Both by his owne and M. Clarkes testimony to call in and produce Master Clank's own words for evident testimonie to his bounty and faithfulnesse in this particular He was the chief instrument to plant and establish the preaching of the Gospel in this congregation First by providing divers of Gods Ministers to preach here oftentimes when the Incumbent was growne old and decrepit afterward by maintaining a Preachet at his owne proper cost and charges And lastly by being a means to obtaine the place for me in reversion and allowing me the greatest part of my maintenance So that this Parish hath cause for ever to acknowledge him a nursing father of Religion amongst them and a blessed Instrument to bring in the light of the Gospell unto them when they sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death CHAP. XXIX NOw because popery and profannes two sisters in evill had consented Popish and profane Wakes aâ—… Tarum Paul Jov. Hist. l. 24. Calv. de vera ecclesrefor Ratione Bullsing de Origin err.e. 33.34 His godly care and labour to suppresse them and conspired in this Parish as in many other places together to advance their idols against the Arke of God and to celebrate their solemne feasts of their popish saints as being the Dii Tuteleries the speciall patrons and protectors of their Church and Parish by their Wakes and Vigils kept in commemoration and honour of them in all riot and excesse of eating and drinking dalliance and dancing sporting and gaming and other abominable impieties and idolatries this godly Gentleman being stirred in his spirit at these their grosse superstitions and much grieved in heart at their grievous misdemeanors and disorders knowing well that the customes of the people were raine yea and vile also poysoning their mindes with erriours and corrupting their hearts and lives with base lusts and the bitter fruits thereof And fearing lest their carnall joyes and delights in these fleshly and earthly things might make the Heavenly Manna to seeme as light bread unto them and the wholesome food of life more unsavoury and distastfull than otherwise it would have beene By a more plentifull and powerfull use of the Word preached This Gentleman I say to prevent these mischiefes and procure the peoples good did usually at these times bring in and set up the Arke of God in greater pomp and power amongst them to bring downe and break in peeces their Dagon so much admired and adored by them So hee did and prevailed in so doing Against S. Andrews day which is the time of Tarum Wakes and the weeke following I observed saith he many yeares together to invite two or three of the best affected Preachers in the Diocesse that spent most part of three dayes in preaching and praying in the Church Whereby he prevailed and blessed God so as the Pipers and Fidlers and Beare-wards and Players and Camesters had no time left them for their vanities but went away with great fretting and yet multitudes of well affected people filled the Towne and the Church and that with much rejoycing blessed be God O what and how great comfort and contentment did this godly man take in discountenancing and suppressing so farre as hee could all popery and profannesse With rejoycing together with all the instruments abbetters and maintainers of the same O how great was his rejoycing and solace when by any care cost or labour hee might refresh the bodies and rejoyce the soules of Gods people either by corporall or spirituall repast And feasting provided and prepared for them To which end as it is well knowne at one of these times besides all other provision there was spent in his house a fat Beife and a half within the space of three days upon godly and well affected people and his Cook did then relate unto him Of Gods people Such was his desire to doe good his delight in the Saints his joy in the house of God and love to his service that all other things in comparison of these were but losse and drosse and dung unto him O Renouncing all fellowship with sinne and sinners how truly might he say with David Away from me all yee workers of iniquitie I will keepe the commandements of my God I hate all vaine inventions but thy Law doe I love all my delight is in the Saints and in such as excell in vertue I was glad when they said unto me let us goe up into the house of the Lord our feet shall stand in thy gates O Jerusalem How well did he herein imitate the example of Christ And herein following the example of Christ Iesus who at the feast of the dedication of the Temple though it were no divine but a humane constitution tooke occasion notwithstanding upon the frequent concourse of the people to teach and preach the Gospell of the Kingdome unto them and whiles they sought after carnall things to please their flesh to minister unto them spirituall to profit and doe good unto their soules Nether doe I speake this to justifie or approve these festivall solemnities Bulling de Origin 〈◊〉 c. 35.114 for the anniversary commemoration and celebration of Saints and Martyrs and dedication of Churches which savour rancke of the caske and smell hugely of the vessels of Judaisme Paganisme and Papisme Lib. Inter. cap. de Ceremoniis See Bullin de orig â—r cap. 36. sol 113. whence they were first drawne 〈◊〉 derived for so I should condemne many both Fathers and Councels that have condemned and inhibited the like Wakes and solemne Assemblies at such times and to such ends which they called their Vigilias and Encania and that for the same errours abuses enormities and villanies that wee doe now condemne them for But I speake it to the just commendation of this worthy Gentleman D. Rain de Idol l 2. c. 3 13. and for the faire provocation of other Gentlemen also of like power and place by his example is doe what they can to suppresse and abolish all such Wakes and festivals and if they cannot doe that yet to make the best of the worst by standing against them striving both by courage and countenand to disgrace and disappoint them and to bring in better meanes of mercy and of grace either to water or to plant the Uineyard of the Lord which is before them CHAP. XXX ANd this I doubt not Nine reasons against popish and profane Wakes Hieronin Mat. 23. but they would be more easily induced and perswaded to doe if they did advisedly consider of these or the like reason which might rectifie their judgements in these things 1 That the celebration of such Wakes and festivals is utterly destitute of all warrant of Gods Word for who hath requited these things at their hands Isay 1. Rom. 14. ult Lih. Inter. cap. de Cer. Bulling de Origine excap 35. p. 111. And whatsoever is done without warrant 〈◊〉 never be done with any comfort or good
life from me Well these drunkards whoremasters do not think upon their sins well how then There is no drunkard that doth drink one spoonefulor drop of drink more than doth suffice nature but the Devill doth pen it down in his book Well it is a great book and he doth keep it close untill the day of Indgement And then he will lay it to their faces At which time the hils will tremble and quake and the Devill will quake yea he doth quake for feare now Well some would think it a great while to be bound with the Devill as I am a 12 month or 2 yeares but it is better to bee so than to wallow in drunkennesse swearing and whoring for the Divell doth worke in their soules Well some will say how can the Devilly in so little a room Well the Devill is as the wind for when he did take a man away out of a chamber be came in at the little hole but how did he take him away even out at the top of the chimney Well there are some Papists and some Atheists and some of no Religion woe be to those that dye suddenly for they have no time to repent and especially those that live in drunkennesse or whoring or swearing Iesus saith they say hee shall not out of me but when God comes he will strike home Many and many other more of his strange speeches I passe over contenting my selfe with these few which were taken from his own mouth by the hand under the testimony of faithfull witnesses some at one time and some at another as he himself did then deliver them and as this worthy Gentleman hath in his diligent Observation of this amongst other of Gods Iudgements made mention of them and recorded them This therefore that hath been spoken shall suffice concerning the second daily duty which this Gent performed namely his carefull observation of Gods ways and works mercies and judgements amongst the sons of men CHAP. XLVIII His private invocation THe third followeth viz. His Religious invocation of the Name of God every day Now although it be true that he did very constantly performe this duty every day morning and evening with his Family as formerly wee have heard yet did he not hold that sufficient for himselfe unlesse he did open his heart and poure out his soule in private before the Lord making his requests known unto him Phil. 4.6 in all manner of supplications with Thanksgiving And this he desired and endevored to perform according to the Apostles direction 1 Tim. 2.8 In every place lifting up pure hands without wrath or doubting that is in faith and love For hee did not confine himselfe for his private Prayers unto any one place Not confined to one place neither within doores nor without but ever tooke his fittest opportunity as time and place might best move him or leade him unto this Duty Following herein the holy example of Christ and of other holy men setting themselves a part for this service sometimes in and upon the higher roomes of the house with Peter sometimes in the field with Isaac Acts 10.9 Gen. 24.63 Luc. 22 39 40. Eph. 3.13 14. Nehem. 2.4 sometimes in the mount and sometimes in the garden with Christ Iesus sometimes in the Prison with Paul and sometimes in the Palace with Nehemiale sometimes upon his journey with Iacob sometimes at the end of it Gen. 28.20 Gen. 24.12 Psal 6.6.9 Act. 10.30 with Eliezer somtimes on his bed with David and somtimes in his closet with Cornelius If he were in his own house or about home he had divers places which he interchangeably used for this purpose because hee would not bee too much observed to frequent one place lest he should draw himself into some suspition of vanity or hypocrisie Hee had variety of Closets Studies Chambers and other convenient roomes if hee were within and if he went abroad he had his Gardens Orchards Arbors Groves Woods and Fields Walkes and Shades where he did delight to speak and commune with his best friend and to seek the face and favor help and succour of his heavenly Father in and through the mediation of his Son Christ Iesus And as he was choice of the place so was hee carefull of the time which he constantly set apart every day for his private prayer His time for private praver Fsal 119.164 Seven times a day and praise 7 times a day did hee reverently and conscionably performe this duty causing his prayers to ascend as incense and the lifting up of his hands to be as an Evening Sacrifice The severall seasons and times he tooke were these The first in the morning before any of his family were stirring being usually first up in the house Psa 55.27.7 and that both Summer and Winter The second was before his breake-fast after prayer in his family The third was immediatly before dinner The fourth a little while after dinner The fist a little before supper The sixt not long after supper And the seventh a little before hee tooke his Chamber to go to his rest Neither was he only so plentifull for the number of his spirituall Devotions as he was by the grace of God powerfull in the manner measure end and issue of them Powerful in prayer Rom. 8.26 27.1 Iohn 5.14 I am 5.16 2 Cor. 12.7 For being full of Faith and of the holy Ghost he could speake unto God by his own spirit in his owne words according to his owne Will and in the name of his own Son And so we know he could not but speake wel and speede well either finding that which hee craved and sought for at Gods hands or obtaining more than all that he could desire or deserve My grace is sufficient for thee And herein we are the rather induced thus to thinke because usually his prayer was fortified by Faith supported by Hope inflamed with Zeale beautified with Humility purified by Sincerity and established by Constancy Now unto his Private Praying he did usually upon some extraordinary occasion his own or others adjoyne private Fasting His private Fasting which hee was very frequent and fervent in and that with so great austerity that he did much weaken his body as well as afflict his soule thereby as sometimes Timothy did in the like case 1 Tim. 5.23 Eusebius hath reported recorded it Euseb c Hist lib. 2. cap. 23. of Iames the Iust that with often and continuall bowing of his knees before the Lord for himselfe and the people in earnest fervent prayer for remission of their sins he hath so lost the sense and feeling of his knees that they were as hard and so as sensles as the knees of a Camell I will not compare this Iohn with that Iames neither for sanctity of heart nor for austerity of life Tender prayers and hard knees But for their Affections and Actions Prayers and knees tendernesse of the one
plerunque forvescit suis horrattbus duplicante Hieron adver ViglaÌ„t His childhood The greater must needs be both the sinne and shame of many of our Gentlemen who are so far from repressing such corruptions or restrayning such lusts and lewd courses in their children that they do not only lead and draw them by their countenance and example but hale and force them by their commands and threats into the base fellowship of such sinnes and sinners Bis peccat qui exemple peccat his offence is double that offends himselfe and by his bad example causeth others to offend also When he was about the age of six or seven yeares his Father for some offence or fault did rebuke him sharpely and correct him soundly and being then in much griefe of heart for his Fathers displeasure and desiring to see some meanes of comfort and reliefe tooke unto him a little prayer book which at that time he had learned and went apart into his Fathers Chappell and there by reading and praying aswel as he could was comforted with unexpressible joys His Prayers These be his own words and he addeth But being but a child I knew not what they meant And the next day I went to the same place using the like means but found not the like comfort What I should think upon a childs Prayers and such unexpressible joyes upon the same I cannot well tell yet do I remember what Austine reporteth of himselfe being but a child that observing others to pray unto God he learned to thinke and conceive of God as some great and mighty one Like Austins who though he were not known by sight Aug. confes lib. 1â— 9 lib. 3.4 yet could both heare us and helpe us at his pleasure Nam puer coepi rogare te auxilium refugium meum rogabam te parvus non parvo affectâ—… ne in Scholâ vápularem For being but a child saith hee I began to pray unto thee my help and my refuge and I prayed a little one with no little affection that I might not be beaten at Schoole Hee that out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hath ordained himselfe praise may also put some good motions of his Spirit even upon the hearts of children and cause them to open their lips in prayer which hee that worketh in them knoweth how to accept from them what answer to make unto them according to his wisdom and good pleasure And if we acknowledge that the elect of God in the Sacrament of their new birth being but infants may and do receive the seale of Gods Spirit in their soules which worketh in them though secretly and strangely yet effectually and truly some measure of saving Grace and Faith in Christ Jesus Why may we not thinke that some sparkles of this holy and heavenly fire Children may have good motions may upon occasion no wand then break out from the hearts and lips of young children being the elect of God though by reason of their weaknesse of understanding and wanâ— of judgment they neither know whence they are nor what they meane Samuel being but a childe ministred unto the Lord before Eli when as yet hee knew not the Lord 1 Sam. 3.1.7 neither was the Word of the Lord revealed unto him Yea hee had communion and conference with the Lord when the Lord called Samuel Samuel and he answered Speak Lord for thy servant heareth Wee are not I know to look for such revelations in these dayes yet seeing the Lord is Liberrimum Agens not bound himself though he bind us to the use of his ordinary means hee may at his pleasure make sweet impressions of his Spirit and Truth even upon the mindes and hearts of young children As I make no doubt but he might doe upon the heart of this his servant being yet a childe when first he was so sensible of his fault before his father that he was much displeased with himselfe because he had displeased him Secondly in filiall obedience and patience submitted himselfe quietly to his fathers sharpe rebuke and severe correction And lastly when he had recourse unto the Lord by such meanes and helps of prayer as he had both for pardon of his sinne and comfort of his soule in that affliction Some seedes of grace in his childhood Which now I am the rather induced to thinke of him because it is well knowne that being often asked in his riper age of the time of his calling and of his conversion when it first began his usuall answer was Even of a child little Aug. Confes l. 3. c. 4. Hoc nomen Chri. c. The seeds of grace in some measure might then be sowne which untill they were farther increased by knowledge and judgement watered by the Word and warmed by the Spirit lay hid under the corruptions of nature and lusts of youth as under clods of earth for a time but afterwards brake out in the fruits of an effectuall Calling and Conversion in due season CHAPTER III. ANd so indeed or not much otherwise it fared His youth and fell out with this Gentleman in his tender years who for want of a Schoole-master at home was sent by his parents to his Vncle Dutton of Dutton there to be taught and trained up under one James Roe who kept Schoole there at that time where he continued a Scholler and Tabler for the space of three yeares A great family and of great liberty Something he got for Grammar learning a little it may be for civill education but nothing at all for nurture and information in true Religion There His dancing and then by occasion of Musitians and a chest of Viols kept in the house he was drawn by desire and delight into the Dancing-schoole where he profited so well in that kinde of youthfull activity that he did not only please himselfe too much but his parents also much more than was meet with those tricks of vanity Isucrat Oral Areopag Hieron ad Laetam So he termeth those exercises himself and yet saith hee they were held commendable in those dayes of ignorance Venena non dantur nisi melle circumlita vitia non decipiunt nisi sub specie umbr áque virtutum Poysons are not given but sweetned with honey and vices doe not deceive but under the shew and shadow of vertue Sober and single dancing of men apart and women apart hath had his use and praise also not only among the Heathen but amongst the people of God when by the nimble motions and gestures of the body Ambr. in Luc. lib. 6. cap. 7. Tertul de Spectac cap. 21. Origen in cap. 14. Matth. in cap. 12. ad Rom. Amb. in 1 Cor. cap. 10. in Luc. lib. 6. cap. 7. de Virgin lib. 3. they have expressed the great joyes of their hearts for some good of their owne or to set forth Gods glory But mixt dancing of men and women with light and
part in the suffering or in the doing of them His fits and passions His fits and passions were much after this manmer Being brought so low so weak and feeble for any naturall strength that hee was nothing as we say but skin and bones yet for the space of 24 houres every day having one halfe houre which they called his awakening time wherein they gave him a little refreshing by some food to susteine him he shewed himselfe to be of that extraordinary strength that if he would fold his hands together no man could pull them asunder if he did roll his head or tosse his whole body as usually he did no man could stay or restrain him hee would with marvellous astonishment to the hearers and beholders somtimes howle like a Dog mew like a Cat roare like a Beare froth and some like a Boare When any prayed with him his passions were the strongest and his rage and violence the greatest ready to fly in their faces and to drown their voyces by his clamours yellings and outcries If one came neare him with a Bible though under his cloak and never so secret yet would he run upon him and ramp upon him with great violence to have gotten it from him and to rend it in peeces as he did divers when hee could come unto them Sometimes he would lye along as if he had been stark dead his colour gone and mouth so wide open that he would on a suddeine thrust both his hands at once into it His gestures and actions And as for his gestures they were marvellous strange In so great weaknesse hee would leape and skip up and down from his bed unto the table from the table to the window from the window to his bed again and all with that nimblenesse and quicknesse as scarce any professed Tumbler could do the like And that which maketh the matter yet more admirable having all this while his legs grown up close unto his buttocks whereof he could now have no present use for such feats of activity Sometimes we saw his chin drawn up unto his nose so that his mouth could scarce be seen Sometimes his chin and brows drawn almost together like a bended Bow His countenance fearefull by yawning mowing c. Hee was brought to the Bishop The poore Child being thus tormented the Bishop for his better satisfaction hearing so much of his strange affliction sent for him His parents brought him And once the Bishop prayed with him when the boy was so outragious that he flew out of his bed and all his men were affraid and one of them fell into a sownd and then such a stir about him that the Bish was glad to lay hold on the boy ramping at the windows to have gotten out that way But they could not find him a counterfeat as some imagined The Bishops Licence for a private fast for his release Afterwards this Rev. Bish being moved with compassion towards the boy did grant a Licence himselfe together with the High Commissioners for a private Fast in his fathers house for his better help and release according to Gods good pleasure and that in these words Having seen the bodily affliction of this child and observed in sundry fits very strange effects and operations either proceeding from some naturall unknown causes or of some Diabolicall practises We thinke it convenient and fit for the ease and deliverance of the said child from his said grievous affliction that Prayer be made publikely for him by the Minister of the Parish c. And that certein Preachers namely these following M. Gerrard M. Harvy M. Pierson c. these and none other to repaire to the said chid by turnes as their leisure will serve and to use their discretion for private Prayers and Fasting for the ease and comfort of the afflicted c. Ric. Cestren David Yale Griffith Vaughan Hugh Burches According to the tenour of these directions Master Bruen telleth us who did joyne together in Prayer and Fasting to that end Master Harvy and M. Pierson saith hee two godly Preachers were with him prayed and fasted My selfe also and some 20 or 30 more But God gave not deliverance at that time Now as for his Speeches strange in themselves 3 His Speeches yet more strange in this that hee never uttered any of them but when he was in his fits without any understanding or knowledge of what he did or what he said I will give you a taste of some few of them Jesus saith so he usually began his Speeches The Devill when he comes takes away my hearing seeing understanding hands legs that I should have no senses nor lims to glorifie God withall Jesus saith If they would have cast out the evill spirit they should have come better provided Jesus saith Some men did think that he that prayed had a better Faith than the other but he had not Jesus saith I have but three Divels It is like one of the spirits will go out of me and go and take counsel of a great number of foule spirits and come againe and trouble me worse Jesus saith Some folke will say that the Witch will not looke one in the face but shee will look here a way and there a way And so he turned his hands this way and that way Jesus saith The witch saith shee hath done mee no hurt that she knows of A witch may overlook a child but shee cannot make him in such a case as I am in The Devill is affraid when hee heares any word that he must be cast out then he quakes Iesus saith Now the witch would faine undo that which shee hath done but now shee cannot undo it Jesus saith Some say if I were bewitched or possessed I could neither move my tongue nor my lips But the Devill can move both my tongue and my lips Satan I am bound to a hard prentice-ship for thou wilt not give me leave neither holy-day nor work-day to eat a morsell of bread The Papist that brought the stinking weed and laid it to my nose if God had not had a stroke in this would have cast out the Devill And a boy was confederate with him Now the Devill is possessed of their soules And he must continue a little while with me but a great while with them God puls the Devill back with a ring in his nose yet the Devill shakes my faith as if it would go out of mee They may know there is some ill thing in mee for when I should say may prayers he would come up and stop me and then I must stay a little and then again and he would stay me Being in a sore fit and a great rage biting his own hands gnashing with his teeth foming like a boare and casting blood and filth out of his mouth hee uttered these words Proud witch witch proud I will tell you who these witches work all upon life all upon life all upon life but they cannot take my
every company either to do good unto others or to receive good from others 5 The fifth Iust dealing A good intention to deale justly honestly and uprightly with all men doing no otherwise unto them than we would have them to do unto us 6 The sixth Take all to the best An honest disposition to take doubtfull things in the best sense and best part so farre as well we may without wound of conscience in our selves or offence giving unto others 7 The seventh A carefull watchfulnesse over our heart and tongue spirit and speech that our words being powdered with salt Watchfulnesse may minister grace not griefe unto the hearers 8 The eight To bee sparing in speech A great willingnesse to be slow to speake and swift to heare yea sometimes to heare and see much and to say little unlesse we have a good calling thereunto 9 The ninth Renouncing all worldly fashions and humours An utter renouncing of all the vaine conformities of the world neither following the fashions nor serving the humours of vaine or vile persons nor staying longer than needs wee must amongst them if by occasion we be in company with them 10 The tenth Peaceable A good inclination to seeke and follow peace with all men so farre as in us lieth and so farre as it may be had and held with holinesse cutting off all occasions and provocations to strife and variance with all speed that may be 11 The eleventh Contentednesse in every estate A contented minde and good courage in every estate and condition of life entertaining all crosses with patience and turning them to their best use and embracing all comforts with thanksgiving bearing and bringing forth the right and proper fruit of them 12 The twelfth and last To keep our peace with God An unfained desire and endeavour to nourish our peace with God walking as Abraham did humbly and uprightly before him and referring all that ever we think speak or do to the furtherance of our own reckoning and to his farther praise and glory According to these and other the like rules of righteousnesse and holinesse he was taught of God to order his conversation aright in the feare of God Iam. 3.13 And thus he attained unto some measure and degree of that wisdome and grace which S. Iames commendeth so well and worthily in a found Christian Who is a wise man and indued with knowledge among you Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meeknesse of wisedome For so did this Gentleman work and walk even according to that wisdome which is from above the properties whereof are very precious For it is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie CHAP. LI. AND here I thinke it will bee well worthy our labour and paines if for the better confirmation hereof we measure this Gentlemans life by this line of heavenly wisdome and take a speciall view of these jewels of grace which being attendants upon it in his person did much beautifie and adorne that which now we speak of his holy and religious conversation He endeavoured to be pure First therfore according to this wisdome which God had given him from above he endeavoured to make his conversation pure and holy answerable to that religion which he did professe which by the testimony of the Holy Ghost is pure and undefiled before God and the Father and as here it is said it is first pure He was no doubt well atquainted with his naturall corruptions Psal 51.5 Rom. 7.20 23 24 Act. 1â— 15 passions and pollutions of sinne both originall and actuall inward and outward spirituall and corporall and knew that though hee should wash himselfe with snow water yet could he not say My heart is clean 2 Cor. 7. 1 Job 9.30.31 Zac. 13. 1. Ezek. 36. 26. Rev. 1.6 Rev. 7.14 1. Cor. 6.11 1 Pet. 1.15 I am cleansed from all my filthinesse so long as he did bear about with him a body of sin and of death And yet he knew as well also that the Lord having opened the fountaine of Grace unto him and powred cleane water upon him and washed him in the blood of Christ both for the remission of his sinnes and for purging away the pollution of them He was no longer to be held polluted and uncleane but holy and pure in his person through Christ and so ought to strive to be more and more in all manner of holy conversation And therefore hereunto Act 24.16 hee did ever most carefully and conscionably endeavour himselfe that being espoused to one husband 2 Cor. 11.12 hee might preserve and present himselfe as a chaste virgin unto Christ Jesus 1 Pure in heart Mat. 5.8 2 Cor. 7.1 Eph. 4.28 To which end he laboured to bee first Pure in heart knowing that Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God And this he did by faith and repentance and the helpe of Gods spirit every day purging out old sins and renewing the beauty of former graces 2 To be pure in hand free from all iniquity and injury and so washing his hands in purity 2 Pure in hand 1 Tim. 2.8 and innocency he was ever ready in every place to lift up pure hands unto God and to compasse his Altar 3 Pure in tongue Eph. 4.29 Esa 19.18 Psal 37.30 3 To be pure in lips and tongue never suffering any rotten speech or unseemely word to fall from him but having his language as pure as the language of Canaan his tongue did oftentimes speake of judgement and his speeches were sometimes as the very Oracles of God 4 To be pure in his senses 1 Pet. 4 11 Aug. Conf. lib. 10. Cap. 34. Iob. 31. 1. Psal 119.37 his eyes hee made a covenant withall to restraine them from wanton lookes and to shut up those windowes against all spectacles of vanity And then only or especially to open them when they might serve as necessary lights unto the body or to behold the workes of the Lord that so he might be the better by them His cares were circumcised Aug. Conf l. 10. c. 33. Rev. 2.7 Hos 14.8 1 Thes 4.4 nailed to the posts of Gods house bored by the spirit of grace for audience and obedience to heare what the spirit speakes unto the Churches What have I to doe any more with idols I have heard him I have observed him 5 To be pure in his whole body Iude v. 23. 2 Cor. 7.1 2 Tim. 2.21 ever preserving and possessing his vessell in holinesse and in honor and hating the very garment spotted by the flesh 6 To be pure in the whole man both soule and body which he performed very effectually when clensing himselfe from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit Amaremte Juelle si noÌ„ esses Zuinglianus â—e eticus fide vitâ certè videris angelus