaâ—â—ne for fear of losing His Kingdom Zec. 14. 20 afford many instances hereof and what it cost them in the end and is it nothing to claim a Kingdom of Heaven without title 1. Art thou spiritually anointed as we have said Psal 105. 15. 1 Joh. 2. 27. Oyl 1. Softens 2. Heals 3. That Oyl wherewith Kings were anointed had a sweet perfume c. So 1. Is thy heart softened doth grace sink as oyl Psa 109. 18. into thy heart or hast thou onely swimming notions in thy head or some outside reformation onely The Soul was first in sinning in converting in resurrection doth grace pierce thither is thy heart sincere in what thou dost A godly man hath an imbred gradual partial unwilling bemoaned hardness of heart which he complains of groans under Isa 63. 17. but not a total wilful unsensible hardness which ruines Zec. 7. 12. 2. Art thou healed in some measure from the raigning and damning power of sin Rom. 7. ult 3. Is thy life more sweet and savory thy speeches practices Is Holiness written upon them 2. Is thy minde princely set upon things above Col. 3 1. like Daniels windows towards Jerusalem It is not for you said Cleopatra to M. Antony to fish for gudgeons but for Castles and Kingdoms Are our mindes altogether set on and drowned in the Earth are we terrigenae fâ—atres inhabitants of the Earth Rev. 12. 12. opposed to the dwellers in Heaven whose names are written in the Earth Jer. 17. 13 and like Domitian follow catching of Flies Sure then we yet are not spiritual Princes for if such our mindes would run upon our Fathâ—r Mother Country House and Brethren above 3. Hast thou got a princely conquest over thy lusts so that they reign not over thee and that as well over that inside and spiritual wickedness which is perhaps minoris infamiae but majoris reatus as well as visible and shameful transgressions which fear or shame may restrain though the root of the matter be still within as unmortified as before A godly man is like Brutus his staff Cujus intus solidum aurum corneo valebatur cortice gold within and horn without or like the Ark gold within goats hair without c. I should have given you more evidences of spiritual Princes and of Gods hidden ones Psal 83. 3. their title to a Kingdom as also more Uses and a third Doctrine yet remains behind But the glass hath over-run me and I have learned from Luther Cum vides attentissime audire populum conclude c. When thou seest thine Hearers saith he most attentive then conclude eo alacriores redibunt so they will return more cheerfully the next time I add no more therefore but only conclude as Cyril doth his preface to his Catechism Meum est docere vestrum auscultare Dei proficere Paul may plant and Apollos water and now the great God give the increase FINIS
reproved for it by Jehu 2 Chron. 19. 2. yet he again makes friendship with Ahaziah 2 Chron. 20. 25. and marries his son to Ahabs daughter 2 Chro. 21. 6. and yet the Lord saith of him 1 King 22. 43. that he turned not aside from doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. How should this melting patience cause you to bless and act for this gracious God and to chronicle his mercies to posterity How often have I wished that Your Honor who have had during almost these ten years so perfect information of all the wonders of our God to and for his People in this Nation had Psal 107. 43. kept a perfect Diary thereof or if You have so done that You would communicate the same to the world which would be one of the rarest pieces of humane stories How wonderful and various have been the goings of our God in this Nation these ten years and still are like His dealing with His People of the Jews after their return from Babylon Zech. 14. 6 7. It was for a long time neither day nor night clear nor dark a man could not guess what a day it would be by the eye of sense but presently after a Sun-shine a Cloud and all this to shake off such as live by sense and not by Faith and serve themselves of God and the Publique as Jehu and Judas did and to let the Saints see that things are carryed on not by might nor by power but by the Lord of hoasts his own Spirit Zech. 4. 6. nevertheless in the evening time it shall be light And I am in the midst of a cloudy day the more encouraged when I consider 1. That the work is in the hand of a good and wise Master-builder who ever the instruments be In all these turnings there is a Spirit in the Wheels and the Wheels are full of eyes Ezek. 1. Secondly God sees and aims further then the best Agents and Instruments that are used in the work The Apostles did not see in the work themselves were imployed in so far as Christ meant but he lets them see more and more by steps and degrees what he would have done Mark 4. 28. So Ezek. 47. 3 4. and God hath led us along with a Cloud and Fire and owned us in the Mount and midst of straits Thirdly The light of the Truth I mean not Satans delusions and mens phansies but true Light much spreads in America New-England in Wales in the North c. Poor Creatures flock like Doves to the windows and the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence And if it be said so do Profaneness and Heresies spread I answer it was always so in times of Reformation till things could be setled Satan more struggles and when God is giving physick the disease more breaks forth Hos 7. 1. When did cursed Doctrines and Practices more break forth in the Old Testament then in Malachi's time when the Jews were returned from Babylon to reform Church and State in Canaan Mal. 3. 14 15. See Israel through the Wilderness Fourthly Compare former times impartially with these we shall finde thirteen fourteen or twenty years ago traps of several kindes layd for consciencious Ministers and Christians men durst not meet together to seek Gods face humble their Souls Sermons on Lords days in the afternoon weekly Exercises c. restrained the very face of piety discountenanced and they that wrought wickedness and most zealous against Puritans were exalted dumb dogs non-residents sports on Lords day c. favoured But how are godly men and godliness countenanced in good measure what happy alteration in our Vniversities for advance of piety though still more is to be wished And though too many Errors in some Members of our Armies yet see heretofore every Town generally sent such out to be Souldiers who were of the basest sort for drunkenness and villany that knew nothing compare our Army now with those here formerly and then judge without prejudice Fifthly Though mens â—ims were but little and strait at first as Luther said that when he first began he meant no more but to withstand Popish a Occasione â—â—â—dinatioâ—â—s indulgentiarum pretio numerato Lutherus initio fuit permotus ad hoc quod suscepit Reformationis opus c. Pardons and selling of Indulgences yet neither would God nor his Enemies let him alone till he resolved with Moses not to leave a hoof neither root nor branch of Popery So God and our Enemies heighten Your spirits Sixthly We hear what God is still working in bringing in many poor Natives in America whether they be the Posterity of the Jewish ten Tribes as Peter Martyr of old and b Mr Thorowgood others of late give very probable conjectures and if so Mr Brightman and others may well be owned for Prophets who above fourty years ago foretold the Calling of the Jews to begin about the year 1650. or whether they be Gentiles to embrace the Gospel with tears prayers marvelous zeal and Reformation And how have we seen the finger of God all along restraining the rage of men letting the Enemy vent onely so much fury as might conduce to Gods praise Psal 76. 10. He that stills the noise of the Seas stills the tumules of the People Psal 65. 7. The great God swaddles the mighty raging Ocean like a little Infant yea more easily then any Midwise can do the least childe in swadling bands Job 38. 9. and the Original word c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fraenum Capistrum used Mark 4. 39. for Christs stilling the winds and Sea signifies his putting a bridle in the mouth of the winds and Sea whereby he turns them about when most blustering and raging more easily then any man can do the nimblest horse He gathers the winds in his fist Pro. 30. 4. nods d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men to death Psal 80. 16. with a blast Job 4. 9. And how may all these experiments stir You up to trust God for the future and be sincerely active for God against Your own and the Nations sins and distempers as Henricus Auceps when he fought against the Hungarians made this Vow to God that if the Lord would give him a victory over his Enemies he would purge his Country from e Commonly so called else buying livings was not Simons sin Act. 8. 18 to 20. though usually called Simony Simony which then much raigned therein And I beseech you return the praise and glory of all not to Your selves or Armies but to the free mercy and goodness of God alone Pope Hadrian having built K. W. Rufus when two Monks came to him to buy an Abbots place each outvying other in great sums of money for it the K. asked a third Monk that stood by what he would give who answered never a peny for that it s against my Conscience said he to give any thing then said the King of all the
the praises of Solomon and his wife the daughter of Pharaoh King of Egypt for though Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred Concubines 1 King 11. 3. yet did he especially affect Pharaohs daughter 1 King 3. 1. The Jewish Rabbies say that one of the Articles in the agreement of marriage 'twixt Solomon and Pharaohs daughter was that she should forsake her Idolatry and blinde Superstition of Egypt and embrace the Worship and Service of the true God which Article seems to be alluded to here Vers 10. 11. but under the similitude of Solomons marriage with Pharaohs daughter is ultimately principally and mystically set out the Lord Christ his marriage with the Church as it is also in the Book of Canticles and even some of the learneder Jews are forced to confess that many things in this Psalm cannot be meant of Solomon and his Spouse but of the Messiah and his Church as vers 1. he speaks of the things touching the King but that King is God whose throne endures for ever Vers 6. So Vers 11. 18. and for the Spouse she is such a one whose chief glory lies within Vers 13. And for their Children though Solomon had a thousand Wives and Concubines yet we read but of one son whereas others who had but one wife had many sons and though Solomon was the wisest of all meer mortals since the Fall yet his son Rehoboam very foolish so that my Text cannot in the letter be meant of Solomon who had not children whom he might make Princes in all Lands nay the Kingdom ever went less after Solomons time But to put all out of question the Holy Ghost applies this Psalm to Christ and the Church Heb. 1. 8 9 c. So that this Psalm is a continued Allegory if not Type setting out under the similitude of Solomons marriage the neer and happy union and dear affection 'twixt Christs and all Beleevers and those precious children and choyce posterity that Christ begets in his Church by his Spirit and Word And here is First the commendation of the Bridegroom from Vers 1. to 10. for his beauty eloquence and art in soul-winning justice and meekness the glory of his garments and palace c. And then the commendation of the Bride Vers 10. to 15. and of the children converted and born again to Christ in the Church Vers 16. Who shall be Princes in all Lands Here then we have 1. implied A spiritual marriage 'twixt Christ and the Church 2. Their spiritual children and posterity 3. The royal dignity of these children that are converted and born to Christ in the Church they are Princes 4. The extent in all Countries places of the Earth where ever they dwell though in poor Cottages wandering in sheep skins and goat skins siting down with poor fare yet are they Princes in all the Earth 5. See the great honor that redounds to the Church hereby Domus mea a me incipiet tua vero in te desinet said Tully to the braging and prodâ—gal Roman whereas usually men brag and glory of their ancient pedigree moth-eaten antiquity though the Heathen Poet could say where that goes alone it 's a poor commendation Et quae non fecimus ipsi vix ea nostra voco yet men glory of their Ancestors and Families that they are sprung ab atavis regibus The Holy Ghost saith that this is a far greater honor to have precious Converts dayly born to God then all temporal pedigrees In stead of thy Fathers shall be thy children c. The first Point which is couched in the Text and runs through the whole Psalm I shall onely point at in transitu and so pass to the next is this That there is a spiritual glorious and happy marriage 'twixt Christ and his Church This is clear in all the Book of Canticles Ephes 5. Isai 54. 5. Rev. 19. 7. 21. 9. Qu. Wherein doth this spiritual mystical marriage consist Ans 1. Ex parte Sponsi on the Bridegrooms part who 1. makes his choyce and sets his heart on whom he will Amongst men we say that before marriage a man should suit his choyce to his minde viz. rightly regulated but after his mind to his choyce if ever he meant to have content or comfort in it And madness and life tedious without Christ Nihil mihi sapit in quo non sapit Jesus Christ A poor Soul loves to speak to him to hear him and hear from him loves his Word ways people all that savors of Christ loves nothing further then as it comes from or tends to or suits with Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 2. 2. 4. She desires never to part No the Soul doth not marry Christ till death them depart or till God shall separate them by death but takes him for life death ever The Soul never repenteth of this match save onely that he was married no sooner and counts all his time lost till then as one born out of due time 1 Cor. 15. 8. 5. The Spouse goeth to Christ the Husband for every thing she depends upon him upon 1. His Judgment for counsel and direction what to do in all cases 2. Upon His Eye and not mens eyes for approbation of all we do to God or men 3. Upon his Purse for maintenance and dayly supply in every grace and duty c. The Wife loseth her own name and is called after her Husband So it 's no more I saith Paul but Christ in me Gal. 2. 20. But I promised brevity herein and therefore I shall onely give a short touch by way of Application And first here is a Vse 1 ground of marvelous Comfort and Encouragement to all Beleevers and that in divers cases As 1. Against sin the worst of evils Christ the Husband must pay the debt Vxori lis non intenditur saith the Civil Law If a poor woman marry a Prince to whom she owed 10000 l. he may pay himself 2. Fear not final falling away Christ repents not of the match he fore-knew ere he married us what we were and would be If any fall would now break it it would have prevented it A true Beleever may fail and fall but 1. It 's but a particular guilt he is guilty as to that fact That thing that David did diâ—pleased the Lord but not a general guilt his estate is good and approved of God his general course and frame of heart is holy 2. It 's but the guilt of a Childe not an Enemy we may provoke a Fathers displeasure Exod. 4. 14. Psal 106. 32. but it 's not the wrath of a Judg to a Malefactor Rom. 8. 1. so as to cast him out for ever Joh. 8. 35. 3. We may go boldly to Christ our Husband at all times both in Life for counsel direction supply and in Death a Death in it self is the King of terrors Iob 18. 14 Sigismund the Emperor and Lewis the 11. king of France charged all their servants about them that all the
their Kingdom is not of this world 1 Cor. 2. 6 8. True it is that godly men as David c. may be temporall Princes but not Quatenus godly men and Christs seed And we had need to clear this for great temporall Monarchs are very fearfull of any claime to their Kingdomes or medling with their Titles Our Chronicles mention one Burdet a Merchant of London dwelling at the sign of the Crown in Cheapside in the dayes of our King Edward the fourth Anno 1483. who jestingly said to his Son that he would leave him heire to the Crown meaning the sign of the Crowne where he lived for which he was apprehended and within four hours hanged drawne and quartered for so saying Kings love not that men should Pulcheria the vertuous and discreet sister of Theodosius the second seeing her brother the Emperor to signe many writings without reading them caused a writing drawn and tendered wherein he consigned into her hands his wife Eudoxia formerly before Baptisme call'd Athenais a poor woman daughter of Leontig who seeking at the Court for Justice in a private cause took the Emperors affections was baptized and married him Eudoxia said it was too great a game to jest and play upon Diadems though the good Emperor much reformed by it jest with their Crowns how fearfully startled was Herod when he heard tell of some Wisemen asking for one that was borne King of the Jewes Mat. 2. 1 2 3 indeed worse afraid then hurt the Saints are not by vertue of their birth from Christ temporall but spirituall Kings though carnall men mens slander is very common that Gods people rebell and aime only to be temporall Kings Nehem. 6. 6 7. But know that it 's far better to be a spirituall Prince with God then meerly a temporall Prince over men Which will appear 1. Because the greatest Kings on earth have usually more crosses on earth then externall comforts there is a great vanity in the chiefest person and places on earth Psal 62. 9. The world hath now stood above 5000. years and the greater half of this time was spent ere the Jewes had any setled King at last about the year of the world 3761 God gave them a King Saul by name and there were but three Kings that governed and ruled over all the twelve Tribes viz. Saul David and Solomon and one of these viz. Saul came to a violent death slew himselfe though perhaps the Amalekite helped to dispatch him * If so then Saul who had been cruell to David 〈…〉 cruell to him self and he that spared the Amalekites and never prospered after is at last slain by an Amalckite 1 Sam. 15. 14 23. See Lightfâ—â—â— on that place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is onely used it 2 Sam. 1. 9. and signifies both 〈…〉 tremor vel argustre when his coat of male somewhat hidered his own spear from making that speedy end which he desired as the words in the Hebrew may be read 2 Sam. 1. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After these three Kings deaths the twelve Tribes were divided into two Kingdoms two Tribes clave to Rehoboam Solomons Son and Hâ—â—â— and made up the Kingdom of Judah and ten Tribes to Jâ—â—oboam Solomons Servant and made up the Kingdom of Israel Now after this division which began about the year of the world 2969. untill the captivity of Babylon and destruction of Jerusalem by Neâ—uchaâ—â—â—zzar there were but twenty Kings of Judah and of there eight suffered a violent death and of Israel before their lasting captivity 2 King 17. 6. there were but nineteen Kings whereof not one feared God among them all and of these nine died a violent death besides others imprisoned cruelly used c. In England since the coming in of the Norman William which is usually stiled the Conquest there hath been five and twenty Princes of whom nine came to a violent death and many more of those 109. Kings of Scotland I say it for this â—ad to shew what crosses and calamities do oft times attend great persons and places which cause their troubles to exceed their comforts which made Solomon complain of the vanity of vanities in all conditions Eccl. 1. before him his Father David say that he had seen an end of all perfection Psalm 19. 96. Nay see how somtimes Gods heavy hand goes out against a whole great Family or â—ine thus we find Ahab and Jezabel guilty of blood of godly Nabathe blood see what became of all that race â—nd line Ahab was shot to death by a man that shot at â—venture and timed not at him more then any other 1 King 22. 34. as he went up against Ramoth-Gilcad but it was purposely levelled fore-told and directed by God against Ahab 1 King 21. 19. as Elijah had told the King ere he went up thither so also Micaiah 1 King 22. 28. and Jezabel who was wife mother and daughter to a King even she was slain 2 King 29. 33. King Ahaziah son to Ahab never recovered of hâ—s fall through the Lettice 2 King 1. 2 16 17. then Ahabs other son Jehoram was King of Israel 2 King 3. 1. he goes against Ramoth-Gilead and takes it which his father Ahab could not do and having received some wounds in that service he leaves Jehu one of his Captains Commander in chief over his Army â—t Ramoth-Gilead and goes himself to be cured at Jezreel presently Jehu by Gods appointment 2 King 9. 1 2 3 7 8. c. drawes all the Army against King Jehoram his King his Master and his Master Ahabs son and slew him 2 King 9. 24 25. and that the blood of Naboth which Ahab had a hand in was a maine cause of all this appears because it 's expressed that in the same place where Naboths blood was shed both Ahabs and Iehorams blood was spilt 1 King 21. 19. and 2 King 9. 25 26. and so of Iezabel 2 King 9. 36 37. Athaliab the daughter of Ahab was married to Jehoram King of Judah 2 King 8. 16. 17 18. she was slaine 2 King 11. 16. her husbands bowells fell out 2 Chron. 21 18 19. none prospered that medled with that Line their elder sons were slain or carried captive by the Philistins and Arabians 2 Chron. 21. 17. and 22. 1. Ahaziah King Ahabs grandchild and some think he married againe into that stock 2 Kings 8. 27. he joyned with Jehoram in that war and after to visit him 2 King 8. 28 29. he was slaine 2 King 9. 27. and 42. of Ahaziahs brethren or kindred of Ahabs stock were slaine 2 King 10. 14. and seventy more of Ahabs sons and grand-children by severall wives were slaine 2 King 10. 1 7. so as none remained of that line and family 1 King 21. 21. see the like of Baasha another King of Israel his line 1 King 16. 11. Who hath not read the continued succession of calamities that attended Mary Queen of Scotland mother to the late King James 〈◊〉 her cradle to
said Joh. 4. 32. 7. Served as Princes Christ serves them Joh. 13. 4 5 6. Luk. 22. 27. Angels of Heaven serve them Hebr. 1. ult Devils and wicked men are scullions to them to scour them as Luthers phrase was 8. Their work is Princes work not drudgery but servire Deo est regnare Wicked men do the Devils work some without door as profane men some within doors as Hypocries The Saints do Gods 9. They shall judg the world ere long as great Princes 1 Cor. 6. 3. How many men are converted to God so many Judges are born into the world and therefore no wonder that they are so hated by wicked men Ere long Felix shall be Prisoner and Paul the Judg Herod the Prisoner and John Baptist the Judg Pharaoh the Prisoner and Moses Judg Mat. 19. 28. Pareus observes that Christians used to bring their causes to be tryed by the Bishops as supposed godliest and just after they claimed it as a right and so would be both Bishops and Princes Saints shall judg without sin 10. They shall ere long be crowned in glory as Princes Indeed the Saints in this life are in their nonage It 's chronicled as a great happiness of a Family in Ireland the Barons of Hoath that the heirs thereof for 400 years together were always at age before their fathers death but here the Saints are not at full age till their own death and then crowned in glory Onely take heed that we be not children of the Kingdom in profession onely but in truth else we shall be cast out Mat. 8. 12. Qu. If you ask how such poor sinful creatures come to be such great Princes Ans I answer 1. By birth as before Joh. 1. 13. 2. By Acts 20. 28 Ephes 1. 14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 People of Gods purchase 1 Pet 2 9 1 Cor. 6 20 marriage they marry unto the royal line Isai 54. 5. 3. By Purchase Christ bought it for them and them for it 4 By deed of gift Luk. 12. 32. Edward the sixth could not give his Kingdom away if he could it had not come as it did to Queen Mary but our Father can and will both that of grace and glory Psal 84. 11. Favor me right honorable and well-beloved with a little more of your patience and attention and I shall apply this briefly and dispatch the rest in few words And 1. It shews the happiness and honor of all the Saints such Vse 1 honor have they all Psal 149. 9. They are no base or vile persons Psal 15. 4. but mighty Princes There is not the poorest godly man alive would change estates with the greatest wicked man in the world for would great Princes change Estates with Beggars every wicked man though swelled as big as Nimrod or Pharaoh are Beggars and live upon the Alms of the Parish as I may say They are spared alive out of Hell awhile for the Saints sake God spares the Tares for the Wheats sake and Sodom for the Rightâ—ous sake if it be spared Job 22. 10. Nay wicked men are condemned already They are reprieved not from Assizes till the next Assizes but from moment to moment but the Saints though they walk on foot as Solomon observed Eccles 10. 7. are Princes They have much in present possession and much in reversion happy they no wonder they would not change not Moses with Pharaoh not John Baptist with Herod not Paul with Felix c. Time is coming when Haman would be glad to be Mordecai's Lacky as old World would have been glad to have been in the place of Noahs Dog when flood came The righteous is now more excellent then his neighbor Prov. 12. 26. and wicked mens Consciences convince them now but much more at the great Day Theodosius used more to glory that he was servant of Christ then that he was Emperor of the East So King David glories that he was Gods servant twice in one Verâ—e Psal 116. 16. Moses though dead not onely was but is so Josh 1. 2. 2. The next shews how joyful a day the day of our conversion Vse 2 is it 's our Coronation-day we then enter upon our dominion it was decreed before Time purchased in the fulness of Time but we are not crowned till our Conversion In every Town Parish Village so many as are converted so many Princes are in that Town Object But I cannot tell the day of my Conversion Ans But thou canst tell the day that thou wast unconverted and God hath wrought a change in thee A man knows he was born into this world though he cannot remember the day when and a woman knows that she was married though she cannot tell just the day and hour when it was 3. Bless God that would look on such poor creatures and Vse 3 raise us out of worse then the dunghil and make us great Princes Psa 113. 7 8. Oh that Christ would make those Princes in whom Satan once raigned and bound more then eighteen years Luk. 13. 16. 11. 21 22. 4. Then let us be exhorted to carry and behave our selves Vse 4 as Princes 1. Cry not for toys and trifles Was it not a great shame for a great Prince to weep and mourn for the loss of two or Monstrosares est sedes prima vita ima Bern. three pins poynts or sarthings Jerom tells of one Dydimus a godly learned Preacher who was blinde Alexander a godly man comes to him and asks him Are you not sore troubled and afflicted for want of your sight Oh yes said Dydimus it 's a great affliction and grief to me Then Alexander chid him saying Hath God given you that which is the excellency of an Angel of an Apostle and are you troubled for that which Rats and Mice and brute beasts have So hath God made us Kings and Princes to God and shall we mourn or murmur for these outward trifles c. 2. Are you Princes Away then with all base employments Is it no ashame to see Princes rake the channels turn Scavengers shovel the dirt c. The Heathen Romans did conceit that there was a filthy Hag or Witch called Lulla that strangled their children in the Cradle so that when the Nurses rocked the children to sleep they cryed Lulla abi Lulla abi Lulla begone avoyd whence to this day Nurses use at such times to sing Lullabie Let all spiritual Princes Isai 30. 22 say to all cursed lusts Begone get thee hence Shall they swear be drunk worldly No remember thou art a heavenly Prince 3. Envy not wicked men Shall great Princes envy the happiness of poor condemned and reprieved Beggars I have read of a Souldier that upon a strict command of the General that no Soldier should break into the Vineyards as they marched nor take any thing from that place upon pain of death he broke into the Vineyards and took onely one bunch of Grapes for which he was condemned and as he went to execution was