in beig ruade equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in us . Ont iet t i full rcn, bcng olly t case, nd in quiet, and another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure; but they lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them Esay," it covers them, and is spread under them, (the worm is spread under thee, and the worm covers thee). There is the mats and the carpet that lie under; and there is the state and the canopy that hangs over the greatest of the sons of men. Even those bodies that were the temples of the Holy Ghost, corne to this dilapidation, to ruin, to rubbish, to dust: even the Israel of the Lord, and Jacob himself had no other specification, no other denomination but that, tYermis Jacob, Thon worm Jacob '. Tl'uly, the consideration of this posthume death, this death after burial, that after God, with whom are the issues of death, bath delivered me from the death of the womb, by bringing me into the world, and from the manifold deaths of the world, by laying me in the grave, I must die again, in an incineration of this flesh, and in a dispersion of that dust; that ail that monarch that spread over many nations alive, must in his dust lie in a corner of that sheet of lead, and there but so long as the lead will last: and tbat private and retired man, that thought himself his own for ever, and never came forth, must in his dust of the grave be published, and, (such are the revolutions of graves) be mingled in his dust, with the dust of every highsvay, and of every dunghill, and swallowed in every puddle and pond; this is the most ing]orious and contemptible vilification, the most deadly peremptory nullification of man, that we can consider. God seems to bave carried the declaration of his power to a great height, when he cets the prophet Ezekiel, in the valJey of dry bones, and says,,S'on of ma can these bones lire'°? as though it had been impossible; and yet they did; the Lord laid sinews upon them, and flesh, and breathed into them, and they did lire. But in that case there were bones to be ceen; something visible, of which it might be said, Can this, this lire . but in this death of incineration and dispersion of dust, we cee nothing a Job xxiii. 24. Job xxiv. 1. Isaiah XLi. 14. 0 Ezek- xxxvil. 3.
SER. CLVIll.J PR,£CIIKD AT WHITEHALL. that we eau call that nan's. If we say, Can this dtst live perchance it cannot. It may be the mere dust oç the eah which never did lire, nor shall; it nay be the dust of that worms which did li'e, but shall no more; it may be the dust oç another man that coaces hot him of whom it is asked. This death of incineration and dispersion is to natural rean tho nost irrecoverble dth of all and yet Doii Do»ii exitus orti$, U}o God te Lord bolwy te i$ste$ deat, and by rccompacting this du into the saine bod}ç and re-inanimating the saine body with the sane soul, he shall in blessed and glorious resurrection, gi'e me such an iue from this death, as shall never pass into any other death, but establish me in lire, tht si]ail last as long as the Lord of life himoelç. And so have you that that belongs to the first acceptation of these words, ( to God te Lord bJwg the ise deatb) flat though çrom the womb to tbe grave and in the grave itoe]f, we pass from death to deth, yet, as Daniel eaks, The Lord out God is able to deliver us and he will deli'er us. And so we pass to our second acconodation dE these words (rto God te Lord te iso«e» d«at)that it belon to God, and hot to man, to pass judment upo us at out death, or to conclude a dcoeliction on God's part, upon tho manner thereoï. Tho indications which physicians receive, and those presagitions which they give for death or recovery in the patient, thcy reoeive, and they give, out of the grotmds and rules of their art but we bave no such ru!e or art to ground a presagition of splritual death nd damnation upon any such indication as we see any dying nan: 'e see often enough to be sorry, but hot to despair: çor the nercies of God work momentanely, in ninutes; and mauy rimes insensibly to by-standers, or any other lhan the l)arty departin, and we may be deceived both ways: we u to comfort oursclves in the deth oç friend, if it be testified that he went wy like lamb, that is, but with any reluctation; but God kuows, that may have been oecompanied with a dangerous damp and stupefaction, and insensibility oç his present stte. ()itr blessed Saviour admitted colluctations with death, and a sadness even in his soul to death, and an agony even to bloody swcat in his body, and expostulations with God, and exclama- VOL. VI. U in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust 1. One dieth at his full strength, being wholly at case, and in quiet, and another dies in the bitternes of his oeul, and never eats with pleasure; but they lie down alike in the dust, and tho worm covers them . The worm covers them in Job, and in Esay, it covers them, and is spread under them, (the worm is spread under thee, and the worm covers thee). Thero is the mats and the carpet that lie under; and there i8 the tate and the canopy that hangs over the greatest of the sons of men. Even those bodies that were the temples of the Holy Ghost, corne to this dilapidation, to ruin, to rubbish, to dust: even the Israel of the Lord, and Jacob himself had no other speeification, no other denomination but that, Verrai» Jacob, Thou worm Jacob °. Truly, the consideration of this posthume death, this death after burial, that after God, with whom are the issues of death, hath delivered me from the death of the womb, by bringing me into the world, and from the manifold deaths of the world, by laying me in the grave, I must die again, in an ineineration of this flesh, and in a dispersion of that dust; that all that monareh that spread over many nations alive, must in his dust lie in a corner of that sheet of lead, and there but o long as the lead will lst: and that private and retired man, that thought himself his own for ever, and never camo forth, must in his dust of the grave be published, and, (such are the revolutions of graves) be mingled in his dust, with the dust of every highway, and of every dunghill, and swallowed in every puddle and pond; this is the most inglorious and coutemptible vilification, the most deadly and peremptory nullification of man, that we can eonsider. God seems to have carried the declaration of his power to a great height, when he sers the prophet Ezekiel, in the valley of dry bones, and says,,$'on of man can tese bone li:e'°. as though it haà been impossible; and yet they did; the Lord laid sinews upon them, and flesh, and breathed into them, and they did lire. But in that case there were bones to be seen; something visible, of which it might be said, Can tllis, this lire. but in this death of incineration and dispersion of dust, we sec nothing al Job xxiii. 24. Job xxiv. "i i. Isaiah xi. 14. o Ezek. xxxvii. 3.
sert. CLvm.J ln.cmv T WmTF.t. 289 that we can call that man*s. If we y, Can this dust live pehance i cannot. If may be the mere dust of the eah which never did lire, nor shall; it may Le the dust of that man's worms which dld lire, Lut shall no more; it my Le the dust of another man that concerns hot him of whom it is asked. This death of incineration and dispersion is to natural rean the most irrecoverable death of all; an yet Domini Domlni su exitus mortis, Ço Hod te Lord boloq te issues deat, and hy recompacting this du into the mme body, and re-inanimating the saine b)" with the saine so, he shall in a blessed and glorious resnrreetion, givo me sueh an issue frein this death, as shall noyer pass into any other death, but establish me in a lire, tiret shall last as long as the Lord of life himself. And se bave you that that belongs te fle first acceptation of these words, ( $to (l the Lord belog the iue deat) that though frein the womb te the ave, and in the grave itself, we pass frein death te death, y, as Daniel eaks, The Lord out God is able te dellver us, and he will deliver us. And se we pass te out second accommodation of these words (to God the Lord belong te i»ue» d«at)that it belongs te God, and net te man, te pass a jdgment upon us at out death, or te conelude a deoeliction on God's part, upon the lnanner thereof. Those indicationa which phyaicians receive, and thoee pres gitlons whleh they give for death or reeovery in the patient, they reive, and they give, out of the grounds and rulea of their art: but we bave no sueh fuie or art te ground a presagition of aplritual dcafl, and dnmation upon any auch indication as we see in any dylng man: we aee often enough te be sorry, but net te despair for the mereies of God work momennely, in minut; atd lnany tlmes insensibly te by-standers, or any other than the party departing, and we may be deceived both ways: we use te eomfo ourse]ves in the death of a friend, if it be testified that he went away like a lamb, that is, but with any reluetation; but G knows, that may have been accompanied with a dangerous damp and stupeftion, and isensibility of his present atate. Out blessed Saviour admitted co]luctations with death, and a sadneas even in his ul te death, and a agony even te a bloy sweat in his by, and expostuIations wlth God, and exelama- VOL. '1. U tions upon the cross. He was a devout man, who upon death-bcd, or death-turf (for he,vas a hermit) said, 8tuyinta annis Domino seriristi, et mori t/mes'm? Hast thou served a good Master threeseore and ten years, and now art thou loth to go into his presenee. yet Hilarion,vas loth. Ho,vas a devout man (a hermit") that said that day that ho died, Co.qitate hodie coepisse sereire Domino, et hodie.liniturum, Consider dais to be tho first day's service that ever thon ditlst thy Master, to glorify him in a Christianly and constant deada; and, if thy first day ho thy last day too, how soon dost thou eomo to reeeivo day wages; yet ]3arlaam eould bave been content to haro stayed longer for it; make no iii conclusion upon anv man's lothness to die. And then. upon violent deaths inflieted, as upon malefaetors, Christ himself hath forbidden us by his own death to mako any ill conclusion; for his own death had daoso impressions in it; ho vas reputed, he was oxeeuted as a malefactor, and no doubt many of them who eoneurred to his death, did believe him to be so. Of sudden deaths there are scareo examples, to ho found in dao Scriptures, upon good men; for death in battlo eannot bo ealled sudden death: but God governs hot by examples, but by rules; and thereforo mako no iii conclusions npon sudden death; nor upon distempers neither, though perehanee aeeompanied with some words of difldeneo and distrust in tho mercies of God. The treo lies as it falls; it is truo; but yet it is hot tho last stroke that fells the tree; nor tho last word, nor last gasp that qualifies the soul. Still pray wo for a peaceablo lifo, against violent deaths, and for rime of repentaneo against madden deaths, and for sober and modest assurance against distempered and dident deadas, but never mako iii conclusion upon persons overtaken with such deaths. Domini, Domini sunt exitus rnortis, To God dao Lord belong the issues of death, and he received Samson, 'ho went out of this world in such a mauner (eonsider it actively, eonsider it passively; in his own death, and in thoso whom ho slew with himself) as,vas subjeet to interpretation hard enough; yet tho Holy Ghost bath moved St. Paul to eelebrate Samson, in his great eatalogate ', and so doth ail the ehureh.
SERo CI»VIII.] IItEA('|FD AT VH|TEHALL. 291 Out critîcal day is not the very day of out death, but the hole course of or lire: I thank him, tht prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more that catecises me, o rehes to me, or inructs me how to live,/àc oc d the is my security; the outh of the Lord hath soken it, Do this and thou halt lie. But though I do it yet I shall die to, die a bodily, a natural death; but God never mentions, never seoms to consider that dcath, the bodily, the natural death. Goal doth hot say, Livo well, and thou shalt die well; well, that is an easy, a quiet death; but lire well here, and thou shalt lire well for ever. As tho first part of a sentenco pies well with tho last, and never respeets, never hearkens after the pareutheis tiret co]ncs between, so doth a goed lire llere, flow into an eternal lire, without any consideration what manner of death we die. But whether the gare of my prison he opened with au oiled key (by a $cntle and preparing sicklleSs) or tlle gate he hewed down, by a violent death, or the gate ho burnt do by a raging and fi'antie lever; a gate iuto heaven I shall have; for, from thc Lol'd is the cour of my lire, sud with God tho Lo are the issues of death; and farther wo carry not this second acceptation of the words, as this issue of death is iiberatio in morte, God's care that tho soul he sale, what agony soever tho body surfer lu the hour of dcath; but pa to out third and last part; as this issue of death is liberatio per mortem, a deliverance by the death of anothcr, by the death of Christ. Sufferentiam Job audiistis et idlstis finem Doini, says St. James v. 11. You llave hrd of tlle patience of Job, says he; ail tllis whil« you We donc tha: for in every man, enlamitous, miserable nlau, Job spea. w see the end of tke Lord, saitll that apostle, which is no that end whieh the Lord propoeed to himself (lvation fo tre) nor the end whieh ho pl' poses to us (eonformity to hinl) but, »S'ee the end " tke Lord, sa)'s he, the end tha the Lord himself came to, death, and a pninful, and a shameful death. But why did he die and why die so Quia Domini Domini sunt exitus mortis (as St. Austine intelgreting this text, answers that question") beeause to this God our Lord belonged theso issues of death; Quid apertius « De Civit. Dei .. 1; c. xviii.
i«ret«r says Ge there; 'hat tan be more obvious, mors manlçest, tan t]fis sense of these wordsY In te former of the verse if is said, lle tt s sur Go s ( Des s«Iro«eni, so he reads it, The God that must save 'ho tan that be, sait he, but esus For terefore that naine was iven im, besace he w to save us «: And fo this aith he, this Saviour, belongs the issues of death, çc oportui# cure de kac zita alios ezitus habere, quam mortis, Being corne into this lire in sur mortal nattwe, he could not go out of it any other way than by death. Ideo dictum (saith he) therefore it said, To God te Lord belong te issues OE death; Ut ostenderur oriendo ws salros«cturum, to show that his way to save us, was to die. And from this text doth St. Isidore prove, that Christ was truly man (which as many sects of heretics denied, as that he was truly God) because to him, though he were Domin Dominus (as the text doubles it) God the Lord, yet to him, fo God the Lord belonged the issues of death. Oportuit cure pari, more cannot be said, than Christ himself saith of himself, Tese tiços Crist oçqt to ster"; he had no other way but by death. So then, this part of sur sermon must necessafily be a passion sermon, since ail his lire was a continual passion, all sur Lent may wdl be a continual good-Friday Christ's painful lire tk off none of the pains of his death he felt hot the less then, for having fclt so much belote; nor will anything that shall be said belote, lessen, but rather enlme your devotion to that which shall be said of his passion, at the time of the due lcmnization thereof. Christ bled hOt a drop the lem at last, for having bled at his circumcision before, nor will you shed a tear the less then, if you shed some now. And thereçore be now content to consider with me, how to this God te Lord belong te issues of deat. That God te Lord, the Lord of liçe could die, is a strange eontemplation; that the Red Sea eould be dry'; that the sun eod stand still«; thag an oven could be seven rimes hea and hot burn; that lions could be hung and hot bite, is stmnge, miraculously strange; but super-miraculous, that God cod die: Matt. l. 21. « Luke iv. 26. Exod. xiv. 21. Josh. x. 12.
but that Goal would die, is an exaltation of that; but, even of that also, it is a super-exaltation, that God should die, must die; and no»z e«itu» (saith St. Augustine) God the Lord had no issue but by death, and olortuit patl (saith Christ himself) all this Christ ought to surfer, was bound fo surfer. Deu» ultio»tu» Deus, saith David, God is the God of revenges; he would not pass over the sin of mau unrevenged, unpunished. But then, Deus ultio»tum libere e#it (says that place) The God of revenges works îreely; he punishes, ho spares whom he will; au,l would he uot spare hlmself Ile would hot. Dilectio fortis ut »or8 "°, Love is as stroné as dcath; strouger; it drew in death, that naturally svas hot welcome. 8i posibile (saith Christ) If if be ¥o»sible let tli cup lin»c, wheu hi. love, expressed in a former decreo svith his Father, had ruade it impossible. Many waters quench uot love; Christ tried manv; he was baptized out of his love, and his love determined hOt thcre; he wept over Jerusalem out of hi. love, and his love determined not there; he mingled blood wlth water in his agony, and that determiued not his love; he wept pure blood, all his blood, at all his eycs, at all his porcs; in his flagcllations, and thorns; to the Lord our God belongcd tho issues of blood; and theso expressed, but these did hot queneh his love. IIe would hot spare, nay, he would hot spare himself; thero was nothiug moro freo, moto voluutary, more spontaueous than the death of Christ; it is truc, libere eyR, he died voluutarily; but yet, when wc cousider the contract that had passed between his Father and him, thcre was an olrt«it, a kind of neeessity upon him: ail this Christ ought to surfer. And xvhen shall we dato this obligation, this oport«it, this necessity, xvhen shall we say it bcgan . Certainly this decreo by which Christ was to surfer all this, was an eternal decree; and was there anything before that that was eternal! Infinite love, eternal love; be pleased to follow this home, and to consider it seriously, that what liberty soever we tan conceive in Christ to die, or hot to die, this necessity of dying, this decree is as eternal as that liberty; and yet how small a matter ruade he of this necessity, and this dying? His Father ealls it but a bruise, and but a bruising of his hcel (The #eryent
O9" PREACHED AT VI-IITEHALLo [SEIo CLVII|. a[[ bru[e eel °) and yet that was, that the seent should ractise and COlUpass his death. Himse calls it but a baptism, thouh he were to be the better for it; ] av a apt/m to b bpt/zeJ w/th »; and he was in pain till it was accomplished; and yet this bptism was his death. The Holy Ghost calls it joy; (For the joy whAch wa ét bore him e endured te cros »t) which was hot a joy of his reward after iris paion, but a joy that filled him even in the midst of those torments, and amse from thcm. XVhen Christ calls his passion calioem, a cup, and no worse, (Can ye drink of mg cup',) he speaks not odiously, hOt with detestation of it; indeed it was a cup; salus mundo, a health to:dl the world; and quld retribuem, ys David, What.«hall I rentier unto the Lord« Answer)u with David, Accil, ia» calicem, I will take the cup of salvation. Take that, that cup of salvation his passion, if hot into your prent imitation, yet into your present contemplation, and behold how that Lord who was God yet cou]d die, would die, nmst die for your lvation. That Moses and Elias talked with Christ in the transfiguration both St. Matthew » and St. Mark »' tell us; but what they talked of, only St. Luke »; Dicebant excessum ejus, m)'s he; they talked of his decease, of his death, which was to I)e aecoml)lished ai Jerulem. The word is of his Exodus, the very word of our text, ritus, his issue by death. Moses, who in his Exodus had prefired this issue of our Lord, and in passing Israel out of E'pt through the Red Sea, had foretold in that actual prophecy Christh passing of mankind through the sea of his blood, and Elia¢ whoeo Exodus, and issue out of flfis world, was a figure of Christ's aoeension, had no doubt a great satisfaction, in talking with our blesd Lo, De exceu us, of the full consummation of all this in his death, which was to be accomplished at Jerusalem. Our meditation of his death should bo more visceml, and aster us more, bause it is of a thing already done. The ancient Romans had a ceain tenderness, and detestation of the name of death; they would hOt naine death, no not in their wills; there they wod not say, 'i mori ntingat, but 'i quid hunitu continyat, not
ERo CLVIII.] PREACHED AT V'HITEHALLo f or when I die, but when the course of nture is accomplished upon me. To , that speak daily of the death of Christ, (he was crucified, dead and buried)can the memory or the mention of out death be irkoeme or bitter There are in these latter timcs amongst us, that naine death freely enough, and the death of God, but in blasphemous oaths and execrations. Miserable mcn, who shall therefore be said never to have named Jesus, because they bave namcd him too often and therefore hear Jesus say, Ve»civi zo», I never knew you; because they ruade themselves too familiar with him. Moses and Elias talked with Christ of his death ouly in holy and joyful sense of the benefit which they nd all tho World were to receive by it. Discourses of religiou should hot ho out of curiosity, but edification. Aud then they talked with Christ of his death, at that time when he was at the greatest hcight of glory, that eer he admitted in this world; that is, his transfiguratiou. Aud we are afraid to speak to the great men of this world of their death, but uourish in them a vain intagination of immortality and immutability. But Bonum est wbis esse i6 (as St.l'eter said there) It is goed to dwell here, in this consideration of his death, and therefore transfer we our tabernacle, (out devotion) through some of these steps, which God the Lord ruade to his issue of death, that day. Take in his whole day, from the hour that Christ are the passover upon Thursday¢ to the hour iu which ho died the ncxt day. Make this present day, that day in thy devotion, and consider what he did, and remcmber what you bave doue. Before ho iustituted and celebrated the sacrament, (which was aRer the eating of tho passover) he proceeded to tho act of humility, to wash his disciples" feet; even Peter's, who for a while resisted him. In thy preparation to the holy and blessed sacrament, hast thou with a sincere hunlility sought a reconciliation with ail the world, eveu with those who bave been averse from it, and refused that reconciliation from thee If , (and not else) thou hast spent that first part, of this his last day, in a conformity with him. After the sacrament, he spent the time till night in prayer, in preaching, in psahns. Hast thou considered that a worthy receiving of the sacrament consists in a continuation of holiness after, as wcll as in a preparation beforc If so, thou hast therein also
296 PREACHED AT %%'H|TEH.LLo [SER. .LVlIIo conformed thyself to him: so Chrt spent his thne till night. Ai niht he went into the garden to pray, and he prayed proHi«s; he spent mu«h rime in prayer '. How much because it is literally expreed that he pyed there three several tme and that returnin to his disciples fter his fir prayer, and nng them asleep, said, Could ye ot catc it one our»? It is ]ccted that he ent three hours in prayer. I date scarce k thee whither thou wentest, or how thou disposedst of thyoelf, when it grew dark and after, last night. If that time were spent in a holy recommendation of thyself God, and a submission of thy will to his; then it was spent in a conformity to him. In that rime, and in those prayers were his agony and bloody swt. I "will hope that thou didst pray; but hot every ordinary and custonary prayer, but prayer actually accompanied with shding of tears, and diositively, in a readiness to shed blood for his glory in necessary cases, purs thee into a conformity with him. About midnlght he was ken and bound w[th a kiss. Art thou hot too conformable to him in that [ Is hot that too literally, too exactly thv case! At midnight to bave been takeu, and bound with a kss [ From thence he was carried back to Jemsalem; first to Annas, theu to Caial,has, and (as late as it wa) there he was examined, and buflted, and delivered over to the custodv of those officers, from whom he received ail those irrisions, and violence the covering of his face, the spitting upou hls thce, the blasphemies of words, and the smaoEness of hlows 'hich that gospel mentions. In which compa fell that yallicinium, that crowing of the c'k, which called up Peter to his repentance. How thou psedst all that rime last night, thou knowest. If thou didst anything then that needed PeteFs tears, and hast hOt shed them, let me be thy cock: do it now; now thy Iaster (in the unworthiest of servants) looks back upon thee, do it »ow. ]etimes in the morning, as soon as it was day, the Jews held a oeuncil in the high priest's hoe, and agreed upon their evidence against him, and then carried him to Pilate, who w be his judge. Didst thou accuse thyoelf when thou wakedst this morning, and wt thou content to adroit even false accusations, that is, rather to suspect actions bave been sin which were hot, than to smother si Luke xx. 44. » Matt. xxvl. 4o.
SER. CLVIII.J PIIEACIIED AÏ SVHITEH.#*LL. °97 and justify such as svere truly sins. Then thon spente_t that hour in conformity to him. Pilate round no evidence against him; and theoefore to ee himself, and to pass a compliment upon Herod, tetrarch of Galilee, who was at 1hat time at Jerusalem, (becau8e Christ being a Galilean, was of Held's jurisdiction) Pilate sent him to Herod; and rather as a madman than a malcfactor, Herod remanded him wlth scorns to Pilate to proceed against him; and this was about eiht of thc c]ock. Hast t]mu been content to corne to fl»is inqulsition, this examination, this agitation, thls cribration, this pursuit of thv conscience, to sift it, to foilow it from thc ins of thy youth to thy present siu8, from thc sins of thy bed to the sins of thy board, and from the substance to the circumstance of thy sins Tiret is rime spcnt like thy Saviour's. Pilate would bave saved Christ by using the i)rivilege of the day in his behaif, hecause that day one prisoner was to be dclirered; but tlaey chose Barabbas. tle wouid laave savcd hina from deatla, by tit'ing their fi]ry, with iuflictiug othcr torments Ul»On him, sourging, aud crowning witla timrns, aud loading laiaaa with manv scorutbl aad iguominious c«»ntumelies; but this redeemed him hot; they pressed a crucit)'iug, l last thou gone al»out to redeem thv sin, by fasting, by ahus, by diseildines, aud nmrtifications, in the wav of satisfaction to the justice of (iod [ That will hot serve, that is hot the right way. XVo lWeSS au ntter erucifyiug of tbat sln that governs tbee, aud that euuforms thee to Christ. Towards noon l'ilatc gave judgment; and they ruade such hasto to execution, as that by nn he was Ul)On the cross. There uow hangs that 8acred body upon the cross, re-baptized in his own tear8 aud 8weat, and embahned in his owu blood alive. Tbere are those boweh of compassion, which are so eonspicuous, so manifested, as that you may sec them through Iris wounds. The, those glorious eyes grew faint in their light, so as the sun, ashamed to survive them, departed with hls light too. And there that Son of God, who was uever from ns, aud yet had now corne a new way unto us, in assuming out natuoe, delivers that oul wblch was never out of his Father'8 hands, iuto his FatheFs hands, by a new way, a voluntary emisslon thereof; for though to this God out Lord belong these issues of dead;, so that, considered in his own contract, he nmst necessarily c98 PREACttED AT 'HITEHALLo [SER. CLIIIo die; et af no brech, nor batter hch thcy had made upon scred bod, issues hs oul, but m, he ave up he ihot: and as God breathed a soul into the tïrst Adam, so ths second Adam breathed his soul into God, into the hnds of God. There we leave you, in that blessed dependency, to hng upou him, that hangs upon the cross. There bathe in his teurs, there suck at his wounds, and lie down in peace in his grave, till he vouchsafe you a resurrection, and an ascensiou into that kingdom which he hath purchased for you, with the inestimable price of his incorruptible blood. Amen.
COLLECTION OF LETTERS, WRITTEN TO SEVERAL PERSOIS Of IIOIOUR.
THE little business which you left in my hanàs l)atcheà; if it bave hung longer than you thought, it might serve for just excuse, that these small things male as many stels to their end, and neeà as many motions for the warrant, as much writing of the clerks, as long expectation of a seal, as greater. It cornes now to you sealed, anà with it as strong and assureà seals of my service and love to you, if it be gooà enough for you. I owe you a continual tributs of letters. But, sir, even in princes and parents, and all states that bave in them a natural soverei-nty, there is a sort of reciprocation, and a descent to ào some olces due to them that ser'e them: which makes me look for lettcrs from you, because I ha-e another as 'Muable a l)avn tberefor, as your friendship, vhich is your promise; lest by the gao]er's fault this letter sticl long, I must tell you, that I vrote autl sent it 12tl December, 1600. Your friend and servant anà ]over, 12th I)ecember, 1600. J. DONNE.
Though you escape my ]ifting up of my ]atch by rentoving, you cannot my letters; yet of this letter I do hot much ac- cuse myself, for I serve your commandment in it, for it is only to convey to you this iaper opposed to those, with which you trusted me. It is, I cannot say the weightiest, but truly the saddest lucubration and nig|lt'S passage that ever I had. For it exercised those hours, which, with extreme danger of her, whom I should hardly have abstained from recompensing for her company in this world, with accolnpanying ber out of it, increased luy poor family with a son. Though her anguish, and my fears, and hopes, seem divers aud wild distractions from this mnall business of your papers, yet because they all narrowed themselves, aud met in via reyia, which is the consideration of ourselves, and God, I thought it time hot unfit for this dispatch. Thus much more than needed I bave told you, whilst my tire was lighting at Tricombs, 10 o'clock. Yours ever entirely, J. Do..'E.
LETTER Il I. To,S'ir Henry Goodyere*. Sir. Though my friendship be good for nothing else, it may give you the profit of a tentation, or of an aietiou: it may excuse your patience; and though it eanuot allure, it shall importuue you. Though I know you have many worthy friends of ail ranks, yet I add something, since I which ara of none, would fain be your fi'iend too. There is some of the honour and some of the degrees of a ereation, to make a friendship of nothing. Yet, hot to annihilate myself utterly (for though it seem humbleness, yet it is a work of as much ahnightiness, to bring a thing to uothing, as from nothing), though I be hot of the best stuff for friendship, whieh men of warm and durable fortunes only are, I eannot say, that I ara hot of the best fashion, if truth and honesty be that; whieh I must ever exereise, towards you, beeause I learned it of you: for the conversation with worthy men, and ofgood example, though it sow no virtue in us, yet produeeth and ripeneh it. Your nmn's haste, and mine fo Mieham, cuts off this letter here, ye, as in little patterns torn from a whole pieee, this may tell Of Polesworth, Gentleman oi r hLs Majest" Prlvy Chamber.Eo.
you what ail I am. Though by taking me before my day (which I aeeounted Tuesday) I make short payment of this duty of letters, yet I have a little eomfort in this, that you sec me hereby, willing to pay those debts which I e_an, before my rime. Your affectionate friend, First Saturday in Match, 1607. J. Do.sE. You forgot to send me the apology; and many rimes, I think if an injury to remember one of a promise, lest if confess a distrust. But of the book, by occasion of reading the Dean's answer to it, I bave sometimes some want.