in baptisme forbids it L ooke to the innumerable savours where with God hath blessed us graced and honoured us and we shall find them sufficient to oblige us to obedience E ither the name of Saviour in our salvation or the name of Judge in our confusion some way this honourable name will strike upon us F eare God more and we shall feare all other things lesse turne all thy feare into the feare of God for he will honour them that honour him T ill we have put our sins to the worst we shall never get the better of our enemies for God will not be wanting to us if we be not wanting to him and our selves W hen rebellions abound punishments are full of variety God destroyed Corah by fire the Canaanites by the sword the whole earth by water H ee little loves Christ that will not love him without company and his zeale is cold to heaven whom the example of numbers can turn away E very true childe is obedient and will follow his fathers directions then if we follow not God we are bastards E very promise of God is a cordiall able to fetch backe a swooning soule there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ is a sweet cordiall L et every Christian soule on the holy feet of faith and obedience travell towards Jerusalem then Christ will say thou shalt have my company E arth is more honourable and brave in the spectators then in the spectacle but the glory of new Jerusalem the splendor of righteousnesse is farre more honourable A s a traveller passeth from Towne to Towne till he come to his Inne so the Christian from Grace to Grace till he come to Heaven B lessed is that man that is holy nothing can make that man poore for he graceth all conditions honours and places O ne grace opens the doore for another for God is never weary of blessing where he hath once begun V ivification and living unto grace comes only by mortification and dying unto sinne for by the death of the body comes the life of glory T here is nothing for which Christ will reward us but that whereby his glory is the greater for us such as in great tribulations confesse him R eprobates and wicked men if their bodies were like their soules they would grovell like beasts A s God shews mercy to some in their salvation so it is fit he should shew justice upon others in their damnation N othing can defend against the arrows of God neither are the strongest Cities shot-proofe for things ordained for refuge are by his justice made destructive K nowledge neglected brings great judgements for he that cloaks error with ignorance binds two sins together and receives double vengeance S innes of ignorance stand in need of mercy but what cloake is long enough to cover sinnes against knowledge O f servants they are in worst case that are sold but worse that do service in prison worst of all bound in fetters such is the condition of the ungodly P estilence should not be more avoided then the conversation of the mis-religious or openly prophane E xpiation was offered for the world and offered to the world but those that are blessed by it are separated from the world N othing so sure as there shall be a judgement such as is the conscience such shall be the sentence B oasting of sin when it is done doubles the lewdnesse wicked men glory in that which shall everlastingly cast them from glory A Canon doth not so much hurt from a wall as a myne under the wall nor a thousand enemies that threaten so much as a few that take an oath to say nothing C hristianity is become the footstoole of policie and hath made bargaines with the World for universall Monarchy Religion being but the labell to that Indenture K nowledge is not wholly exercised with good nor wholly taken up with evill but it knows both good and evill thus man thought to have become like God and became indeed like the Devill W ee know Christ to be the best Counsellour therefore undertake nothing without consulting at his Oracle A whole garment is more hand some then a broken one but a broken heart is more pleasing to God then a whole heart R epentace is the necessary way to salvation it is the will of God that none should perish yet withall it is his will that all shall perish except they repent D estruction would not fall upon the wicked unlesse they first by their wickednesse bring it upon themselves O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self T he imitaters of evill deserve punishment the abetters more but there is no hell deep enough for the leaders of wickednesse O ur owne feet carrie us to sin we love the journey our affections seduce us and so have been our undoing Y f there will come no period to the rebellion of the wicked till they sinke downe to hell yet for shame know no date of thy obedience till thou come up to heaven O f all victories love is the greatest to overcome evill with good is to be like God whose Image we beare in our creation and to whose Image we are restored in our redemption U pright justice is without equivocation it seeks not to obey God for mans sake but man for Gods sake it obeyes men but never against God R ighteousnesse and all happinesse is in the will of God to his creature for holinesse is the daughter of repenance O ur persons are justified by our faith our faith is justified by our charity our charity by the actions of a holy life R emember that there is nothing that makes a man so unlike to God as a hard heart without pity without patience D iligence and patience with painfulnesse are good but it is the sincerenesse of the heart that commends the rest E very Christian souldiers scutchion must be patience and his motto I serve Angells are glad of this title R emember the end is neare thy end nearer whether the end of this shall not be the end of all thy dayes thou hast no assurance to day then heare his voice repent one day before thy last day O ld age were better gather grace for themselves then goods for their posterity for it is their last time of gathering R eward belongs to labourers not loyterers the Crowne is laid up not for cowards but for Conquerers O into what infortunate times are we fallen when all our wrongs must be answered in blood P ray and repent repent and pray joyne with them abstinence adde to them three patience faith obedience and amendment of life and the Lord our God will deliver us E very man kisse that hand that strikes us love God that crosseth us and trust in that power that kills us this is the honorable proof of a Christian N o man is the worse for his repentant grief if the evill do come its labour well spent if not its a labour well
we shall bee O pinion of the minde are like diseases of the body all alike infinite V iolent passions makes men bandy controversies who fight with their Pens like Souldiers with their Pikes wounding the peace of the Church R eligion is more practicall then theoriticall rather an occupation then a meer profession dwelling like an Artizan wit at singers end O ne man is an Atheist and beleeves no God another is an I dolater and worships many one will be of a new Religion another of none no matter to the Devill they are both travelling towards his kingdome Roome never means us so sudden a storm as when she makes faire weather and beares us in hand all is peace D ogs are fawning but sicophantising Iesuits are worse for their tongues doe more harme then their teeth E very man that will not adhere to the God of truth shall be turned over to the faither of lies R esist the Devill and he will flye from thee give to God obedience to thy Prince allegiance to superiours reverence to the weak assistance to the Devill and sin resistance O ur day is broken why day we sleep in sin when the Sunne is up good husbands thinke of rising the slumber of the body and the soul is not much unlike R epent therefore in life that thou maiest finde comfort in death that thou maiest be acquitted at the day of judgement of Jesus Christ O ur entrance into this world is full of weaknesse our proceeding full of wickednesse our departure full of wretchednesse P ray that you may leave the earth when you know the way perfectly to heaven desire to live till you are inspired by grace desire to dye when you are assured of glory E very man with Paul learne to dye daily for no man knows when he shall dye therefore be evermore armed with expectation N ever expect peace without Christ whosoever dyes in peace dyes in Christ the Prince of peace O ur breath is in our bodies the life of our soules is in heaven our bodies move upon earth let our heart dwell in heaven R ighteousnesse must dwell in those that looke to dwell in heaven where righteousnesse dwelleth for Christ is the Lord of righteousnesse D eath takes the clocke of our life asunder but then the omnipotent Maker takes it into his owne hand and sets it together againe at the Resurrection E nquire not what heaven is too curiously lest thou have a snib as Manoah had for asking the Angels name it is secret and wonderfull R emember Gods mercies and blessings to us in all times of this pilgrimage and he will hear us when we pray with the penitent theefe Lordremember us in thy Kingdome Silence STand right in your Files Stand right in your Rankes To the right hand As you were To the left hand As you were To the right hand about As you were To the left hand about As you were Rankes to the right hand double As you were Rankes to the left hand double As you were Files to the right hand double As you were Files to the left hand double As you were Halfe Files to the right hand double your Front As you were Halfe Files to the left hand double your Front You may doe the same by bringers up or leave it our To the right hand Countermarch To the left hand Countermarch Files to the right or left or to the Center Close to your order or close order Rankes close forward to your order or close order To the right hand wheel To the left hand wheel To the right or left hand wheel about Rankes open backward to your order open order or double distance Files to the right or left or from the Center open to your order or open order In distances observe if you open from the right to the left that the left hand man next to the right hand man is to take his distance from the said right hand man first and so every man on the left hand successively one alter another be in any of the distances of close order order open order or double distance If in Ranks the first standing the second opens backwards to either of the distances above said and not forwards in closing of Ranks it is to be done forwards and not backwards all moving together saving the first Ranks In facings you are to be sure to keepe your left foot on the groundâ—s in doublings if you come up to the right turne off to the left and so alway to the contrary hand In wheelings if you close to the left then wheel to the right or if you close to the right wheel to the left or you may wheel upon the Center According to my intended purpose I shall adde to the exercise of the Pike and Musket in the briefest manner being only what shall belong to present service and first for the Pike in all standing postures of the Pike keep your left foot fast fixt upon the ground in all marching postures move with the left foot advancing forward 1 Advance your Pikes 2 Order your Pikes 3 Shoulder your Pikes 4 Port your Pikes 5 Advance your Pikes 6 Shoulder your Pikes 7 Traile your Pikes 8 Cheeke your Pikes 9 Charge your Pikes 10 Shoulder your Pikes 11 Charge to the Front Reare right or left 12 Shoulder your Pikes 13 Advance your Pikes 14 Or order your Pikes 15 Charge to the horse and draw your sword any of the foure wayes For the Musket standing or marching First your Musket not being charged without a Rest supposing alwayes your left hand to be your Rest 1 Slip your Muskes 2 Poyse your Muskes 3 Bring her to your Rest 4 Open your Pan. 5 Clear your Pan. 6 Prime your Pan. 7 Shut your Pan. 8 Cast off 9 Blow cast about and 10 Charge 11 Draw out your scourer 12 Shorten your scourer 13 Put in your bullet 14 Ram your scourer 15 Draw out your scourer 16 Shorten your scourer 17 Put up your scourer 18 Recover 19 Poyse 20 Shoulder 21 Slope 22 Slip. 23 Poyse 24 Bring to your Rest 25 Draw forth your Match 26 Blow 27 Cock 28 Try 29 Guard your Pan. 30 Blow 31 Open. 32 Present 33 Give fire 34 Returne your match 35 Clear your pan and so charge again as is taught All these in service are reduced into these three words Make ready With these two added either Shoulder your Muskets Present Or Give fire Order your Muskets T he postures of arming and disarming according to my intention of brevity is needlesse to be here inserted they having been sufficiently written of by your Trained Band teachers I shall but only present you further with what firings are necessary for our present service out of a single Company or Regiment wishing heartily all noble Captaines and their officers would conforme themselves to these brief rules using no other words of Command then what are here used Y our single Company being drawne up Regiment wise at three foot distance being your order and your Pikes all shouldered the manner of firing to the Front is first let the two first Ranks making ready advance 8 or 10 paces from the Body the rest of the Ranks marching to the front of Pikes which two Ranks having presented and fired one after another let them march off to the right and left hand the next two ranks doing the same with the rest successively as long as you please when you draw near to your Enemy or by way of supposition charge over your Pikes three ranks deep and the rest ported following the charge T o fire from the reare first command your Body to advance their Pikes then face them about to the right or left and then shoulder your Pikes againe moving your Body command the two last Ranks to make ready being ready command the last Ranke to the Rear present who is to turn to the right hand and give fire and so turning up to the right and left advanceth into Front placing themselves before their Leaders the rest of the Ranks doing the same successively one after another T o fire from your right and left stanks command the right and left hand file to make ready which done marching your Body command them to present to the right and left and so give fire which being done let the files stand and charge their Muskets again by which time the two next files wil have performed the like who are also in like manner to stand facing toward their Commander and the first file is immediately to march up to the second the next files having done the like are to stand the first and second file advancing up to them and so of all the rest successively making up your Body again with all speed that may be T here is sometimes another firing used standing whereby an Enemy may receive suddenly a very hot charge when you are retreating command your Body to face about to the right or left and then let them all make ready which done standing let the first Ranke fire and fall off into the Reare and so the rest of them in like maner successively one after another your Pikes retreating back as your body loseth ground Y ou are to use your endeavour to bring your souldiers to know the severall notes of a Drum and what he is to performe upon the hearing of them your Pikemen being to be shouldered upon the beat of a march and advanced upon the beat of a troop This thing perfected will be sufficient for our present service to which God give 〈◊〉 FINIS
MILITARY AND SPIRITUALL MOTIONS FOR Foot Companies VVith an Abridgement of the Exercise of a single Company as they now ought to be taught and no otherwise Composed in IRELAND and now published for the good of his fellow Soldiers in ENGLAND By Captaine Lazarus Haward of Ailsford in Kent London Printed by Tho. Harper and are to be sold in Little Britain 1645. To the Honorable Sir Anthony Weldon Knight and the rest of the Hon ble Deputy Lievtenants and Comittees of the County of Kent Honourable Gentlemen THE noble favours I daily receive from you since my arrivall out of Ireland into this County hath imboldned me to offer this poor tribute of mine experience not to teach your uncontrollable knowledges but humbly desire it may kisse your hands as a sacrifice offered from your servant or as a weaknesse that stands in need of your protections In your Honours I know is power to judge of my labour and in you also is power to exercise mercy I hope I have written nothing that is erring from sence or truth having not laboured mine own but the profit of my poore bleeding dying Country-men whom these miserable times have called out to this miserable unnaturall War desiring not only his temporall victory but above al his spirituall There may be many puny Scholars that from these briefe Rules may gather more abler judgements Your noble favours and allowance can only make it acceptable to those which need it especially in this Country which I wish to be served by it then let those graces fly from your noble natures that as now I live I may die your Honours poore Servant and Soldier L. H. To the Curteous Reader I Have not presumed to adde any thing to the uncontrollable knowledges of such as have formerly taken much pains in writing at large upon this Subject of drilling drayning or exercising of Foot Companies nor any new thing to catch covetous spirits but only what may ever be embraced of solid and substantiall judgements Innovations and divisions have stirred up such dismall distractions that it hath brought us neere to a fearefull desolation and that which by the blessing of God should be the principall means of our restoring being the Honourable art of War is with the times much of it become full of divisions and divisionall practises onely serving to delight curious spectators otherwise dangerous to the poore soldier if ever he be brought upon service the actors little regarding the old briefe rules from whence their new devised divisionall whimzies are fetcht But since peace it lost and the devouring sword strives to be conquerour of all and fearing that thou that art my fellow soldier who standst in need not only of military discipline but also in more need of spirituall so that not having put on S. Pauls spirituall armour nor beene exercised in any spirituall motions thou be in danger to lose both soule and body together Let me intreat thee to peruse these few briefe rules concerning the defence of thy soule and body both the brevity of the rules which thou art to use for defence of thy body will affoord thee sufficient time peruse and double over those good motions admonitions sentences and sayings as their letters have linkt them to their order which being well observed will bring thee to be a soldier of that great Captaine Christ Jesus under whose obedience is obtained ever lasting victory and a crowne of glory Thus uniformity in discipline spirituall and temporall will make us like the Israelites go up as one man with one heart and in one forme and so take away the evill from before our brethren and so once more enjoy a happy peace in Church and State this being the briefest way to give an end to our miserable troubles having comprehended the full and whole Exercise of a Foot Company in the last sheet of this Booke I commend thee to it and the rest which being construed according to my honest meaning I have got my desire and shall ever rest at thy service Lazarus Haward Military Motions for Exercising of Foot Companies S Ilence is the daughter of shamefastnesse both which as they are excuses for mediocrity so they are prejudices to excellencies I t is a shame a godly mans zeal should not be as couragious to defend the truth as a wicked mans malice is violent to oppose it L et heaven thunder earth and hell roar speak for the truth for it is truth that preserves our lives and makes us blessed for ever E vill thoughts can seldome bring forth good words never good deeds for as corne is so will the flower be N othing more lewd then error the more false the matter the greater noise to hold it up C ursed is that speech that is either against the God of truth or against Gods truth or against the friend of both God and truth E very man that is Christs Souldier will fight for him S erve the time I wicked counsell we are made to serve God T hat minde can never be steady that stands upon anothers feet untill it will rather lead then follow A Commonwealth is a tent picht up to shelter men from wrong that they may live happily together Lawes are the cords of it breake the cords and the tent falls N othing that the Law allowes but the male-content censures what it forbids that he strives to justifie but that 's a treacherous hand that steals away from States-men their reputation D ivinity is a mistresse for the highest masters of men and the Scripture is the best counsellour for the greatest States-man in the World R ulers to be unrighteous are like blazing Stars with long tailes drawing traines of mischiefe after them and is ominous to a whole Kingdome but piety in a Prince blesseth all his Subjects I f Magistrates will uphold Gods Kingdome he will uphold theirs if they will have God to be mindfull of them in his mercie they must be mindefull of him in their businesse G od permits false teachers for mans ingratitude because Ahab will not beleeve Micha a lying spirit shall deceive his Prophets H ee that comes in Gods name and is sent yet delivers a false message when he is come is a falsifier of Gods Word T o intangle the soul with multitude of traditions ceremonies and unconcerning rites is to be condemned for it takes away liberty of conscience I t would coole the heart of the Devill if the Church had escaped the ingenious solicitations of our superstitious teachers who not only trouble the waters of our peace but poyson her very springs of life N o sooner was God worshipped and served but hatred and spight fell to the portion and lot of Religion Y f false teachers had not store of followers hereticall positions would fall to the ground and themselves slinke away with reproach and shame O ur wickednesse in these daies and dangerous times proceeds not from weake but from wilfull ignorance V iolent opposing the
no evill matters O nce God spake it another time performed it a third time redouled it therefore none can plead ignorance that they want instruction U ngodly men may taste of the waters of life by chance as a dog laps at Nilus but his voyage is bound for mischiefe W hile the Devill can busie men with ceremony and circumstance he hopes well and will let them alone about faith and manners E xternall prosperity is no good marke of our election the fairest beasts are kept for slaughter R emember alwayes the house of mourning is not for mirth Christ turned the Musitians out of doores E very judgement we see should make us wiser in the feare of God every mercy we feele wiser in the love of God H ee that thinks to asswage the anguish of one sin by doing another preseribes to himselfe a remedy far worse then the disease A faire carriage keeps temptation out at staves end but lightnesse of presence lets it into the graple and gives encouragement to lewd desires L ove is commended like water it neither makes a man in debt nor in drinke so love is neither hard to get nor costly to keep F alling from Christ can be incident to none but Christians for they that were never up can never be said to fall F or knowne diseases there be knowne medicines but hypocrisie prevents all wayes of remedy I t is better with Philosophers to have honesty without Religion then with wicked Christians to have Religion without honesty L et men turne from wickednesse to piety and God will turne judgement to mercy Solomon and Idolater Zacheus an extortioner Noah drunke yet all these went to heaven E xpectation is sometimes of feare so the timer ous traveller looks for the theef and so the conscious malefactor looks for the comming of the Judge Saul is tempted sinneth and sleepeth his last David is tempted sinneth and sleepeth not his last T he lesse space a man hath allowed for his businesse the more he should ply it the fewer dayes the fruitfuller lessons O h that my people would have heard these are royall and sweet speeches but to the wicked God changeth his speech into sharpnesse T he more a man fears God the lesse he fears any thing else for all the fear of Satan ariseth from the want of the due feare of God H ee that loves God only for temporall blessings and faile him when those blessing faile is like mutinous souldiers no longer pay no longer fight E ndeavour to keep thy shield of faith and thou shalt victoriously march with the Saints on earth and triumphantly with Angels in heaven L et Princes boast of their delicacies Christ liveth in me this be the food of our soules E ndeavour that your faith be encreased and grow still from faith to faith F aith is a fundamentall grace and should overcome the World yet it will prove a coward without servencie T here is no poverty of estate or consumption of body to a leane starved soule which neither knowes nor cares to know Christ H ee that loves God for himselfe and goodnesse because it is goodnesse can God A s God will crowne the faithfull above their deserts with glory so hee will load the wicked according to their deserts with eternall torments N ot to have no spots here but to have no spots imputed to us hereafter is the happinesse of Christian D arknesse of nature must have its due course by creation yet no darknesse shall afflict thy body while there is saving light in thy soule D esire more grace seeke more never thinke you have enough be still poore that you may be rich rich that you may be full full that you may be glorious O h that men could see how much better it is to be poore then evill and that there is no comparison between want and sin U se the world but enjoy the Lord be thankfull for outward blessings but rest thy heart on Jesus Christ B etter are the troubles and differences of righteousnesse then the peace of wickednesse L et nothing pierce your hearts deep either in griefe or feare but sin and unbeleefe E nvy not the gifts of God in any neither thinke hardly of their infirmities nor fret at the prosperity of the wicked Y f we be departed from Babylon let not a rag or relike of superstition abide with us for it is proore comfort to escape in Sodome and perish in the Playnes O ur conversation to God must be with a whole heart without exception without hypocrisie without delay without apostacie and without despaire U nstable men are in a wretched estate their Religion is yet to chuse they know they shall dye but know not what faith to dye in R ight holinesse is true nobility for without goodnesse there can be no true glory F aith working by love performes all duties to God and man but false faith is like sandy earth which never brings forth fruit R eligion and true Piety is the readiest way to the highest advancement therefore above all treasure set your hearts thereon O ne sparke of true Religion is far beyond a whole flame of secular wisdome N eeds must that vertue be fruitfull that is stirring and needs must that be stirring that is living and needs must that be living that is quickned by Jesus Christ T he neglect of resolution to enter the way of righteousnesse is the forlorne state of a sinner for what hopes can be had of him that hath not so much as a purpose to be holy A good man lives after death but the name of the wicked is rotten before their carcaste is cold S inne like a viper may hang upon Pauls hand and not poyson it it may bring a potentiall guilt not an actuall Y f mans heart be divided if sinks to confusion but keep it whole to the way of truth and it shall be saved O ur eyes be good we know our hands be good God grant our hearts be good that we may defend Christs cause U ntill a man seele his owne want and that feeling breed sorrow that sorrow desire that desire prayer that prayer increase of faith that prayer of his shall never bring downe Gods mercy W retched are they that flatter themselves but blessed are they that can prove themselves to be out of the ranke of the ungodly E xamine thy selfe whether thou hast suffered an heavenly holy violence or whether grace hath wrought upon thee if not thou livest the life of nature R emember to walk in a measure of holinesse answerable to Gods mercy for if we turne his grace into wantonnesse he will turne his mercy into judgement E very argument is shut up with an ergo and is the knowne note of a conclusion thus may the syllogisme be framed but whosoever would escape destruction must adhere to the truth T he greatest shew of sanctity that error puts on the more fuller of suspition therefore beware of the
to commit sin weake to resist sin E vill can never be the childe of goodnesse nor can sin so basely descended lay claime to omnipotencie O vercome evill with good and be farre from snatching Gods weapon out of his hand but rather master unkindnesse with kindnesse R ather labour to avoid sinne by knowledge then venture to sin upon the conceit of repentance D elay is dangerous when we are once resolved if ever good why not now E very man is charged with every good worke all holy duties are required of all men if we know Christ we will imitate him R emember that as addition a addes to grace so multiplication increaseth the effect of those graces R epentant eyes are true Cisternes of holy water and the sighs of sorrowfull spirits on earth makes the Spirits joyfull in heaven A s God regards not so much the quantity as the quality not how much but how true faith is so he never rejected them that had any at all N either the greatnesse of crime not the thortnesse of time can bar true conversation from for givenesse K nowledge vertue temperance patience godlinesse brotherly kindnes and charity with one end tyed to heaven fasten the other end to the conscience and it shall draw thee up to heaven S aving knowledge takes away barrennesse andmakes fruitfulnesse in the works of obedience T here be two things torment a man sin and a bad conscience grace delivers from sin and peace quiets the conscience O ne that hath a will bent to doe harme and a wit able to prosecute it is like a Canon shot that makes a Lane where it goes T here is fearfull combustion all over the world wars at home wars abroad if therefore we love peace let every man pray for peace H ee that desires to be found in peace let peace be found in him peace or nothing peace and every thing E arthly peace the earth can give though sometimes she will not but the peace of Christ the world cannot take away F or profit peace is like the dew of heaven that makes all fat and fruitfull wheresoever peace sets her foot there drops fatnesse R egeneration makes a man like the Garden of Eden wherein stands the Tree of life Jesus Christ when he dyed one Paradise entred into another O ur condemantion is great if we know the light and yet chuse darknes N o more but eight saved of the old world see what sin can doe bring many millions to eight persons T here can be no safety without faith there is no faith without a promise and no promise is made to disobedience C hrist was made a sinner by the reputation of our sinnes and we made just by the imputation of his justice L ife brings appetite appetite brings desire of meat and meat affords nourishment if the soule hungers not after Christ it lives not O ur sins deceived us of our birthright let it not deceive us of our blessing it stole us from our happinesse of nature let it not steale us from our happinesse of grace S inne shews the Devill horrible God a severe judge let the Gospell remove that God is my father the Devill his and thy slave E very wound of Christ is a passage his side was opened his heart was pierced through both these breaches we have entrance into heaven T his is a faithfull saying and worthy all acceptance that Christ can forgive more then we can offend but that he will forgive all is a fearfull question O ur salvation is sure in Christ upon sin will follow doubt upon doubt terror upon terror remorse upon remorse deprecation upon that pardon and after that peace Y f holinesse be not in the heart it is not where it should be Ismael was an unbeleever in the house of faith O pen thy heart as well as thine eare if the seed of Gods Word be not sowne there it will never abound with fruit to everlasting life V ertue is not temporall but is still ambitious of improving it selfe and so is admitted into the number of Gods Jewells R ecollect your selves and become fruitfull trees that when God transplants you from this misery he may set you in his owne glorious garden O ur best works are but blanks then let us goe out of our selves and be beholding to the righteousnesse of Christ only for our salvation R aise thy affections above a common pitch and let thy soule bear herself as the Spouse of the great King of heaven D iligence respects so great an object as salvation and such an object requires great diligence E lection in heaven calls for vocation on earth vocation calls for corne wine and oyle which are the fruits of a godly life R iches brings contention godlinesse brings contentation gaine hath often hurt the getters but piety is profitable to all men O ne Jesus Christ in the Gospell never satiated any man that read him therefore let the Word of God dwell in you plentiously R ecover you affecttions so deare to you that were the prisoners and drudges to lust and let them now doe service to God C harity gives part of thy wealth to the poore but faith gives thy self yea thy whole self to God L et this sinfull flesh doe what it can it shall not hinder thy entrance into heaven for which thanke God through Jesus Christ O ur good is only accepted through the righteousnesse of Christ our very persons are accepted in the beloved if our persons then our good actions S ecurity and expectation are opposites the servant that lookes for his Masters comming is afraid to fall asleep E very man that is kinde to his brother comes with best speed to his Maker O f such a zeale as prefers Gods service before all other things comes true godlinesse R ighteousnesse of reparation is the reforming of errors and confirming of manners salving past defects by a bettered life D ivorce must be suffered one husband must be lost happy is he that findes another in heaven Christ Jesus E ndeavour to be saved is no easie taske but requires labour refuse no worke for such a reward as heaven is R ead the Scriptures constantly and meditate upon them for it was holy Davids practise day and night T o be strong to sin is no credit for man for strength to sin is to be strong to goe to hell O Christian acknowledge thy dignity and being made the consort of a divine Nature returne not by thy degenerate conversation unto thy ancient vildnesse T o small purpose doe we keep the Law in memory and break it in life in vaine do we remember Christ in our words and forget him in our deeds H ee that carties a Bible in his hand and hath not a leston of it in his heart is like an Asse that carries a dainty burden on his backe and feeds upon thistles E ither they had no beginning or no end whose end is worse then their beginning