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 Right Reverend Father in Goo, 
 
 Thomas l\en, D.D. 
 
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A 
 
 Short Account 
 
 OF THE 
 
 LIFE 
 
 O F 
 
 Thomas I\en 9 
 
 sometime 
 Lord Bifhop of Bath and Wells. 
 
 HO MJS, Youngest 
 Son of Tloonuvi Ken 
 of Furnival's-Irmy by 
 Martha his Wife, was 
 born ac fiarkbamftead in Hert- 
 ford/hire, in July 1637. *^* s ^ a " 
 ther's Family was of great Anti- 
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 quity, and had poflefled a very 
 plentiful Fortune for many Gene- 
 rations, having been known by 
 the Name of the Kens , of Ken* 
 Tlace , an Eftate, now in PorTef- 
 fion of the Right Honourable 
 Earl Toulett, who defcends from 
 an Heirefs of the Kens *. 
 
 When he was about the Age 
 of he was fent to School at 
 Wincbefler 'College, where he con- 
 traded that Friendship, fo clofe- 
 ly at length cemented, between 
 himfelf, and that afterward moft 
 truly Pious Prelate, Dr. Francis 
 Turner^ late Bifhop of Ely ; and 
 where his Parts, Application, 
 and Behaviour, were fo well em- 
 ploy 'd, and obferv'd, that at the 
 Age of he was Elected to 
 
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 * John, Lord Paulett of Hint on St. George, 
 married Cbriftian, Daughter and Heir of 
 Cbrijtopber Kw> of Km in Corn Svm Efq; 
 DuglBar, 
 
Life of Bijhop Ken. 3 
 
 Nevj'College , Oxon ; where he 
 took his Batchelor of Arts De- 
 gree May 3. 1661 ; and his De- 
 gree of iMafter of Arts, Jan. 1 1 . 
 1664.; Bachelor of Divinity, 
 1678 ; and Doctor of Divinity, 
 June 30. 1 679. But by Reafon he 
 out-liv'd all, or moft, of his Con- 
 temporaries, and that therefore 
 little Account of his Behaviour 
 in that Place can be had , I fhall 
 not render this whole Account 
 fufpicious, by inferting Surmife, 
 where I intend to advance no- 
 thing, but what may evidently be 
 made appear.I fhall only add this, 
 That as loon as hisCircumftances 
 would permit, he gave them up- ' 
 wards of One Hundred Pounds, 
 as a fmall Acknowledgment for 
 his Education, and towards the 
 Ere&ing of their New Building. 
 He was from hence, on Dec. 8. 
 in the Year 1666, chofen into the 
 A 3 So- 
 
4 A Short Account of the 
 
 Society of IVmcbefter, where his 
 moft Exemplary Goodnefs & Pie- 
 ty did eminently exert itfelf ; for 
 that College being chiefly defign'd 
 by its Founder, for a retir'd and 
 ftudious Life, What could a great 
 and generous Spirit propofe ? but 
 the Good of Souls, and the 
 *««7 1 * GLORY of that God, to whom 
 
 to Goet,wiS A I a * M 1 • 
 
 his con- he conftantly aicnbed it, even in 
 
 fiant Pre- * 
 
 fcri ? tto his mod familiar Letters. And 
 Sand*" for this Purpofe, he kept a con- 
 ^pers. ft ant Courfe of Preaching at St. 
 ffobns Church in the Soak, near 
 IVinton, ( where there was no 
 Preaching Minilter, and which 
 he therefore called his Cure ) and 
 brought many Anabaptifts to the 
 Church of England, and bapti- 
 zed them hknfelf. And that 
 neither his Study might be the 
 AggrefTor on his Hours of In- 
 •ftruclion \ or what he judg'd his 
 T)uty, present his Improvement ; 
 
 
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 or both, his Clofet Add relies to 
 his God \ he ltri&ly accuftomM 
 himfelf to but one Sleep, which 
 often oblig'd him to rife at One, 
 or Two of the Clock in the 
 Morning, and fometimes iboner. 
 And grew ib habitual, that it 
 continued with him almoft till 
 his laft Illneis. And fo lively 
 and chearful was his Temper, 
 that he would be very facetious 
 and entertaining to his Friends in 
 the Evening , even when it was 
 perceived that with Difficulty he 
 kept his Eyes open ; and then 
 leem'd to go to Reft with no 
 other Purpofe than the refrefhing 
 and enabling him with more Vi- 
 gor and Chearfulnefs to fing his 
 Morning-Hymn, as he then us'd 
 to do to his Lute before he put 
 on his Cloaths. 
 
 Some Time after he was Fel- 
 low of IVincbe ft er ^College , Dr. 
 A 4. George 
 
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 George Morley, then Bifiop of 
 that Diocefe, made him his Do- 
 meftick Chaplain, and prefcnted 
 him to the Parfonage of Wood- 
 hay ^ in Hampjhire, vacant by the 
 Removal of his Tutor, Dr. Shar- 
 rock And it was about this 
 Time he composed, andpublifh'd, 
 his Manual of Trayers for the Ufe 
 of the Winchefter Scholars. That 
 Prelate foon after, without any 
 Application made in his behalf, 
 preferr'd him to the Dignity of a 
 'prebendary in theCathedral-Cburch 
 of Winton ; and he was InftalFd 
 accordingly, Ayril\i. 1669. In 
 which Poft, he was taken notice 
 of by King Charles the lid. In 
 the Year 1675, the Year of Ju- 
 bilee, he travelled through Italy, 
 and to Rome ; and upon his Re- 
 turn within that fame Year, he 
 was often heard to fay, That he 
 hac} great Reafon to give Go4 
 
 TJianks 
 
Life of Bijhop Ken. 7 
 
 Thanks for his Travels ; fince 
 (if it were poflible ) he returned 
 rather more confirmed of the Pu- 
 rity of the Proteftant Religion, 
 than he was before. And now 
 that Prince made Choice of 
 him to go with the Lord i Daru 
 mouth, to the demolishing of Tan* 
 gier ; and at his Return from 
 thence, himfelf gave Order he 
 mould be his Chaplain. 
 
 He was fome.Time after this 
 made Chaplain to the Princefs of 
 Orange, who was at that Time 
 refiding in Holland ; in which 
 Poft, his moft prudent Behaviour, 
 and ftrid Piety, gain'd him en- 
 tire Credit, and high Efteem 
 with that Trincefs : But a Con- 
 fequential Ad of his Angular 
 Zeal for the Honour of his Coun- 
 try, in behalf of a young Lady, 
 fo far exafperated the Trine?, 
 that he very warmly threatned 
 
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 to turn him from the Service; 
 which the 2) odor relenting , and 
 begging Leave of the Trincefs, 
 {whom to his Death he diftin- 
 guifh'd by the Title of his Mi- 
 -ftrefs ) warn'd himfelf from the 
 "Service, and would not return to 
 that Court , till by the Intreaty 
 of the Trince himfelf, he was 
 courted to his former Poft and 
 RefpecT: ; confenting to continue 
 there for one Year longer, ( du- 
 ring which Time he was taken , 
 at lea ft into a Shew of great Fa- 
 miliarity ); and when that Year 
 expired, he returned for England. 
 This was not unknown to the 
 King, nor did he fhew the lea ft 
 Diflike to his Behaviour ; for 
 when the See -of- Bath and Wells 
 became vacant, by the Removal 
 of Dr. Teier Mews to Winton^ 
 the King himfelf ftopp'd all At- 
 tempts of Dr. Kens Friends, 
 
 (who 
 
Life of Bifhop K e n. 9 
 
 ("who would of their own Inclina- 
 tions have apply'd in his behalf) 
 with this remarkable Saying , 
 That Dr. i&« mould- fucceed, but 
 that he defign'J it fhould be from 
 his own peculiar Appointment. 
 And accordingly the King himielf 
 gave Order for a Conge dejlire to 
 pais the Seals for that Purpofe ; 
 and he was Confecrated Bifhop of 
 Bath and Wells on St. Taul's 'Day, 
 in the Year 1 684. And this even 
 juft after his Opinion, That a 
 Woman of ill Repute ought not 
 to be endured in the Houfe of a 
 Clergyman, efpecially the Kings 
 Chaplain, was publickly known. 
 For at that Time the Kim co- 
 ming to Winton, and his Harbin- 
 ger having mark'd the Do&or's 
 Houfe, which he held in Right 
 of his Prebend, for the Life of 
 Mrs. Gw?«, he abiblutely re~ 
 fufed her Admittance, and fhe 
 
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 was forced to feek other Lodg- 
 ings. 
 
 And now at this Juncture it 
 was, when that Kings Period of 
 Life drew near, his Diftemper 
 feizing his Head, and our Biftiop 
 well knowing how much had 
 been put off to that laft Point, 
 and fearing the Strength of his 
 Diftemper would give him but 
 little Time, (as indeed it prov'dj 
 (his Duty urging him,) he gave a 
 clofe Attendance by the Royal 
 Bed, without any Intermiffion, 
 at leaft for Three whole Days 
 and Nights ; watching at proper 
 Intervals, to fuggeft Pious and 
 proper Thoughts, and Ejacula- 
 tions, on fo ferious an Occafion ; 
 in which Time, the Dutchefs 
 of Tortjmouth coming into the 
 Room, the Bifhop prevaiPd with 
 his Majefty to have her remov'd, 
 and took that Occafion of repre- 
 
 fentlng 
 
 
Life of Bifhop Ken. i i 
 
 fenting the Injury and Injuftice 
 done to his Queen fo effectually, 
 that his Majefty was induc'd to 
 fend for the Queen , and asking 
 Pardon, had the Satisfaction of 
 her Forgivenefs before he died. 
 The Bifhop having homely urged 
 the Neceffity of a full, and pre- 
 vailed, as is hop'd, for a fincere 
 Repentance, feveral times pro- 
 posed the Adminiftration of the 
 Holy Sacrament : But altho' it 
 was not abfolutely rejected , it 
 was yet delay 'd, from time to 
 time, till (I know not by what 
 Authority ) the Bifhop, and all 
 others prefent , were put out 
 from the Prefence, for about the 
 Space of Half an Hour, during 
 which Time,ithas been fuggefted, 
 that Father Huddle/Ion was ad- 
 mitted to give Extreme Unclion ; 
 And the Interval between this, 
 and Death, was fo fhort) that 
 
 no' 
 
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 nothing concerning the Bifhop's 
 Behaviour happened, worthy of 
 Notice in this Account. This 
 clofe Attendance the Bifhop 
 thought fo abfolutely necefTary, 
 as thereupon to delay his Ad mil- 
 lion to the Temporaries of the 
 See of Wells ; fo that, when 
 King James came to the Crown, 
 new Inftruments were pafs'd for 
 that Purpofe, and he was accord- 
 ingly in full Poffeffion. 
 
 At this Time, it was frequent- 
 ly laid by many of Eminence, 
 who knew him well, That they 
 never knew any Perfon fo able, 
 and earneft to do good in fuch a 
 Station, as he was. He had a 
 very happy Way of mixing his 
 Spiritual with his Corporal Alms. 
 When any poor Perfon begg'd of 
 him, he would examine whether 
 he could fay the. Lord's Prayer, 
 or the Creed ; and he found fo 
 
 much 
 
Life of BifJoop Ken. i 3 
 
 much deplorable Ignorance a- 
 mong the grown poor People, 
 that he feared little Good was to 
 be done upon them : But faid, 
 he would try, whether he could 
 not lay a Foundation, to make 
 the next Generation better. And 
 this put him upon letting up ma- 
 ny Schools in all the great Towns 
 of his Diocefe, for poor Children 
 to be taught to read, and fay 
 their Catechifm ; and about this 
 Time, and for this Purpofe it 
 was, that he wrote, and pub- 
 lifh'd , his Expofition en the 
 Church-Catechiim. And altho* 
 it contain'd nothing, but what 
 was ftr icily conformable to the 
 DocTxine of the Church of Enz* 
 
 Op 
 
 (and, yet there being an ExpreC- 
 fion in the Firft Edition , which 
 thePapifts at that Time laid hold 
 of, as if it favoured their Do- 
 Clrine of Tranfublxantiation ; he* 
 
 took 
 
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 took particular Care in the next 
 
 * Vide Edition ** eve " in that Reign, 
 the Edit, by altering the Expreffion^ to 
 ascertain the Senfe. By this Me- 
 thod and Management he enga- 
 ged theMinifters to be more care- 
 ful in Catechizing the Children of 
 their Parifhes; and they were by 
 him furnidied with a Stock of ne- 
 ceffary Books for the Ufe of 
 Children. And we may now 
 jndge 1 by the great and good Suc- 
 cefs of theCharity*Schools, which 
 are now fo numerous, what great 
 and good Ends he at that Time 
 propos'd. About this Time alio, 
 he publifh'd his Prayers for the 
 life of the Bath. 
 
 He went often in the Summer 
 Time to fome great Parifh,where 
 he would Preach twice, Confirm, 
 and Catechize ; and when he 
 was at home on Sundays, he 
 would have Twelve poor Men f 
 
Life of Bifhop Ken. 15 
 
 or Womert, to dine with him in 
 his Hall : Always endeavour- 
 ing , whilft he fed their Bo- 
 dies, to comfort their Spirits, by 
 fome chearful Difcourfe, gene- 
 rally mixt with fome ufeful In- 
 ftruction. And when they had 
 dined, the Remainder was divi- 
 ded among them, to carry home 
 to their Families. 
 
 By his Inftru&ion and Exam- 
 ple, he aw'd Men into a Senfe of 
 Religion and Duty. He often 
 deplor'd the Condition of the 
 Poor at Wells, (who were very 
 numerous.) And as he was cha- 
 ritably difpofed, fo he was very 
 earned in contriving proper Ex- 
 pedients of Relief; and thought 
 no Defign could better anfwer all 
 the Ends of Charity, than the 
 fetting up a Work-houfe in that 
 Place. But judging it not practi- 
 cable without the Advice, or at 
 B leall 
 
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 lea ft the Affifta'nce, of the Gen- 
 tlemen, he therefore often met, 
 and confulted with them ; but 
 not finding any fuitable Encou- 
 ragement, he was forc'd to defift. 
 In this he had a double View ; 
 to rcfcue the Idle from vicious 
 Practice, and Converfation ; and 
 the Induftrious, from the Op- 
 preflion of the Tradefmen \ who, 
 to ufe his own Expreflion, did 
 grind the Face of the 'poor, grow* 
 ir.g Rich by their Labour, and ma* 
 king them a very jcanty Allowance 
 j or their Work. 
 
 His Conduct at the Time of 
 the Rebellion under the Duke of 
 • Monmouth, had fufficiently con- 
 firmed King James in Opinion of 
 his Duty and Allegiance; infb- 
 mucb, that altho' he daily relieved 
 Tome Hundred of the Rebel Pri- 
 foners, then in Wells, daily pray- 
 ing with them in Perfon y the 
 
 King 
 
Life of Bifho p Ken. 17 
 
 King judging that it was only 
 out of a Principle of Duty to 
 diftrefled Brethren, to fave them 
 from perifhing both in Body and 
 Soul y never lb much as harbour- 
 ed any jealous Thought of him : 
 Nay, lb far did that King enter- 
 tain Hopes of his abfolute Obe- 
 dience to his Will and Plealure^ 
 that altho' many of his Sermons 
 were fram'd againft the Church 
 of Rome, yet it was thought 
 worth while toattempttogain him 
 over to the Intereft of that Party 
 at Court; but fo ineffectually.) 
 that upon the preaching of one 
 of the Two Sermons now pub- 
 lifrYd, and in the King's own 
 Chapel at iVbite-Hall , ( which 
 feems wholly intended againft, 
 both the Topifi and Fanatick Fa- 
 dions,then united at Court; ) and 
 it being mifreprefented to the 
 King, (who had not been prefent 
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 at Divine Service ) but fending 
 for the Bifhop, and clofetting him 
 on the Occafion, received nothing 
 in Anfwer, but this Fatherly Re- 
 piimand ; That if his Majefly 
 had nut neglefted bn oison Duty of 
 being prefent , bis Enemies bad 
 mifs'd this Of fort unity of accujing 
 him : Whereupon he was dif- 
 mifsM. 
 
 Bu*" alf ho' that Prince did not 
 miftake his Integrity, yet cer- 
 tainly he was miftaken in him on 
 a much more fatal Occafion ; for 
 now came the Difpenfing Power 
 in Play, and his Majefty's Deck' 
 ration of Indulgence^ was ftri£Uy 
 commanded to be read ; when 
 this Bifhop was one of the Seven, 
 who openly oppofed the reading 
 it, fupprels'd thofe which were 
 fent to him to be read in his Dio- 
 cefe, and petitioned the King 
 not to purfue , what was likely 
 
 to 
 
Life of Bifldop Ken. 19 
 
 to prove fo prejudicial borh to 
 Church and State: Which Peti- 
 tion being called trea(bnable 5 was 
 made the Occafion ofcoirimitting 
 him to the 'Tower , in order to a 
 Tryal: All which being already 
 well known, 1 mall no Longer 
 dwell on fo grating a Subject. 
 But tho' he dared to difobey his 
 Sovereign, in order to prefei ve 
 the Purity of his Religion ; and. 
 the Care of his Flock was always 
 neareft his Heart ; yet rather 
 than violate his Conscience by 
 transferring his Allegiance , tie 
 chofe to leave both himfelf and 
 them, to the Protection of the 
 Almighty. 
 
 So when the Prince of 
 
 Yanve 
 
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 came over, and the Revolution 
 was grounded on the Abdication 
 of King James, the Bifhop reti- 
 red; and as loon as King William 
 W3S feated on the Throne, and 
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 the Oaths of Allegiance were to 
 be taken to him, he, for his Re- 
 fufal being deprived by the State, 
 did relinquish his Revenue, (tho' 
 not his Care) with as clear a 
 Confcience, and as generous a 
 Mind, as that by which it was 
 once beftowed on him. 
 
 At the Time of his being 
 made Bifhop, Mr. Francis Mor* 
 ley, Nephew to the foremention'd 
 Biihop, knowing how little he 
 had provided for fuchan Expence, 
 as attends the Entry and Conti- 
 nuance in fuch a Chair, moft ge- 
 neroufiy otFer'd, and lent him a 
 coniiderable Sum to defray his 
 Expences, and furnifh him with 
 an Equipage , as his Station re- 
 quired : Which he would often 
 mention with a grateful Acknow- 
 ledgment, expreffing a particular 
 Satisfaction, when he found him- 
 ielf in a Condition to diicharge 
 
 the 
 
Life of BiJIoop Ken. ii 
 
 the Debt. And he was often by 
 Dr. Thomas Cheyney ('one of his 
 Chaplains, to whom I am oblig'd 
 for many of the Particulars which 
 frame this Account ) obferv'd to 
 complain, that for this very Rea- 
 ion no great Matter iva< to be ex* 
 pefiedfrom him ; as thinking him- 
 felf obliged to be juft, before he 
 could be charitable. But here, 
 if any mould expert Extrava- 
 gance, in that having enjoy 'd 
 iuch Preferments he was ftill 
 poor, it muft be obferv'd, that, 
 if there can be an Extravagant 
 in Good Works, he was luch, in 
 that moft Excellent Gift of Cha- 
 rity. His whole Fortune lying 
 in his Preferments, thole of his 
 Relations who were neceffitous, 
 ( but whom he could never re- 
 gard the lets for their being fo ) 
 were a continual Drain upon his 
 Revenue : And he feem'd to joy 
 B 4 with 
 
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 with thofe who Hv'd in more 
 Plenty, not more for their own 
 Well-being, than that thereby he 
 was at Liberty to difperfe the 
 Remainder of his Income, to ne- 
 ceffitous Strangers. Which he 
 always did with fo open a Boun- 
 ty, that he became a common Fa- 
 ther to all the Sons and Daughters 
 of Affliction. His Charity was fo 
 extenfive, that having once, while 
 in the See of Bath and Wells, re- 
 ceiv'd a Fine of Four Thoufand 
 Pounds, great Part of it was gi- 
 ven to the French Froteflants ; 
 and fo little Regard had to future 
 Contingencies, that when he was 
 depnv'd by the State, (which 
 was not long after ) all his Ef- 
 fects, after the Sale of all his 
 Goods, excepting his Books, 
 ( which he never fold ) would 
 amount to no more than Seven 
 Hundred Pounds, Which with 
 
 the 
 
Life of Bijhop Ken. 23 
 
 the ever to be acknowledged Ge- 
 nerofity of his Noble Friend, and 
 Eminent Benefactor, procured 
 him the Enjoyment of a clear 
 Quarterly Payment of Twenty 
 Pounds, which that Noble Peer 
 charg'd on Part of his own 
 Eftate ; and which among many 
 other, and greater Favours, is 
 thus thankfully acknowledged in 
 the laft Will and Teftament of 
 our Grateful Bifhop : (JTiz.) I 
 Leave and Bequeath to the Right 
 Honourable THOMAS LORD 
 FISCOUNTWEYMOMTH, 
 
 in Cafe he outlives me, all my Books, 
 of 'which his Lordfhip has not the 
 ^Duplicates, as a Memorial oj my 
 Gratitude for his fignal and continu- 
 ed favours. Belides which Gift 
 of Books, he had in his Life-time, 
 both before and after Deprivati- 
 on, given feveral large Catalogues 
 fo Places that were populous, and 
 
 had 
 
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 had Parochial Libraries within 
 his own Diocefe. He had an Ex- 
 cellent Genius for , and Skill iin 
 Mufick ; and whenever he had 
 convenient Opportunities for it, 
 he performM ibme of his Devo- 
 tional Part of Praife with his 
 own Compofltions, which were 
 Grave and Solemn. 
 
 He had always a great Relifh 
 for divine Toefy ; and in his Re- 
 tirement under this Noble Lord's 
 Roof, he compofed many Excel- 
 lent, Ufeful, and Pious Pieces, 
 which ( together with one Epic 
 Toem, which was written by him 
 about the Time of his Voyage 
 to Tangier, and feems to have 
 had his laft Hand ) may foon be 
 ready for the Prefs , if this Spe- 
 cimen be well accepted. But 
 now his publick Affairs giving 
 room, and his Cholick Pains 
 rendring him uncapable of more 
 
 ferious 
 
Life of Bifhop Ken. 25 
 
 ferious Study, he applied himfelf 
 lb happily to this favourite Enter- 
 tainment, as thereby in fome 
 meature to palliate the Acutenefs 
 of his Pain, and, as is hop'd and 
 conceiv'd, may give full Satisfa- 
 ction to his Readers, by promo- 
 ting their chief Happinefs, to the 
 Glory of God the Giver. So 
 dole was his Application to thefe 
 Studies, and fo was his Mind bent 
 upon Quietneis , that during all 
 the Time of his Retirement, and 
 among all the Attempts of, and 
 Clamours again ft, thofe called 
 Jacobites- in the Reign of King 
 William, he was never once di- 
 fturb'd in that quiet Enjoyment 
 of himfelf, and 'tis prefum'd, ne- 
 ver fufpe&ed of any ill Deiign ; 
 iince never publickly molefted, 
 or privately rebuk'd. 'Tis true, 
 he was once fent for by Warrant, 
 to appear before the Privy Coun- 
 cil 
 
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 cil in the Year 1 696 ; but having 
 the Particular of that Matter by 
 me, left under his own Hand, I 
 think it beft to refer the Reader 
 to it, as fubjoin'd to the latter 
 End of this Account. That his 
 Opinion was not agreeable with 
 fuch of the Nonjurors, who were 
 for continuing a Separation, by 
 private Conjecrations among them- 
 ielves, may ( fhou'd there be any 
 good Occafion ) beft be known 
 by his Anfwers to Letters, writ- 
 ten from Men of Learning, who 
 conversed with him on that Sub- 
 ject * and which he left behind 
 him : And from what I muft af- 
 firm, that it was on his Requeft 
 the prefent Bifhop of Bath 
 and Wells accepted of that See. 
 And becaufe fome have attempt- 
 ed to detract from this good Man, 
 ■is if tainted with Errors of Po- 
 pery, and not fo ftedfaft to the 
 
 Doctrine 
 
Life of Bifhop Ken. 27 
 
 Do&rine of the Church of Eng- 
 land, and perhaps for Want of a 
 (ready Conduct about the Time 
 of the Revolution; I think my 
 felf obliged , not only from his 
 Will, made not long before his 
 laft Sicknefs ( and which being 
 taken as a Death-bed Profeffion 
 of Faith , may gain the greater 
 Credit ) to tranfcribe the Words 
 following : i As for my Religion, 
 
 * I die in the Holy Catholich and 
 c Afoflolick Faith, profefs'd by the 
 4 whole Church before the Difunion 
 i of Eaft and Weft ; more particu- 
 c larly I die in the Communion of the 
 c Church of England, as it fiands 
 1 diftinguifh'd from all Papal and 
 
 * Puritan Innovations, akd as it ad- 
 c heres to the 'Dofirine of the Crofs : 
 But likewife to adjoin a Letter 
 from the prefent Bifhop of Sa- 
 rum, written to him juft before 
 his Deprivation, which, together 
 
 with 
 
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 with our Bimop's Anlwer, may 
 not only (hew that Bifhop's Opi- 
 nion of the Honour he had been 
 to, and the Service he had done 
 the Church, but likewife the 
 Caution our Bifhop ufed towards 
 others, in regard to their taking 
 the Oaths, and his good Wifhes 
 for the Profperity of our Church. 
 
 My Lord) 
 
 6 HP HIS Gentleman who is 
 
 -■* c prefented to a living in 
 
 your Lordfhip's Diocefe came 
 
 to me to receive Inftitution but 
 
 1 have declined the doing of it 
 
 and fo have fent him over to 
 
 your Lordlhip that you being 
 
 iatisfy'd with relation to him 
 
 may order your Chancellor to 
 
 do it I was willing to lay hold 
 
 on this Occafion to let your 
 
 Lordlhip know that I intend to 
 
 c make 
 
Life of Bijhop Ken. 29 
 
 make no other ufe of theCom- 
 miffion that was fent me than 
 to obey any Orders that you 
 may fend me in fuch things as 
 my Hand and Seal may be ne- 
 ceflary I am extremely con- 
 cerned to fee your Lordfhip fo 
 unhappily pofiefs'd with that 
 which is likely to prove fo fatal 
 to the Church if we are depri- 
 ved of one that has ferved in it 
 with fo much Honour as you 
 have done efpecially at fuch a 
 time when there are fair hopes 
 of the reforming of feveral A- 
 bufes I am the more amazed to 
 fine 1 your Lordfhip fo pofitive 
 becaule fome have told my felf 
 that you had advifed them to 
 take that which you refufe ^pur 
 felf ati:t ot'ier c have told me 
 tha r-' j read aftoral Let r er 
 vvbrch you har: prepared for 
 v. - . : v.efe ana were reiolved 
 
 'to 
 
30 A Short Account of the 
 
 1 to print it when you went to 
 1 London your Lordftiip it feems 
 ' chang'd your Mind there which 
 ' gave great Advantages to thofe 
 ' who were fo fevereas to fay that 
 f there was fomewhat elfe than 
 
 * Confcience at the Bottom I 
 f take the liberty to write this 
 
 * freely to your Lordfhip for I 
 ' do not deny that I am in fome 
 ' pain till I know whether it is 
 
 * true or not I pray God prevent 
 ' a new breach in a Church which 
 c has fufFered fo feverely under 
 1 the old one 
 
 My LORD 
 
 Tour Lor dfbip's mo fi faithful 
 Sarum 
 
 Servant and Brother 
 
 Gi. Saruj^. 
 AH 
 
Life of Bifhop Ken. 31 
 
 All Glory be to God. 
 
 My Lord) 
 
 C Am obliged to your Lord* 
 
 •** c fhip^ for the continued 
 
 ' Concern you exprefs for me^ 
 
 * and for the kind Freedom you 
 are pleafed to take with me \ 
 
 c and though I have already in 
 < publick, fully declared my Mind 
 4 to my Diocefe concerning the 
 c Oath, to prevent my being mif- 
 4 underftood ; yet fince you feem 
 4 to expecl: it of me , I will give 
 4 fuch an Account , which if it 
 1 does not fatisfy your Lord(hip 1 
 c will at leaft fatisfy my felf. I 
 4 dare allure you, I never advifed 
 4 any one to take the Oath ; tho' 
 
 * fome, who came to talk infidi-* 
 
 * oufly with me, may have rais'd 
 
 C ' fuch 
 
32 A Short Account of the 
 
 fuch a Report : So far have I 
 beeii from it, that I never wou'd 
 adminifter it to any one Per- 
 fon, whom I was to collate. 
 And therefore, before the Act 
 took place, I gave a particular 
 Com million to my Chancellor, 
 who himfelf did not fcruple it ; 
 fo that he was Authorized, not 
 only to Institute, but alio to 
 Collate in my itead. If any 
 came to difcourfe with me about 
 taking the Oath, I ufually told 
 them, I durft not take it my 
 felf. I told them my Reafons, 
 if they urged me to it, and were 
 of my own Diocefe : And then 
 remitted them to their Study 
 and Prayers, for farther Dire- 
 ctions. 'Tis true, having been 
 fcandaliz'd at many Perfons of 
 our own Coat, who for feveral 
 Years together , preach'd up 
 Paffive Obedience to a much 
 
 f greater 
 
Life of Bijhop Ken. 33 
 
 1 greater height than ever I did, 
 1 it being a Subjedl with which 1 
 1 very rarely meddled, and on a 
 4 fudden, without the lea ft Ac- 
 4 knowledgment of their pad 
 4 Error, Preach'd and A&ed the 
 4 quite contrary ; I did prepare a 
 4 Pa floral Letter, which, if I 
 4 had ieen Reafon to alter my 
 4 Judgment, I thought to have 
 4 publifti'd ; at leaft that Part of 
 4 it, on which I laid the greater! 
 4 Strefs, to juftify my Conduct to 
 4 my Flock , and before I went 
 4 to London, I told fome of mv 
 4 Friends, That if * THA T 
 4 prov'd true, which was affirm- 
 4 ed to us with all imaginable Af- 
 
 * The Bifliop was about this Time con- 
 fidently affured, that King James had by 
 fome ipecial Inftrument made over 
 Kingdom of Ireland to the French King. 
 
 C 2 4 f 
 
34 ^ Short Account of the 
 
 furance, ( and which I think 
 more proper for Difcourfe than 
 a Letter ) it would be an In- 
 ducement to ine to comply ; but 
 when I came to Town, I found 
 it was falfe ; and without being 
 influenc'd by any one, or making 
 any Words of it, I burnt my 
 Paper, and adher'd to my for- 
 mer Opinion. If this is to be 
 called Change of Mind, and a 
 Change fo criminal, that Peo- 
 ple who are very difcerning, 
 and know my own Heart better 
 than my felf, have pronounc'd 
 Sentence upon me, That there 
 is fomething elfe than Confci- 
 ence at the Bottom j I am much 
 afraid, that fome of th'efe who 
 cenfure me, may be chargeable 
 with more notorious Changes 
 than that ; whether more con- 
 fcientious or no, God only is 
 
 4 the 
 
Life of Bifhop Kkn. 35 
 
 the Judge. If your Lordfhip 
 gives Credit to the many Miiie- 
 prefentations which are made 
 of me, and which, I being fo 
 us'd to can eahiy di (regard, you 
 may naturally enough be in 
 Pain for me : For to fee one of 
 your Brethren throwing himfelf 
 Headlong into a wilful Depriva- 
 tion, not only of Honour and 
 of Income, but of a good Con- 
 fcience alfo, are Particular?, out 
 of which may be fram'd an 
 Idea very deplorable. But tho' 
 I do daily in many things be- 
 tray great Infirmity, 1 thank 
 God, I cannot accufe my felf 
 of any Inlincerity ; fo that De- 
 privation will not reach my 
 Conlcience, and I am in no 
 Pain at all for my felf. 1 per- 
 ceive, that after we have been 
 [ Efficiently ridicul'd , the la ft 
 C 3 ' mor- 
 
3 6 A Short Account of the 
 
 c mortal Stab defign'd to be given 
 c us, is, to expofe us to the 
 c World for Men of no Confci- 
 ' ence ; and if God is pleas'd to 
 c permit it, his moft Holy Will 
 ? be done ; though what that par- 
 ' ticular Paffion of corrupt Na- 
 c ture is, which lies at the Bot- 
 c torn , and which we gratify in 
 f loving all we have, will be hard 
 *• to determine. God grant fuch 
 i Reproaches as theie may not 
 c revert on the Authors. 1 hearti- 
 % ly join with your Lordfliip in 
 c your Defires for the Peace of 
 
 * this Church ; and I fhall con* 
 5 ceive great Hopes, that God 
 G will have Com pajlion on her, if 
 c 1 fee that (he compaffionatesand 
 
 * lupports her Sifter of Scotland, 
 : f I befeech God to make you an 
 
 1 Inftrument to promote that 
 f Peace, and that Chanty, I my 
 
 6 felf 
 
Life of Bifhop K e n. 37 
 
 c felf can only contribute to , 
 c both by my Prayers, and by my 
 * Deprecations, againft Schifm, 
 c and againft Sacrilege. 
 
 Oftober 5, 
 
 1689. 
 
 My LORD, 
 
 Tour Lordfcip's very Faithful 
 
 Servant and Brother. 
 
 Tho. Bath & Wells. 
 
 C 4. And 
 
3 8 A Short Account of the 
 
 And becaufe I have lately feen 
 fome Reflections in a Pamphlet, 
 lately crept into the World under 
 
 vu Secret tne fiifpicious Title of a Secret 
 Hiftory of Hi/lory ; wherein Dr. Ken is by 
 
 Europe, -kt J ^ i 
 
 pan 2. jName mentioned to teaze the 
 p a g-27- <J) u k e j Monmouth in vain on 
 the Scaffold,' to frofefs the 2)<?- 
 Sir he of T a (five Obedience ; I 
 think it proper here in this place 
 boldly to affirm, that our Bifhop 
 ( for iuch he was at that Time, 
 and did attend on the Scaffold) 
 never a£fced or affifted there, but 
 in the Devotional Part only. 
 And this tho' a Negative, may be 
 prov'd to Satisfaction. 
 rid. from And as to what is fo confident- 
 joPagefsi. ly mentioned a little after, con- 
 cerning the Subfcription of the 
 Bifhop of Bath and WeUs, among 
 many others, to the Invitation of 
 the Prince of Orange ♦ was there 
 
 any 
 
Life of Bijhop K e n. 39 
 
 any fuch Subfcription any where 
 to be produced, it muft not have 
 been denied ; but there are very 
 ftrong Arguments to be urged, 
 that he never had any the leaft 
 Hand in that Matter, ' 
 
 And now to clofe all, I fhall 
 fet forth one Inftance of Care, 
 that himfelf might not offend. 
 For whilft he ftay'd in Town, 
 and lodg'd with his old Friend 
 Dr. Hooper, now Lord Bifhop of 
 Bath and Wells, who had daily 
 and earnestly difcours'd him on 
 the Subject of Compliance with 
 the Oath ; he at laft ufed thefe 
 Expreffions to him, — Iqueflion 
 not y hut that you, and feveral 
 others, have taken the Oaths 'with 
 as good a fynfeience, as my felf 
 fbaU refufe them ', and fometimes 
 you have almoji perfuaded me to 
 comply, by the Arguments you have 
 
 ufed; 
 
40 A Short Account of the 
 
 ufed ; but I beg you to urge them 
 no farther ; for fhould I be per\ua* 
 ded to comply , and after fee R.ea~ 
 Jon to repent, you would make me 
 the mo ft miferable Man in the 
 World. And left any hereafter 
 looking into his Will, and obfer- 
 ving the Legacies therein be- 
 queathed, fhould determine, that 
 either he who left fuch Legacies, 
 could not be this defcrib'd poor 
 Man; or this Man of Charity, to 
 have left more Legacies than Ef- 
 fects ; 1 think my, felf oblig'd to 
 reconcile thefe feeming Contra- 
 dictions , by a very eafy Expla- 
 nation. For fo little Diftruft had 
 our prefent Princefs on the 
 Throne, of any ill Actions of 
 this Juft and Religious Bilhop, fo 
 great an Opinion of his Honefty 
 and quiet Temper, that notwith- 
 ftanding he could not be prevail'd 
 with to qualify himfelf for living 
 
 linde^ 
 
Life of Bijhop Ken. 41 
 
 under Her Prote&ion, by the 
 now necefTary Oaths ; yet She 
 was glad he would not refufe 
 Her Yearly Favour , which She 
 was gracioufly pleas'd to beftow 
 on him to his Death, and wou'd 
 often complain, it was too little 
 for his Thanks, which he duti- 
 fully fent Her; which together 
 with a Legacy given him a little 
 before his Death, by a very valu- 
 able Friend of his, not only en- 
 abled him to do many A£us of 
 Charity in his Life-time, (as 
 what he chiefly propofed by ac- 
 cepting iO but his Executor 
 likewife, to difcharge all fuch 
 Legacies, as he thought fit to 
 charge him with. I (hall not be 
 fo bold as to fum up the Chara- 
 cter of fuch a Man, I have nei- 
 ther Leifure, or Opportunity, to 
 fearch for particular Fafts, a large 
 Account of his Life requiring 
 
 both 
 
42 A Short Account of the 
 
 both a more Able and Polite Ge- 
 nius and Pen. My Defign be- 
 ing only to give fome fhort Ac- 
 count to introduce his Writings 
 into the World, I fhall only add 
 fome few Matters of Fa6t of my 
 own Knowledge concerning his 
 laft Sicknefs, and leave the Rea- 
 der to refrelh himfelf with the 
 following Specimen. 
 
 Making bloody Water, which 
 was thought to be occafioned by 
 an Ulcer in his Kidneys, he 
 went to Briftol in the Beginning 
 of the Year 1710. for the Bene- 
 fit of the Hot ~We il ; where he 
 fpent the Summer, and till iV^ 
 vember following. At which 
 Time, he removed to Lewefton 
 near Sherborne in %)orfetJhire^ a 
 Seat belonging to the Honourable 
 Mrs. Thynne, whofe good Works 
 merited his Refpedl: and Acknow- 
 ledgment, as much as her Gene- 
 
 rofity 
 
Life of Bijhop Ken. 43. 
 
 rofity attempted the Relief of 
 his Dtftemper. And being there 
 feized with a dead Palfey on one 
 Side of him, he was confined to 
 hisChamber, till about the Middle 
 of March ; when being ( as he 
 thought ) able to take fuch a 
 Journey, he reiblvcd for the Bath, 
 in Hopes to find Relief from 
 thofe Waters ; nor could the 
 Per fua lions of that good Lady, 
 or his Phyfician, divert his De- 
 fign, tho' he laboured under ano- 
 ther Diftemper, (viz.) the Drop- 
 fy. So calling at Long-Leate on 
 Saturday, in his Way thither, he 
 fpent that Evening in adjulting 
 fome Papers ; all the next Day 
 he confined himfelf to his Cham- 
 ber, and on Monday he was con- 
 fined to his Bed ; till on the 
 Monday following, (viz.) March 
 19. 1 7 10. his Soul was fet free. 
 He was remarkably patient in 
 
 his 
 

 
 44 Jrf *Swf Account of the 
 
 his Sicknefs; and when upon 
 his own Enquiry of his Phyiici- 
 an, how many Days he thought 
 he might probably live, defiring 
 him to fpeak plainly and freely,, 
 and telling him he had no Rea- 
 fon to be afraid of dying ; and 
 being by him anfwered , About 
 Two or Three Days ; his only 
 Reply was (his ufual Expreffion, 
 and that without the leaft Con- 
 cern,) God's Will be done : Defi- 
 ring that no Applications might 
 be made to caufe him to linger 
 in Pain. It can be no Wonder 
 he fhould fo little regard the 
 Terrors of Death, who had for 
 many Years travelled with his 
 Shrowd in his Tortmantua y as 
 what he often faid, might be as 
 foon wanted as any other of his 
 Habiliments \ and which was by 
 himfelf put on, as foon as he 
 came to Longdate } giving no- 
 tice 
 
Life of Bifhop Ken. 45 
 
 tice of it the Day before his 
 Death, by way of Prevention, 
 that his Body might not be 
 ftripp'd. He doz'd much the 
 Day or two before he dyed ; and 
 what little he fpake, was fbme- 
 times not coherent, which having 
 been plied with Opiates, feem'd 
 to be rather the Effect of Dream, 
 than Diftemper. He was buried 
 at FroomeSehvood, it being the 
 nearer! Parifh within his own 
 Diocefe to the Place where he 
 died, as by his own Requeft, in 
 the Church-yard, under the Eaft 
 Window of the Chancel , jufl at Sun 
 rifing , without any Manner of 
 'Pomp or Ceremony, befides that of 
 the Order for Burial in the Litur* 
 gy of the Church of England ; on 
 the 1 1 ft Day of March , 1 7 1 o. 
 Anno J&tat, 73, 
 
 He 
 
4-6 A Short Account of the 
 
 He left behind him but few 
 Relations : Martha the Daugh- 
 ter of his Brother Mr. Jon Ken 
 by Rofe his Wife: Which Mar- 
 tha married to the Honourable 
 Chriftopher Frederick Kreien- 
 berg, Refident of his Elecloral 
 Highnefs of Hanover in London. 
 Jon Beacham at this Time Fel- 
 low of Trinity-College , and Wil- 
 liam Beacham fometime Fellow 
 of Neiu-CoUeve 0*wz, and flnce 
 deceased, who were the Sons of 
 his Sifter .Martha by her Huf- 
 band Mr. James Beacham. Ifaac 
 Walton Reiidentiary of the Ca-. 
 thedral Church of Sarum , and 
 Anne, Son and Daughter of his 
 Sitter Anne by her Husband 
 Mr. Ifaac Walton of London ; 
 which Anne having Married to 
 William Hawkins D. D. fome- 
 time Prebendary of the Cathe- 
 dral 
 
Life of B Jh)p Ken. 47 
 
 ■ - - ■ - — 
 
 dral Church of Winton, hid I flue 
 by him William and Awe, both 
 living. Which William being by 
 Will proved in the 'Prerogative 
 Court of Canterbury, April i\. 
 171 1, appointed Executor, and 
 having had Opportunities of 
 Knowledge and Enquiry of him, 
 iubmits this Impartial , and he 
 hopes not Unacceptable Account 
 to the Publick. 
 
 
 D 
 
 An 
 
48 A Short Account of the 
 
 An Account of his Exa- 
 mination beforethe 
 Privy-Council. 
 
 ■ — - --- — - - 
 
 All Glory he to God. 
 
 AFter the favourable Hearing, 
 which this Day the Lords 
 of the moft Honourable Privy- 
 Council gave me, Mr. Bridgman 
 came out to me to tell me, That 
 their Lord (hips expected a Copy 
 of my Anfwers ; which, as far 
 as I can recoiled:, I here numbly 
 offer to their Lordfhips. 
 
 The Printed Paper fubfcrib'd 
 by the Depriv'd Biihops, to beg 
 the Alms of Charitable People, 
 being fhew'd me, I was ask'd, 
 
 Did 
 
Life of Bi/hop Ken. 49 
 
 'Did you Subjcrlbe this Ta- 
 per ? 
 
 A. My Lords, I thank God 
 I did, and it had a very happy 
 Effcft ; for the Will of my Blei- 
 fed Redeemer was fulfill'd by it ; 
 and what we were not able to do 
 our felves, was done by others ; 
 the Hungry were fed , and the 
 Naked were cloath'd ; and to 
 feed the Hungry, to cloathe the 
 Naked, and to vifit thofe who 
 are fick or in Prilbn, is that Plea 
 which all your Lordfhips as well 
 as I, as far as you have had Op- 
 portunities, muft make for your 
 felves at the Great Day. And 
 That which you muft all plead 
 at God's Tribunal for your Eter- 
 nal Abfolution, (hall not, I hope, 
 be made my Condemnation here. 
 
 It was then faid to this Pur- 
 pofe ; Mo one here condemns Cbari- 
 
 D * t y> 
 
5 o A Short Account of U e 
 
 ty , but the Way you have taken to 
 procure it : Tour Taper is illegal, 
 
 A. My Lords, I can plead to 
 the Evangelical Part : 1 am no 
 Lawyer, but (hall want Lawyers 
 to plead that ; and I have been 
 very well allured that it is Legal. 
 My Lords, I will fincerely give 
 your Lordfhips an Account of the 
 Part I had in it. The firft Per- 
 fon who propofed it to me, was 
 Mr. Kettlewell, that Holy Man 
 who is now with God ; and af- 
 ter fome Time it was brought to 
 this Form, and I fubferibed it, 
 and then went into the Countrey 
 to my Retirement in an obfcure 
 Village, where I live above the 
 Sufpicion of giving any the leaft 
 Umbrage to the Government. 
 
 My Lords, I was not active in 
 making Collections in the L oun- 
 trey , where there are but few 
 fuch Obje&s of Charity ; but 
 
 good 
 
Life of Bijhop K E n. 5 1 
 
 good People of their own Ac- 
 cords (ent me towards Fourfcore 
 Pounds , of which about one 
 Half is ftill in my Hands. 
 
 1 beg your Lordlhips to ob- 
 ferve this Claufe in our Paper, 
 As far as in Law w may : And 
 to receive fuch Charity , is , I 
 prefume, which in Law I may ; 
 and to diftribute it, is a thing al- 
 fo, which in Law I may. 
 
 It was Objected to this Pur- 
 pofe : This Money has been abused 
 and given to very ill and immoral 
 Men ; and particularly to one who 
 goes in a Gown one day, and in a 
 Blue Silk IVaflcoat another. 
 
 A. My Lords, To give to an 
 111 Man may be a Miitake, and 
 no Crime , unlefs what was gi- 
 ven was given him to an ill Pur- 
 pole ; nay, to give to an ill Man 
 and knowingly, is our Di.ty, if 
 D 3 that 
 
— ■ — — — — — ' 
 
 ^ 2 A Short yk count of the 
 
 — — - — . - i 1 1 
 
 that 111 Man wants Neceffaries of 
 Life ; for as long as God's Pati- 
 ence and Forbearance indulges 
 that 111 Man Life to lead him to 
 Repentance, we ought to fupport 
 that Life God indulges him, ho- 
 ping for the happy Effect of it 
 
 My Lords, In King James's 
 Time there were about a Thou- 
 fand or more imprifon'd in my 
 Diocefe, who were engag'd in 
 the Rebellion of the Duke of 
 Monmouth ; and many of them 
 were fuch which I had Reafon to 
 believe to be ill Men , and void 
 of all Religion ; and yet for all 
 that, 1 thought it my Duty to re- 
 lieve them. Tis well known to 
 the Diocefe, that I vifited them 
 JSIight and Day, and I thank 
 God I fupply'd them with Ne- 
 ceffaries my felf, as far as I could, 
 and encouraged others to do the 
 fame 3 and yet King fames tie- 
 
 ver 
 
Life of Bifhop Ken. 53 
 
 ver found the leaft Fault with 
 me. And if 1 am now charged 
 with mifapplying what was gi- 
 ven , I beg of your Lordfhips, 
 that St. TauFs Apoftolical Rule 
 may be obferv'd, Againjl an El- 
 der receive not an Accusation, but 
 before two or three iVitneJfes ; for 
 I am fure none can teltify that 
 againft me. What I gave, I gave 
 in the Countrey $ and I gave to 
 none but thofe who did both 
 want and deferve it : The laft 
 that I gave was to Two Poor 
 Widows of Depriv'd Clergymen, 
 One whereof was left with Six, 
 the Other with Seven Small 
 Children. 
 
 It was faid to this Purpofe : 
 
 Tou are not charged your [elf with 
 giving to III Men, though it has 
 been done by others : But the Ta- 
 per comes out with a pretence of 
 D 4 Au- 
 
54 A Short Account of the 
 
 Authority, and it is illegal, an din 
 the Mature of a Brief ; and if 
 fuch TracHices are permitted, pri- 
 vate Men may fuperfede all the 
 Briefs granted by the King. 
 
 A. My Lords , I beg your 
 Pardon , if I cannot give a full 
 Anfwer to this ; I am no Lavw 
 yer, and am not prepared to ar- 
 gue it in Law. 
 
 It was farther obje&ed to this 
 Purpofe : By lending forth this 
 *Paper, you have ufurp'd Rcclefia- 
 jiical JurifdiBion. 
 
 A- My Lords, I never heird 
 that Begging was a Part of Ec- 
 cletiaftical Jurifdiclion ; and in 
 this Paper we are only Beggars, 
 which Privilege 1 hope may be 
 allow'd us. 
 
 I make no doubt , but your 
 Lordfhips may have had ftrange 
 Mifin formations concerning this 
 
 Pa- 
 
Life of Bifhop Ken. 55 
 
 Paper: But having iincerely told 
 you what Part 1 had in it, I 
 humbly iubmit my felf to your 
 Lordfhips Juftice. 
 
 I prelume your Lordfhips will 
 come to no immediate Rdbluti- 
 on concerning me ; and having 
 voluntarily fun end red my felf, 
 and the Warrant having never 
 been ferv'd on me till I had twice 
 attended here , this being the 
 Third Time , and my Health 
 being infirm, I beg this Favour 
 or your Lordfhips , that I may 
 return to my Sifter's Houfe , 
 where I have hitherto lodg'd, 
 which is a Place the MelTenger 
 knows well ; and that I may be 
 no otherwife confin'd, till I have 
 receiv'd your Lordfhips final Re- 
 solution. 
 
 This Favour your Lordfhips 
 were pleas'd very readily to grant 
 
 me; 
 
$6 A Short Account, &c. 
 
 me ' for which I return my hum- 
 ble Acknowledgments, befeech- 
 ing God to be gracious to your 
 Lordfhips. 
 
 April 28. 1696. 
 
 Thomas Bath & Wells^ 
 Depriv'd. 
 
 A SER- 
 
57 
 
 SERMON 
 
 PREACH'D in the 
 
 King's Chapel atWbitehatt, 
 In the Year 1685. 
 
 DAN. X. ii- 
 
 Daniel, a Man greatly beloved. 
 SJjHQS A M not furpriz'd , if at 
 
 5» 1 €il t ^ le ^ rj ^ ^ leir ^ n § * y ou cen ~ 
 
 fe^r * ^te§ ^ urc ^ le Choice °f m y Text, 
 »^>¥<^« as hiving no Regard to thofe 
 Two important Circumftances , Time y 
 find Place ; Not to Time , becaufe 
 the Story of Da?iiel feems foreign 
 to the Faft of Lent - y Not to Place, be- 
 caufe Daniel feems an Example unfit 
 for the Court :, being a Prophet , one 
 whofe Religion looks as much like his 
 
 Calling, 
 
58 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Calling , as his Virtue ; one who had 
 Supernatural Gifts, and immediate In- 
 fpi rations j which make up an Original 
 too Angular and Extraordinary, for any 
 but Prophets to Copy out. 
 
 But if it fhall appear, that Daniel was 
 not of the Sacerdotal, but Regal Line : 
 If it fhall appear, that he was a Courtier % 
 and not only a Courtier, but a Favourite ^ 
 and not only a Courtier, and a Favou- 
 rite , but a Minijier too ^ fuch a Courtier, 
 and Favourite, and Minijier , as no Age 
 can parallel : If to the Courtier , the ivz- 
 vourite; and the Minijier, be added th£ 
 Afcetick, and the &zm£ .- If in all thefe 
 refpe&s, he was, as the Margin literally 
 renders it, A Man of Dejires , or, ac- 
 cording to the Hebrew Idiom, a Man 
 greatly beloved , greatly beloved both by 
 God and Men : If from thefe Materials 
 I form fuch an Idea, which fhall be pro- 
 portioned to your Imitation, and fhew 
 you DanieVs Secret, that every one of 
 you may fkill the Art, to become great- 
 ly beloved, like him \ I hope you will be 
 reconciled to the Subjefr I have chofen, 
 as not being unfuitable to this Peniten- 
 tial Seafon, as not being improper for 
 this Auguft Aflembly, whofe Edification 
 is both my Duty ana Defign* 
 
 If 
 
in 
 
 the Tear 1685. ^9 
 
 I f then you will be plcas'd to take a 
 View of the feveral Excellencies of this 
 Great Man, fo greatly beloved, and fo 
 greatlv worthy of your Obfcrvation ^ 
 The tirft that occurs, is his Noble Ex- 
 traction. He and his Three Kiftfineh, 
 Hananiah, Mijhael, and Azariah, as to c.i. r.6. 
 their Tribe, were of the Children ok 
 JuJah ; and not only of the Royal 
 Tribe in general, but in particular, of 
 the Royal Family, as all agree : And 
 though Jofephus will have them of the 
 Kindred of King Zedehab , yet they 
 feem to fpeak more probably, who affirm 
 them to be Sons of King HezeBab, or 
 rather defcended from him : This being 
 moft confonant to the Prophecy of /- 
 faiah, who foretells concerning Heze- 
 kiah, That his Sons which fbould iffue 
 from him , fbould be taken away , and 
 Jhould be in the Palace of the Kmg of Ba- 
 bylon : And this was punftuafly ful- 
 hll'd, when Nebuchadnezzar command- chap. 1: 
 ed Jfbptnaz to bring certain of the Chri- v. 3. 5- 
 clren of Ifrael, and of the King's Seed y 
 and of the Princes , that they might 
 jland in the Kings Palace, and before 
 the King, that they might live conftant- 
 ly in the Court : And the Perfons who 
 were thus brought, were Daniel, and his 
 
 Three 
 
60 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Three Companions, who were therefore 
 all Four Princes by Royal Defcent, and 
 Courtiers by Royal Designation. 
 
 But that I may more particularly pur-- 
 fue the Character of Daniel \ leaving his 
 other Three Fellow-Courtiers, I am next 
 to add, That Daniel was not only a 
 Courtier, like them, but alfo a favou- 
 rite. The Name Courtier belongs to all 
 who have the Honour to attend their 
 Prince \ but the Title favourite implies 
 a peculiar Grace, which is indulged but 
 to a Few, whom their Sovereign is pleas'd 
 to treat more like Friends than Servants, 
 more like Familiars than Subje&s : And 
 yet a Mtnijier founds fomething greater 
 than a Favourite ; One is created in a 
 Moment, the other is fram'd by Degrees 
 out of great Abilities, and a long Expe- 
 rience : One is often the Choice of an 
 unaccountable Affe&ion : the Other, of 
 a deliberate Judgment : One ftudies how 
 to Pfcafe his Prince, the Other how to 
 greaten and to fecure him. And Daniel 
 the Man greatly beloved^ was Favourite 
 and Minifier to at leaft Five Great Em- 
 perors of the World : I fay, at leaft Five^ 
 becaufe, if it were proper to entertain 
 this Auditory with the Perplexities in 
 this Part of Chronology, from the diffe- 
 rent 
 
in the Tear 1685. 61 
 
 — — — <M 
 
 rent Enumerations which are given of 
 the Babylonian Kings , I might reckon 
 more than Five : But in regard the Sa- 
 cred Hiftory mentions no more, I (hall 
 confine my felf to that Number. 
 
 O f thefe Five, Three were Kings of 
 Babylon } which are all intimated by the 
 Prophet Jeremy :, where , fpeaking of j cr . 27; 
 Nebuchadnezzar , he predi&s, that all v. 7* 
 Nations Jhould ferve him, and his Son y 
 and his Sons Son , until the time of his 
 Land come : Where Three only are 
 mentioned :, the Firft of whom is Ne- 
 buchadnezzar , who had a particular 
 Favour for Daniel, above his Three Fel- 
 low Captives , and therefore gave him 
 the mod Honourable Name, Beltefiaz- Dan. 1; 
 zar : A Name which feems appropriate v - 7. 
 to the Royal Family, and is either the 
 fame, or very little different from Bel- chap. 5* 
 Jhazzar, the Name of his Grandchild, v * I2, 
 who afterwards fucceeded in the Em- 
 pire : And that which rendered the Fa- 
 vour much greater, was, that he call'd 
 him Belteftazzar from the Name of his C h ap . 4: 
 God, of his great God Bel : Nay, fo v. 8. 
 fix'd was the Kindnefs the King bare 
 him, that when his Three Friends were 
 thrown into the fiery Furnace, for not 
 falling down^ and worjbippmg the Golden chap. 
 
 Image y m 
 
 V. 20. 
 
6 2 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Image, Darnel, who without all doubt 
 abhorred that Idolatry as well as they, 
 was yet too dear to the King, to run the 
 fame Fate , and he flood exempt from 
 that Fiery Trial , from that Inhuman 
 Condemnation. 
 
 Nor was he only Nebuchadnezzar's 
 
 Favourite, but his Minifler too , for he 
 
 Chap. 2. made him a Great Man, and gave him 
 
 v# 4 *" many great Gifts, and made him Rider 
 
 over the whole Province of Babylon, and 
 
 Chief of the Governors over all the Wife 
 
 Men of Babylon. More than this, at 
 
 Daniel's Requeft, to whom, it feems he 
 
 could deny nothing, he fet his Three 
 
 dear Aflbciates, Shadrach, Mejhach, and 
 
 chap. 2. Abednego y over the Affairs of the Pro- 
 
 v - 49- vince of Babylon. 
 
 Bu t we cannot take the true Height 
 of that Favour , and of that Truft 
 which Daniel had, unlefs we eflimate it 
 from the Greatnefs and Dominion of 
 chap. 4. the King he ferv'd : Greatnefs which 
 v ? 22 - reached unto Heaven , and Dominion 
 which fpread to the End of the Earth. 
 Infomuch that God is (aid, to give him 
 a Kingdom, and Majejly, and Giory, and 
 Honour ^ and for the Majefly God gave 
 him, all People, and Nations, and Lan~ 
 guages } trembled, and fear \l before him± 
 
 whom 
 
in 
 
 the Tear 1685. 6^ 
 
 whom he would he few, and whom he 
 would he kept alive :> whom he would he cha j 
 fet up, and whom he would he put down. 
 Now to be entire Favourite , and Chief 
 Minijler to fo Univerfal a Monarch as 
 this, is certainly to be one of the great- 
 eft Subjects that ever was :, and to this 
 Sublimity of Honour was Daniel ex- 
 alted. 
 
 King Nebuchadnezzar enjoy 'd the 
 Monarchy of the World about Forty 
 Three Years ^ and then left it to his Son 
 Evil-Merodach, not mentioned by Da- 
 niel, poflibly, becaufe the Prophet had 
 no remarkable Vifions during his Reign, 
 as he had during the Reigns of the 
 other Emperors. But whatever the Rea- 
 fon be, of Daniel's Silence in this Par- 
 ticular, he is mentioned in other Places 
 of Holy Writ :, and we may reafonably 
 prefume, that the Son could not eafily 
 forget how mightily Daniel had merited 
 of his Father, and how ufeful and ne- 
 ceflary he was to the Affairs of the Em- 
 pire. And if the Story of Bel and the 
 Dragon^ which our Church reads for 
 Example of Life, and Inftruelion of 
 Manners:, if that Story happened under 
 this Emperor's Reign , as fome good 
 Chronologers attempt to prove, then 
 E Danisl 
 
$4 A Sermon at Whitehall^ 
 
 Daniel ftill kept the feme Pitch of Great- 
 nefs under the Son, as he did under the 
 Father :> for it is there exprefly faid, 
 n That He conversed with the King, and 
 Bell'&thc was honoured above all his Friends. And 
 Dragon, we may probably enough impute that 
 v# 2 ' great Liberty i and that Royal Treat- 
 ment, which the Captive King of 
 icings 2 $. j nc i a ]^ Jehoiachin, then found from 
 Jen $2. Evil-Merodach, to the Power and Inter- 
 2 $- ceflion of Daniel, his Beloved Mini (lev. 
 
 E vi l-M £ r o d a c h having worn 
 the Imperial Crown about Twenty Two 
 Years, Belfiaz^ar fucceeds next:, and 
 Daniel was ftill the fame Great Man un- 
 der the Son , as he had been under the 
 Father, and the Grandfather. For it 
 was Beljhazzar who commanded, That 
 chap. $. Daniel JJjouU be c loathed with Scarlet, 
 Vm 2 >- and a Chain of Gold fjould be put about 
 his Neck and Proclamation made, He 
 fiwuld be the Third Ruler in his King- 
 a(8n y next to himfelf, and, as 'tis mod 
 likely, to his own Son. And he was 
 as much his Minifter^ as his Favourite - y 
 Chap. 8. and is therefore laid, to Rife up, and to 
 v ' 27 - do the Kings Bufinefs. 
 
 B e l s h a z z a r within about Four 
 
 Chap. v. Years difappear'd, and Darius feiz'd the 
 
 > 3i- Kingdom; and tranflated the Empire 
 
 from 
 
in 
 
 the Tea?' 1685. ^5 
 
 from the Babylonians to the McJes. And 
 Daniel ftill fhin'd with the fame Luftre 
 as before j and was by Darius fet over 
 all the Median Princes, and delign'd to 
 be fet over the whole Realm. x\nd how y ^ . ^ 
 greatly beloved he was by his new 
 Matter, you may eafily guefs, by that v - Mi l8 > 
 great Sorrow, and Concern, and Zeal 2 ^ 
 for his Deliverance, the King fhewed, 
 by his refilling all Inftruments of Mu- 
 fick, and his being able to take no Reft, 
 whilft his Beloved Daniel, by an unjuft 
 extorted Sentence, was furrendred to 
 the Lions j by that exceeding Joy he 
 betray'd for his Safety ; and by the Ex- 
 emplary Vengeance he retaliated on his 
 Accufers , making their very Wives and 
 Children fhare in their Deftru&ion. 
 
 Darius having wielded the Impe- 
 rial Scepter Eighteen Years, or there- 
 abouts, Cyrus invaded his Throne, and 
 began a new Monarchy of the Perfians : 
 And Daniel is faid to profper under the . 
 Reign of Cyrus, as well as of Darius. rii fl 
 'And in the Third Year of this Empe- 
 ror's Reign, we are fure that Daniel was cl ia<t 
 alive :, though how long after, we can- 
 not tell : But undoubtedly whilft he li- 
 ved,, he had as great Influence on Cyrus, 
 as he had on the former Emperors \ and 
 E 2 his 
 
 Y< 1, 
 
66 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 his dexterous Application, together with 
 his informing him of thofe Prophecies 
 oflfaiah^ where the Great God of Ifrael 
 had honoured him with the Glorious 
 If*. 44. Appellations of his SJjepherd^ and of his 
 —45. v.i. Anointed y might in all probability be one 
 great Incentive, which God ufed, to ftir 
 up the Spirit of that Infidel Monarch, 
 to make that Aufpicious Proclamation 
 for the Return of the Captivity, and for 
 
 2 d Ch v.°22. the % buildin g of both th e City and 
 Ezra 1. * the Temple. One thing more is very 
 v. i, &c remarkable, that though Daniel was ex- 
 ceeded bv none, in the zealous Love he 
 bore to his own Native Country, and 
 was by no means fond of his Sovereign 
 Greatnefs \ yet we do not read, he ever 
 returned with his Countrymen, but de- 
 ny'd himfelf that Confolation, for his 
 Dear IfraePs fake :, that being his Nati- 
 on's Refident in the Perfan Court^ he 
 might keep his Intereft alive, and be 
 ready on all Occafions to negotiate, and 
 further their Affairs. 
 
 I t is now time to reflect, how rare 
 and difficult it is, for a Perfon of con- 
 fpicuous Eminence, to get a fure Foot- 
 ing in the very Land of his own Nati- 
 vity, where Places, and Cuftoms, and 
 Laws are all familiar and natural to 
 
 him ; 
 
in 
 
 the Tar 1685. ^7 
 
 him \ and where he has fo roanyFrk 
 
 and Relations to aflift and fupport him. 
 But when we contemplate Daniel's 
 Greatnefs, and how impregnable it was, 
 it feemsto be prodigious, efpccially con- 
 (idering the many Disadvantages under 
 which he lay. He was a Captive, and 
 his very Captivity render'd him vile and 
 contemptible*, he was a Stranger, and 
 yet engrofs'd the higheit Honours in a 
 Foreign Country , by which he became 
 obnoxious to a National Envy -, he was 
 a Jew\ one who had an utter Antipa- 
 thy to the Pagan Idolatry, and was the 
 Infidels common Enemy. Now to fee a 
 Captive, a Stranger^ a Jew, both Cour- 
 tier , and Favourite, and Min/fhr, to 
 Five Succeeding Monarchs of the Gen- 
 tiles, in no lefs than Three Univerfal 
 Monarchies , to fee a Jewiih Slave dive 
 into the Counfels, and pleafe the Hu- 
 mours of fo many Imperious Mailers \ 
 To fhift Empires 10 often, and to accom- 
 modate himfelf fo properly, tirlt, to the 
 Babylonian, then to the Median, then 
 to the Perjian Rites, and Maxims, and 
 Interefts, and Dependances 5 in iuch 
 amazing Revolutions, to be tix'd in an 
 Orb above all Clouds, and Storms, and 
 Mutations, in the Region below } when 
 E 2 Fate 
 
68 A Sermon ax Whitehall, 
 
 ni\ 
 
 Fate fell Three feveral Times in Labour 
 of new Empires \ to feel none of thofe 
 Pangs and Convulfions under which all 
 the World belides did groan \ to (land 
 unfhaken , when the Publick fuffered fo 
 many Univerfal Earthquakes , for ^Hebrew 
 Slave to be fogreatlyBelovedandHonoured 
 by fo many Heathen Emperors, for about 
 90 Years together , and in that Time to 
 fee the Ruin and the Refurreclion of his 
 own Native Country :> more than this, 
 to be ordained by propitious Heaven on 
 purpofe, by his Intereft in thofe Empe- 
 rors, to be his Country's Patron in Mi- 
 fery, its Advocate under Oppreflion, its 
 Deliverer out of Captivity, and its Re- 
 ftorer to its priftine Glory ; is certainly 
 to b^ fuch a Courtier , and Favourite, and 
 Minijler, as no Period of Time could 
 ever lhew fuch another ^ and Daniel 
 was aii this, who like an Intelligence, 
 was ever moving his Sphere , and ever 
 immoveable himfelf. 
 
 Thus was Daniel, a Man greatly 
 beloved by Kings ^ and fo he was by the 
 People too : The Hiftory of Sufanna 
 exprefly fays, That from that Day forth ; 
 Daniel was had in great Reputation in 
 the Sight of the People. From that Day 
 forth , which is as much as to fay , that 
 
 lie 
 
in 
 
 the Tear 1685. 69 
 
 he was in Univerfal Efteem, ill the Time 
 he liv'd. For at that Time, when he g 
 Judgment on the Two Elders, lie w is 
 but a young Voutl\ about Twelve Tears 
 old, if fome of the Ancients may be 
 believed \ and the Jcwijh Hiftorian af- 
 firms, that Darnel had that great Hap- 
 pinefs all his Life long, to be honoured, 
 not only by Kings ^ but by the People 
 too - nay, lb conftant and notorious a 
 Favourite he was, both to the Prince^ 
 and to the whole Empire 9 that as Nebu- 
 chadnezzar chans'd his Name from Da- 
 mel to Beltefiazzar , fo the Angel Ga- 
 briel feems to change his Name once 
 more, from Beltefhazzar to the Man 
 greatly Beloved-^ for fo he is there called, 
 Man, greatly beloved. 
 
 But that which crowns all, is this, 
 That when he had ferv'd Three Mighty 
 Monarchies, with Five the- greateft Mo- 
 narches in the World, for fo many Years 
 together, his Death, after a very bufy 
 Life, was mod Pacifick and Honourable ^ 
 and after his Death, his Memory was 
 precious and eternal : He died as great 
 as he lived \ for either he was buried in 
 a mofl Magnificent Tower of his own 
 Building at Ecbatan in Med: a, where 
 the Median^ and ?erfiai\ and Parthian 
 E 4 Kings 
 
 v. 4>. 
 
 v. 19.8c 
 
 23. 
 
70 A Serrnon at Whitehall, 
 
 Kings, were ever after ambitious to be 
 interred j or, as others affirm, he was 
 buried at Babylon in the very Imperial 
 Sepulchre :> the greateft Monarchs 
 efteeming his Neighbourhood in the ve- 
 ry Grave the hjgheft of all Honours, 
 hoping that his Sacred Alhes might hal- 
 low theirs. 
 
 And yet for Daniel to be the Dar- 
 ling of fo many Mighty Kings, and of 
 fo many Mighty Kingdoms, was infi- 
 nitely fnort of that incomparable Felici- 
 ty he had, to be the peculiar Favourite 
 of Heaven:, in which refpeft, he was 
 moft eminently the Man greatly beloved* 
 For if to receive the greateft Favours 
 from God, that mortal Man is capable 
 of receiving , be an Argument of God's 
 Love, then was Daniel beloved, greatly 
 belovd by God. 
 
 It was this Love of God, which made 
 his greatly Beloved Daniel profperous ia 
 Adverfity, that gave him Freedom in 
 Captivity, Friendfhip among Enemies^ 
 Safety among Infidels, Viftory over his 
 Conouerors, and all the Privileges of a 
 Native in ftrange Countries : It was this 
 chap, i. Love of God, that gave his greatly he- 
 v ' * 7 ' lovd^ Knowledge and Skill in all Learn* 
 ing^ and Wifdom, and Underjlanding y in 
 
 all 
 
in the Tear 1685. 7 1 
 
 at Vilions and Dreams. It was this L< 
 of CioJ, that delivered him in Dangers \ 
 hom the Confpiracy and Malice of the chap, & 
 Median Princes, and from the Fury of 2 ** ***** 
 the Lions : That fent one Angel into Hift.of 
 the Den, to flop their Mouths j and a- ? el > y% 5 5, 
 nother Angel at another time, to bring 3 4 ~' 
 Prophet on purpofe to feed him : That 
 fignally revenged him of his Enemies, 
 and did by a Miracle vindicate his Inte- 
 grity. It was the Love of God, that 
 lent the Angel Gabriel to vifit him, to 
 be his Interpreter, to ftrengthen, and 
 comfort, and encourage him ^ to reveal 
 Secrets to him, and to allure him, that chap. 2. 
 his Prayers were heard. It was the *9* 
 Love of God, which gave him the Spi- ~ 9 ! \ 2 \ 
 rit of Prophecy, that Excellent Spirit, — 1< 
 that Spirit of the Holy Gods, as the 
 Babylonians ftil'd it, by which he fore- 
 told the Rife and Period of the Four 
 Monarchies, the Return of the Capti- 
 vity, and wrote long beforehand the Af- 
 fairs of Future Ages. But beyond all —$. 25- 
 this, It was the Love of God that pre- 
 fented him with a clearer Landftip of 
 the Gofpel, than any other Prophet ever 
 had : He was the Beloved Prophet under 
 the Old Difpenfation, as John was the 
 Beloved I)ifdjjk under the Nezv and 
 
 be 
 
 — 1 >, 
 
 if* 
 
 u. 
 
 >*9« 
 
 Chap. 
 
 4- 
 
 9. 18. 
 
 
 — 5- 
 
 ir, 
 
 12 
 
 . M- 
 
 — 10. 
 
 H 
 
7 2 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 both being animated with the fame Di- 
 vine Love, there was a wonderful Har- 
 mony between them : Both of them had 
 miraculous Prefervations, one from the 
 Lions, the other from the boiling Cal- 
 dron , Both engaged young in the Ser- 
 vice of God, and confecrated their Lives 
 by an Early Piety, and Both liv'd to a 
 great and equal Age, to about an Hun- 
 dred Years ^ Both had the like Intimacy 
 with God, the like Admittance into the 
 moft Adorable Myfteries , and the like 
 Abundance of Heavenly Vifions , Both 
 had the like Lofty Flights, and Ecftatic 
 chap. 7 . Revelations : Read what Daniel faw, of 
 v - 9> i®- the Ancient of Daj/s, and of his Throne , 
 and of the Angels his Attendants , and 
 you muft needs fay, that his Vifions in 
 this Life were next to Beatific* His 
 chap, 9. Prophecies of the Meffias, of the pre- 
 23. &c cifeTime of his coming, and of his cut- 
 *7$J-J* ting off ^ of the Deftruftion of Jerufa- 
 lern, and of Antichrift :, Of the Son of 
 Man, and of the Univerfality and Per- 
 petuity of his Kingdom , the Church 
 Catholick j Of the Day of Judgment, 
 of the Refurre&ion, of Heaven, and of 
 Hell :, were fo literally fulfilled in the 
 Gofpel, and fo legible there, and all his 
 Predi&ions fo exprefs, and full, and par- 
 
 ticular. 
 
 *~I2. I, 
 
in 
 
 the Tear 1685. 73 
 
 ticular, that for this very Reafon, his 
 Writings were queftionM by both the 
 Gentiles and the Jews } becaufe they 
 look'd more like the Hiftory of Things 
 paft , than a Prophecy of Things to 
 come. But the Jews own Hiftorian e- 
 fteem'd Daniel one of the greateft Pro- 
 phets, for the fame Reafon for which o- 
 thers unjuftly reproach him. The 
 Mouth of Truth, our Bleffed Saviour, 
 has declared Daniel a Prophet * 5 and the Matth.24. 
 greater Clearnefs his Prophecies have, IS * 
 the more likely they are to be wrote by 
 Daniel^ who the more greatly he was 
 Beloved, the greater were the Communi- 
 cations of Divine Love to him, and the 
 greater by confequence were his Illumi- 
 nations. 
 
 All thefe wonderful Vouchfafe- 
 ments from Above to Daniel , though 
 they were molt Illuftrious Demonftrati- 
 ons that he was greatly Beloved, yet they 
 were indulged him for the fake of others, 
 as well as for his own : There is there- 
 fore one more Illuftrious than all thefe, 
 and that is a Favour which God beftows 
 on but very few, and on none but great 
 Saints, who are greatly beloved ^ and 
 not ufually on them , till near their 
 Deaths and is the very Top Bleffing of 
 
 which 
 
74- A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 which Man is capable in this Life, the 
 higheft Blifs on this fide Heaven \ and 
 that is, an Abfolute AlTurance of a Glo- 
 rious Immortality •, and fuch an Aflli- 
 ranee as this, h*d the Beloved Daniel : 
 For the Angel having difcours'd to him 
 of the Refurre&ion of thofe that Jleep in 
 chap- 12. the Duft, and of their awaking to ever- 
 2 - J 3- lafling Life \ adds , Go thy way till the 
 End he : For thou ft alt refl y and ftand 
 in the Lot at the End of the Days. O 
 the unutterable Felicity of This Man, 
 thus greatly Beloved by God ! whilft the 
 Generality of Saints figh under their 
 Flefh and Blood, which clogs, and loads 
 and depreifes them :, whilft the Penitent 
 are ftill begging their Pardon, and the 
 Humble full of Fears and Mifgivings, 
 by reafon of their numerous Failings ^ 
 whilft the Beft of them all fee Heaven 
 only through a Glals darkly, and at a 
 diftance, and can reach no higher in this 
 World, than Hope, and Defire, and Re- 
 liance on God's Promife, and patient 
 Expe&ation ^ Daniel , the Man greatly 
 Beloved, has an Angel fent on purpofe 
 by God, to affile him of his Lot in a 
 Glorious Eternity, and that his Manfion 
 there was prepar'd and brightened to re- 
 ceive him : And yet this is not a>ll-, Da- 
 niel 
 
in the Tear 1685. 75 
 
 niel was not only ailurM of Future Glo- 
 ry, but of a greater Degree of Glory 
 than others had : For having made it his 
 Great Bufinefs here below to love God 
 himfclf, and Greatly to love him, and to 
 excite others to love God as Greatly as 
 he lov'd him, he was to have a more 
 fublimc Exaltation in Blifs than ordina- 
 ry ; the Greater his Love was, the near- 
 er was he to be feated to the Throne of 
 God his Beloved i and having turn d ma- chap, 12, 
 ny to Righteoufnefs, he was to jhine as S* 
 
 the Stars for ever and ever. 
 
 If ever then there was a Happy Man 
 on Earth, Daniel was the Man ^ who li- 
 ved Beloved, Greatly Beloved by Five 
 Mighty Monarchs :, Greatly Beloved by 
 his own People , Greatly Beloved by- 
 Three Foreign Nations ^ and Greatly 
 Beloved by God , and after a Long, a 
 Happy , an Honourable Life , died a 
 Peaceable and Lamented Death, with 
 full Aflurance of God's Favour, was bu- 
 ried in the Royal Sepulchre, and left an 
 Immortal, Blefled Memory behind him 
 in the World , and afcended to Glory, 
 to a fuperlative Degree of Glory in the 
 Kingdom of Heaven. Who is there 
 that does not above all things defire to 
 live and dye like this Man, Greatly Be- 
 loved $ 
 
7 6 
 
 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 loved ? Who is there that is not impa- 
 tient to know the peculiar Maxims by 
 which Daniel conduced his Life, and 
 by which he became fo univerfally, fo 
 Greatly Beloved by God and Man > 
 
 I F then you would learn Daniel's Se- 
 cret , that powerful Inflammative and 
 Prefervative of Love, which Daniel had, 
 and which made him, according to the 
 Text, underftood in a Paflive Senfe, a 
 Man Greatly Beloved ; Take the very 
 fame Expreflion in an Aftive Senfc, and 
 then you have it :, he did Greatly Love y 
 and therefore he was Greatly Beloved : 
 That was all the Court-Cunning, all the 
 Philtre that Daniel had. It is Love that 
 mod naturally attracts Love ; and from 
 this Love he is called, a Man of De- 
 fires \ of Defires for the Glory of God, 
 and for the Welfare of King and Peo- 
 ple : Still I am Ihort :> he was a Man 
 Full of Defires ^ fo full , that he was 
 made up of Defires , he was all Defires ^ 
 for fo the Original emphatically ftiles 
 Chap. f. liliri, Thou art Defires. 
 
 But to defcend to Particulars :, it is 
 very obfervable, that the Preparation he 
 had for a Court Life was Affli&ion : 
 He had from his Childhood a great 
 Share in the Calamity of his Countrey^ 
 
 and 
 
 ft 23 
 
in the Tear 1685. 77 
 
 and in the Firft Year of Webuchadnex- ^ a r- 
 %4P t and the Third of Jehoiakhn, a- v ' u 
 bout Eighteen Years before the Deftru- 
 dion of the City and Temple under Ze- 
 dek'nis, and the Total Captivity of Ju+ 
 dah began, he was carried Captive into 
 Babylon, as another Jofeph fent afore by 
 God to be the Father of his Countrey : 
 And Captivity was the more infupporta- 
 ble to him, being a Frince, of a Great 
 Spirit, and born to Command 5 and to 
 fee himfelf a Slave to an Infultins Infi- 
 del, muft needs be one of the moft out- 
 ragious Affliftions that could poflibly be- 
 fal him. But it is an ufual Method with 
 God to lay the Foundation of a great 
 Sanftity in Affli&ion : Atfli&ion, which 
 made lading Impreflions of his Depen- 
 dance on God, and kindled a fervent 
 Devotion , which melted him into a 
 companionate Chanty, and fank him in- 
 to a profound Humility : Atflidion , 
 which taught him betimes Refignation to 
 the Divine Will , the Vanity of the 
 World, and the Uncertainty of Great- 
 nefs j that happily prevented the Af- 
 laults of Youthful Lull, and by the Ex- 
 perience he felt of gracious Supports, 
 and endearing Confolations , charm'd 
 him to make God his Firft and Only 
 Love. Thus 
 
78 A Sermon at Whitehall 
 
 Thus prepared by God'6 Paternal 
 Lam.3.27. Care, accuftom'd to the Yoke from his 
 Youth, and arm'd againft all the Ghoft- 
 ly Dangers he was to encounter , he 
 comes in a very Tender Age, as all ge- 
 nerally affirm, to the Babylonian Court 
 and being entirely prepoifefs'd with the 
 Love of God, never any Young Noble 
 Perfon enter'd a Court with a Nobler 
 Refolution than did Young Daniel , and 
 that was, to live in the King's Palace an 
 Afcetick and a Saint ^ is well as a Cour- 
 tier^ and never wilfully to offend God, 
 his Greatly Beloved. This made him 
 Chap. 1. purpose in his hearty that he would not 
 defile himfelf with the Portion of the 
 Kings Meat, nor with the Wine that he 
 drank : Left he fhould either eat Meats 
 forbidden by the Law, or confecrated 
 to the Idol Bel, or be tempted to Ex- 
 cefs. And 'tis incredible to think, how 
 fuch an Abftinence as this , ( which the 
 Church now recommends to our Pra- 
 ctice ) did naturally fit him for his Se- 
 cular Employment: Since our common 
 Obfervation teaches us , that nothing 
 more clouds our \J nderftandings , and 
 indifpofes us for Bufinefs :, nothing does 
 more debafe a Great Man, or makes a 
 Wife Man look more like a Fool, or 
 
 more 
 
 3 
 
 V. &. 
 
in the Tear 1685. 79 
 
 more expofes them to the Mockery and 
 Contempt of the meaneft of their Ser- 
 vants, or fupplies more Fuel to Brutiih 
 and wandring Senfuality, or more cer- 
 tainly dilapidates their, Eftates , or is 
 more dcftru&ive to their Health, than 
 the Surfeits of Intemperance ^ which. 
 Abftinence docs either prevent, or cor- 
 real. 
 
 Abstinence, the beft Defenfative 
 a Chriftian can have : Abftinence , that 
 prefer vM Young Daniel fife , amidil Al- 
 lurements more formidable than the 
 rav'ning Lyons in their Den \ and tho' 
 he was very Young and very Beautiful 
 withal, tit to be both Tempter and Tern- ciup. 
 ptatioti; tho this Young Beautiful Prince * 
 liv'd in the greateft Favour and Honour, 
 Affluence and Authority , in Three the 
 moft Luxurious Courts in the whole 
 World j yet he liv'd untainted, he liv'd 
 always in the fiery Furnace, and not fo 
 much as the Smell of Fire pafs'd on him, __?. a 
 but he ftili kept his Virgin Love for 
 God, his Greatly Beloved. So certain it 
 is, that nothing more conduces to the 
 Health and Vivacity, and Purity, both 
 of Mind and Body, than to feed now 
 and then ( efpecially at fuch a folemn 
 Time as this ) on Pulfc, like Daniel ; 
 F Id 
 
80 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 - - ■■■ 
 
 to become ( for a few Weeks ) Afce- 
 ticks, like him. Make but the Trial, 
 and you will wonder to find, how much 
 an Abftinence like this, preferves the 
 whole Man entire for God, and difpos'd 
 for all the Offices of Divine Love. 
 
 Next to Daniel's Temperance as an 
 Afcetick , confider his Devotion as a 
 Saint; Devotion, which was the Oyl 
 that kept the Lamp burning, andfecur'd 
 all his other Graces. Befides the conti- 
 nual Ejaculations which Divine Love 
 was always Infpiring, and he always 
 breathing , amidft all the Multiplicity 
 of State- Affairs, he never made Bufinels 
 a Difpenfation from God's Service, he 
 chap. 6. retir'd into his Chamber Three Times a 
 10,13. Day, for folemn Prayer: Love made 
 him zealous to converfe with his Belo- 
 ved, and Love made God Greatly com- 
 municative to his Friend 1 When he was 
 in any great Perplexity, Prayer was his 
 Refuge, and God his Counfellor : He 
 inftantly withdrew into his Oratory, to 
 dejlre Mercies of the God of Heaven, con- 
 cerning the Secret ; and when his Pray- 
 ers were heard, he took as much Care to 
 Tol'29. ' give God Thanks, as he had done to 
 Pray :, he afcrib'd all to God, and no- 
 thing to himfelf, and bleffed the God of 
 Heaven. Noa 
 
in 
 
 the Tear 1685. 8 
 
 Nor were his Prayers continM to 
 his own Perfon, but he interceded with 
 God for his own People alfo : He be- 
 waii'd their Miferies , and their Sins 
 which occafion'd them j implor'd their 
 Pardon and Deliverance \ and he pray'd 
 for them with great Intenfcncfs, and af- 
 fectionate Fervency j he fet his Face to ch.*v.ii 
 feek God for them by Bfayet and Supplica- 4, &c. 
 tion, and with the fame Concern with 
 which he prayed for himfelf. More 
 than this, his Charity extended to the 
 Babylonians too , to Enemies and Unbe- 
 lievers j and he prays, That their Wife cb . 2 . 
 Men, who were devoted to Deftruftion, v. i8j 
 might not perifh. 
 
 And that you may be convine'd, 
 how pertinent the Example of Daniel 
 the Jfcetick, is, to teach us to fpend this 
 Holy Seafon devoutly, to enforce all his 
 Prayers and Supplications , he added 
 Fafling^ and Sackcloth, and Afhes ^ and 
 that Fa fling was accompany'd with Alms 
 too, confonant to his own Exhortation ch 
 to Nebuchadnezzar^ to break off his v. $71 
 Sins by Righteoufncfs, and his Iniquities 
 by (hewing Mercy to the poor : Nay, 
 we have him continuing his Faft and 
 Mourning three whole Weeks together : . 
 during which Time, he eat no plea f ant v , ^ ' 
 F 2 Bread* 
 
8 2 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Bread, neither came Tlefo or Wine into 
 his Month ; neither did he anoint himself 
 at all y till three whole Weeks were ful- 
 filled. Nothing is more plain than this, 
 that Daniel did not think the bare ab- 
 staining from Flefli to be Fading, when 
 in the mean time we indulge our felves 
 in all the moft palatable Wines, all the 
 Delicacies of Fifh, and all the Luxury 
 of Banquets. This is a licentious Noti- 
 on, which rofe by the Decay of Chri- 
 ftiait Piety. When he fafted, his Diet 
 was Afflicting, and fuch as became a 
 Mourner 5 not to humour, but to cha- 
 ftize Nature^ not to pamper his Appe- 
 tite, but merely to appeafe it. The An- 
 cient Chriftians knew no (uch Diftin&i- 
 on between Fifh and Flefli j their hen- 
 ten-hrt was Bread, and Water, and Salt; 
 znd their firffc Meal on Fading Days, 
 was not till the Evening. 
 
 I Mention this Example, to Ihew 
 you what the Ancients thought Fading, 
 and how they kept Lent : 1 do not ex- 
 hort you to follow them any further, 
 than either our Climate, and our Con- 
 futations will bear , but we may eafily 
 follow iJaniel, in abftaining from Wine, 
 and from the more pleafurable Meats j 
 and fuch an Abftinencc as this, with 
 
 fuch 
 
in the Teir 1685. ^3 
 
 fuch a Mourning for our own Sins, and 
 the Sins of others , is the proper Exer- 
 tife of a Primitive Spirit, during all the 
 Weeks of Lent. 
 
 For. what is Lent y in its Original 
 Inftitution, but a Spiritual Conflict, to 
 fubdue the Flefh to the Spirit, to beat 
 down our Bodies, and to bring them in- 
 to Subjection > What is it, but a Peni- 
 tential Martyrdom for \o many Weeks 
 together, which we fufier for our own, 
 and others Sins ) A Devout Soul, that 
 is able duly to obferve it, faftens himfelf 
 to the Crofs on AJhvpednefday^ and hangs 
 crucify 'd by Contrition all the Lent 
 long j that having felt in his Clofet, the 
 Burthen and the Anguiih, the Nails and 
 the Thorns , and tafted the Gall of his 
 own Sins, he may by his own Crucifixi- 
 on , be better difpos'd to be crucify'd 
 with Chrift on Good-Friday ', and moft 
 tenderly to fympathize with all the Do- 
 lours, and Preffures, and Anguiih, and 
 Torments, and Defertion, Infinite, Un- 
 known, and Unfpeakable, which God 
 Incarnate endured, when he bled upon 
 the Crofs for the Sins of the World , 
 that being purify'd by Repentance, and 
 made conformable to Chrift Crucify'd, pm. 3, 
 he may offer up a pure Oblation at 
 F 3 EajltVy 
 
84 A Sermon ax Whitehall, 
 
 Eafter, and feel the Power, and the 
 Joys, and the Triumph of his Saviour's 
 Refurre&ion. And to encourage you to 
 fuch a Devotion, thus enforced with 
 Fading, and Mourning, and Alms, as 
 was this of Daniel ^ reflect on the won- 
 derful Succefs he found j for when he 
 began his Supplications, the Angel Ga- 
 briel was fent to him by God , and arri- 
 ved before he had ended them j and by 
 that Heavenly Meffenger, God then ho- 
 noured him with that Glorious Prophecy 
 ch , 9 , of the Seventy Weeks : And the Pro- 
 v. 21, 22. phet Ezehel joins Daniel with Noah and 
 Sul I4# J°^-> as ^ ie Three greateft Inftances of 
 Prevalence with God, that ever pray'd. 
 You have feen, how Daniel ferv'd 
 his God $ and you are next to fee, how 
 he ferv'd his Prince, I may add, the 
 People too j for the Prince and the Peo- 
 ple have but one common Intereft, which 
 is the Publick Profperity j and none can 
 ferve the Prince well , but he does ferve 
 the People too : And Daniel ferv'd his 
 Prince, and not himfelf , the Love of 
 God had given him an utter Contempt 
 of the World* And this made him de- 
 ch - *• fpife Belfhaz&ar's Prefents, Thy Gifts be 
 to thy felf\ and give thy Rewards to ano- 
 ther ^ to Ihew, that it was a Cordial 
 
 ZeaJ 
 
 u- 
 
in 
 
 the Tear 1685. 85 
 
 Zeal for the King, and not Self-Intereft, 
 that inclined him to his Service. This 
 was evident in all his Miniftry, info- 
 much, that when the Median Prefidents, 
 and Princes, combined in his Deftru&i- 
 on, he had fo induftrioufly done the 
 King's Bufinefs, was fo remarkably Righ- ff 2 f 
 teow a Perfon, fo faithful in the Dif- Ezek. 14. 
 charge of his Duty , both to King and v * I4 ' 
 People, fo beneficial to all, and offenfive 
 to none, fo remote from all Flattery, fo 
 Couragious, on juft and lit Occasions, in 
 warning his Great Mailers of their —4.2$, 
 Dangers, and minding them of their 2 > 
 Duty \ he had fo univerfal a Benignity f^ 2? ' 
 to all, fo iincerely fought the Good cf 
 Babylon, was fo forward to refcue an Jer - 2 ?- 7« 
 injur'd Innocence, as he did Sufanna :, 
 fo tender of Men's Lives, that he was _ 2# I?j 
 never at reft, till he fav'd all the Wife 24, 49/ 
 Men of Babylon , when the Decree was 
 gone out for their Maflacre ^ fo careful 
 of their Peace and Profperity, that he 
 fat in the Gate of the King, to hear eve- 
 ry Man's Caufe, and with great Patience 
 and Afliduity to do Juftice to all: He 
 had behav'd himfelf fo irreproachably, 
 that they could find no Occafwn, nor 
 Fault in him, concerning the Kingdom \ &f 
 forafmuch as he was faithful, neither 
 F 4 xvas 
 
86 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 was there any Error , or Faulty found in. 
 him. 
 
 For this Reafon, when no Accufa- 
 tion, no Slander, could flick on him 
 from the Law of the Land, the Confpi- 
 rators refolve to take Advantage againft 
 him from the Law of his God:, and put 
 Barkis upon making that impious Decree, 
 - v -7- That whoever jhoitld ask any Petition of 
 God^ or Man, for Thirty Days together y 
 fave of the King , (honld be caf into the 
 Ben of Lions. It was a Decree, which 
 was one of the greatefl Pieces of Flat- 
 tery imaginable : Nothing could better 
 pleafe a proud Infidel King, than to be 
 Deify 'd. It was the moll opportune 
 Device in the World, to try whether 
 the Babylonians would pay an entire 
 Obedience to their new Median Empe- 
 ror: It was a Kind of Idolatry, the 
 moil plaufible that could be invented. 
 To worfhip an Idol, fuch as Bel^ or fuch 
 as J$ebuchadne { zz>ars Golden Image was, 
 that had been a Teft too grofs :> and a 
 Man may much more rationally wor- 
 ship himfelf, than a Creature of his own 
 making. To worfhip an Animal, that 
 had Motion and Strength, fuch as the 
 Dragon, was better than to worfhip a 
 lifelefs Trunk; yet this had been to 
 
 ft* 
 
in 
 
 the Tear 1685. 87 
 
 fink the Worfhipper infinitely below 
 the Beaft he worfhipp'd : But to wor- 
 ship a King, that is much more defenfible ^ 
 the very Statues of Kings have been 
 venerated, even by Chriftians, and met 
 with folemn Proceflions, and plac'd in 
 their very Temples ^ infomuch, that 
 from the Honour there paid to the Ima- 
 ges of Emperors, an Analoglical Infe- 
 rence was afterwards made, for the in- 
 troducing of the Images of Saints and 
 Martyrs into Churches. But to worfhip 
 the King himfelf, feems much more al- 
 lowable, efpecially fuch a King, the 
 greateft Monarch on Earth, who has 
 Power of Life and Death , who in Do- 
 minion, in Rewards and Punifhments, 
 was the livelieft Image of God in the 
 World ^ who was able to hear and grant 
 the Petitions there offer'd him : If any 
 Idolatry can be excufable or venial, it is 
 certainly this. And nothing could ever 
 be thought on, fo enfnaring to Daniel^ 
 as this Projed of the Median Princes. 
 Not to worftiip the King, had been to 
 fhew him a Perfonal Difhonour :, and it 
 was grievous for Daniel perfonally to af- 
 front Darius, who had been fo Gracious, 
 and indulgent a Matter to him. Not to 
 pray to God for Thirty Days together, 
 
 • and 
 
88 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 and yet to pray to the King in his ftead> 
 had been all the while to renounce God, 
 and to exalt a Creature into his Throne , 
 On the one Hand, the Den and the Li- 
 ons threaten him:, on the other, the 
 Bottomlefs Pit, and the Damn'd Spirits. 
 I N this Streight in which Daniel was, 
 Could no Expedient be found ? What if 
 lie had worshipped the King, that Wor- 
 fhip might be interpreted Allegiance, ra- 
 ther than Idolatry j or it was only wor- 
 (hipping God in the King, that repre- 
 fented him, or he might for Thirty 
 Days together, petitioned the King to 
 repeal his ungodly Decree , and to wor- 
 imp the true God \ and all the time, fe- 
 cretly, and in a Corner, or mentally, 
 he might have worlhipp'd God j any 
 one of thefe Expedients had reconcil'd 
 all, had gratify 'd the King, fecured Da- 
 niel, and defeated all his Enemies, But 
 Daniel knew none of thefe Salvo's, none 
 of thefe Referves and Evafions :, he durfl 
 not denv God, and fcandalize all sood 
 People, by giving that Divine Worfliip 
 to the King, which was due only to 
 God : Religion was his tendereft Care, 
 and he had hitherto kept it inviolable ^ 
 and would never communicate with ei- 
 ther the Babylonian^ or the Median, or 
 
 the 
 
in 
 
 the Tear 1685, 89 
 
 the Ferjian Idolatries. A great Love 
 made him greatly zealous for God his 
 Beloved } and the more publickly God 
 was difhonoured, the more publickly 
 Daniel refolved to own him \ and prayd 
 three times a day in his Chamber^ on his 
 Knees^ more confpicuoufly than ever, 
 with his Windows ope?i towards "Jerusa- 
 lem \ not for Oftentation, but Example. 
 When his Duty to God, and Obedience 
 to his King, flood in Competition, tho* 
 it was an inexprefiible Grief to the good 
 Man, that ever there fhould be fuch a 
 Competition, he obeyed God, and pati- 
 ently fufFer'd the King's Difpleafure , in 
 being caft into the Lions Den, from 
 whence God did miraculoufly deliver 
 him \ and even the King himfelf, by 
 congratulating his Deliverance , and de- 
 ftroying his Enemies, fhew'd afterwards, 
 that he lov'd Daniel the better, for lo- 
 ving his God better than his King \ T for 
 fagacious Princes bed meafure the Fide- 
 lity of their Subje&s, from their Since- 
 rity to God, 
 
 I am well aware,that after all this,fomc 
 will fay that Daniel had a Supernatural 
 Gift of Prophecy, and of Interpreting 
 Dreams, which rendered him greatly be- 
 lovd^ and made him a Pattern too high 
 
 for 
 
 Ch. 6. 
 v. 10. 
 

 qo A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 ■4«* 
 
 for the Imitation of ordinary Perfons. 
 Tis true, Daniel was a Prophet, and 
 infpir'd, and peculiarly honour'd on that 
 Account ^ nay more, ador'd too, and 
 
 ch. 2. that by proud Nebuchadnezzar himfelf : 
 Though his being a Saint was more for- 
 cible to make him greatly beloved, than 
 his being a Prophet. But the feveral 
 Kings, that made him their Minifter, 
 considered him more as a Statefman, than 
 a Prophet ; His Infpirations were oc- 
 cafional, now and then} his Political 
 Abilities, conftant and habitual : And it 
 was from the Experience of thofe Abili- 
 ties, that he was intrufted with the Pub- 
 lick Affairs. Nor is it neceffary, or 
 ufual, that Prophets ihould be Politick 
 ans ^ they commonly are fitter for a Cell, 
 than a Court :, for Contemplation, rather 
 than an Active Life. 
 
 Besides, there are Two Sorts of Di- 
 vination, one Sacred and Infpir'd, the 
 other Natural and Political :, the former 
 might now and then, while he was ufe- 
 ful, make him a Favourite ^ the latter 
 made him always a Minijier : And in 
 this latter, Daniel excell'd, as much as 
 in the former :, infomuch, that his Wif- 
 dom became proverbial, Behold, thou art 
 
 y. 3?' wifer than Daniel. It is this Kind of Di- 
 vination, 
 
 Ezek. 28. 
 
in the Tear 1685. 91 
 
 vination , which is common to all Wife 
 Men} and was probably the Genius 
 which accompany'd Socrates : It was 
 by this Kind of Divination, that Daniel 
 gave fafe Counfels, forefaw Conferen- 
 ces, and, to the utmoft of his Reach, 
 left nothing to Chance : It was fuch 
 Divination, fuch Sagacity as this, which 
 interpreted to him all the Dreams of 
 Human Life, the Vanities of the proud- 
 eft Wight , the Follies of the Ihrewdeft 
 Contrivances, and the Uncertainties of 
 all Worldly Succefs } and therefore 
 taught him, greatly to adore that All- 
 wife Almighty Providence, which holds 
 the Helm of the World \ to implore the 
 Protection of him , who rules in the 
 Kingdom of Men y and gives it to whom- chf 4- 
 foever he will', and greatly to love his 
 moft gracious Conduct in all his Difpo- 
 fals, which when all is done, is our on- 
 ly true Wifdom. 
 
 Y o v have now feen Daniel^ one 
 Royally delcended, an Inftance of the 
 greateft, both Courtier^ and Favourite^ 
 and Minifies that ever was , who was 
 all Three, to no lefs than Five Monarchs, 
 and in Three feveral Monarchies of the 
 World :> One that kept his Station in the 
 greateft Revolutions that ever were, len- 
 der 
 
9? A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 der all tlie Difadvantages imaginable, of 
 Captive, and Stranger, and Jew, for 
 about Ninety Years together ^ One who 
 to all his other Chara&ers, added that 
 of the Afceticky and the Saint : All 
 which made him greatly belovd, greatly 
 belovd by God, at whofe Glory he ever 
 aim'd \ greatly belovd by all thofe 
 Kings , whom he faithfully ferv'd } 
 greatly belovd by the People, whofe 
 Good he ftudied. You have feen, how 
 Love was reciprocal, how Daniel greatly 
 lovd God, the King, and the People : 
 And this was the Secret he had , which 
 naturally attra&ed fo Univerfal a Love. 
 A Secret, that is neither too myfterious 
 for your Compreheniion, nor too He- 
 roick for your Imitation : A Secret of a 
 certain and approved Virtue. For Good- 
 nefs is Awful and Amiable to all Man- 
 kind, and has Charms that are irrefiftible. 
 There is a powerful Sweetnefs, a pro- 
 pitious Obligingnefs, fuch Effufions and 
 Irradiations of Divinity in it, which 
 commands our Affections, and are able 
 to overcome all our Averfions 3 and I 
 am confident, that there is no one here, 
 but if he would make the Experiment, 
 Vould find a proportionable Succefs. 
 
 Let 
 
in the Tear 1685. 93 
 
 Let me then exhort, let me befeech 
 you, to confider all the Attra&ives of 
 the Divine Love y till God's Sovereign 
 Love inflame you, and you habitually 
 breathe his Praifes. Learn like Daniel, 
 Humility by x\ffli&ion, Purity by Tem- 
 perance •, to keep your Graces alive by 
 Prayer, and frequenting your Oratory ^ 
 to fubdue Rebellious Nature, by Falling 
 and Mortifications. Learn from Darnel, 
 a Univerfal Obligingnefs and Benignity, 
 an awful Love to your Prince, a con- 
 ftant Fidelity, an undaunted Courage, 
 an unwearied Zeal in ferving him. 
 Learn from Daniel, an equal Mixture 
 of the Wifdom of the Serpent, and of 
 the Innocence of the Dove, an inoffen- 
 sive Converfation, a clean Integrity, and 
 an impartial Juflice to all within your 
 Sphere. 
 
 Learn from the Man greatly belo- 
 ved^ to reconcile Policy and Religion, 
 Bufinefs and Devotion, Abftinence and 
 Abundance, Greatnefs and Goodnefs, 
 Magnanimity and Humility, Power and 
 Subjection, Authority and Affability, 
 Converfation and Retirement, Intereft 
 and Integrity, Heaven and the Court, 
 the Favour of God , and the Favour of 
 the King, and you are Mailers of La- 
 
 niel's 
 
94 A Sermon at Whitehall 
 
 titers Secret ^ you will fecure your felves 
 an univerfal and lafting Intereft } you 
 will like him, be greatly belov'd, both 
 by God and Man. 
 
 For when we have in vain try'd all 
 other Methods, there is nothing ftable 
 but Virtue-, nothing that can keep us 
 fteddy in all Revolutions, but the Love 
 of God , and when the Worldly Wife 
 Men, and the Mighty, fall by their 
 own Weaknefs,or moulder by the Decays 
 of Time, or wear out of Fafhion, or 
 are overwhelm^ by a Deluge of Envy , 
 or are blown away by the Breath of 
 God's Difpleafure, or when the World, 
 of its own accord, frowns and forfakes 
 them, and their Name and Memory pe- 
 rifh 5 the Man that loves God is ftill the 
 fame, God whom he loves is ftill the 
 fame, with him is no Variableness , not 
 Shadow of turning \ his Incentives are 
 ftill the fame, Infinite Philanthropy, 
 Loving-kindnefs and Amiablenefs } his 
 End is ftill the fame, the Glory of his 
 Beloved^ his Duty is ftill the fame, and 
 has a Goodnefs Effential and Unchan- 
 geable j his Retreat to a peaceful Con- 
 fcicnce, is ftill the fame - his Afliftances 
 have ftill the fame fweet Force } his 
 Ambition, the fame Heavenly Profpeft, 
 
 his 
 
in 
 
 the Tear 1685. 95 
 
 his Defigns, and Affections, and Refolu- 
 tions, have dill the fame Center:, his 
 Will is in the Difpof al of the fame gra- 
 cious Providence:, his very Afflictions 
 meet in the fame Point with his Prospe- 
 rity, and both work together for his 
 Good. Search now , and fee, if over 
 the whole Univerfe, you can find a 
 Place of Reft, a fteddy Happinefs, in 
 any thing, but in the Love of God, and 
 you will return with Solomons Account, 
 All here below is Vanity and Vexation of 
 Spirit. For this World is founded upon 
 the Seas , and eftablifh'd on the Floods, 
 the very Foundation of it is laid in Mu- 
 tability. But he that loves God, and 
 trails in his Beloved; is like Mount Sion 
 that cannot be removed , but (lands fad p^ 2 f* 4 ' 
 for ever j he is built on the Rock of 2 . 
 Ages, he ftands firm on a Height , that 
 has no Precipice, and is above all Af- 
 faults, and is in Eternal Security. For 
 what, or who, (hall feparate a refolute 
 Lover, from the Love of Chrift:, fhall 
 Tribulation, or Diflrefs, or Perfecution, 
 &c. > 
 
 But alas, when we frail Creatures * 
 
 have done all we can , 'tis impofiible for 
 
 us to love God fo as he is worthy to be 
 
 beloved, fo as to fatisfy our felves we 
 
 G love 
 
96 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 love him enough. No Holy Perfon can 
 love God to that Degree , but he paffio- 
 nately defires to love him much more } 
 and through the unavoidable Weaknefs 
 of laps'd Nature, the befl: of Men do 
 often fail in their Duty, and are reduced 
 to bare Defires only. Love no fooner 
 begins to offer up a Sacrifice to our Be- 
 loved, but the Fire is apt to go out \ and 
 nothing many times, but the dying Em- 
 bers of languid Defires remain on the 
 Altar. And this is fuitable to the 
 Name the Angel gives to Daniel, when 
 he fliles him, a Man of Defires : It is 
 the proper Defcription of a good Man 
 here on Earth, that he is a Man of De- 
 fires. For this World is the Region of 
 Want , and confequently of Defires : 
 And happy is the Man, who being firft 
 greatly behvd by God, to his Power, 
 loves God again : and out of that Mo- 
 tive of Divine Love, earneftly defires, 
 like Daniel, to oblige, and help, and 
 relieve, and ferve, and pray for, all 
 Mankind, as bearing the Image of his 
 Beloved^ but above all, to have a Reve- 
 rential and Zealous Luve for his Prince, 
 who more immediately reprefents, and 
 refeuibles, God his Beloved* 
 
 O may 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. 
 
 97 
 
 O may every Soul here prefent , live 
 and dye this happy Lover, thus greatly 
 belov'd by Men, if it be the Divine 
 Will} but above all, thus greatly be- 
 lov'd by God j to whom with the Son, 
 and Holy Spirit, be Glory ' <SCc. 
 
 G2 A SERMON 
 
99 
 
 SERMON 
 
 PREACH'D upon 
 
 Pajfion •> Sunday* 
 
 tmmmm — — mm— — m— — i i — — — — — m— >■«— I 
 
 MIC AH VII. 8,9. 
 
 Rejoice not again/l me, mine Ene<> 
 my ; when I fall, I /hall rije • 
 <wben I fit in 'Darknefs , the 
 Lord /hall he a Light unto me. 
 
 I will hear the Indignation of the 
 Lord, hecaufe I have finned a- 
 gainfl him, until he plead my 
 Cauje, and execute Judgment for 
 me : He will bring me forth to 
 the Light, and I /hall behold his 
 Right eoufnefs. 
 
 gQr<$i£J£ Very one that hears this 
 5Te #1 Paflage °f Scripture, Will 
 fe-L. ,^=4 foon perceive what the Pro- 
 z^Wlm phet intends, namely, a Re- 
 prefentation of the Church of Judah 
 G 3 undet 
 
ioo A Sermon ax Whitehall, 
 
 under the Babylomjb Captivity \ I fay, 
 of Judah :, for though the Prophet pro- 
 phefied of Samaria as well as of Jerusa- 
 lem, Chap. i. i. yet from the 9th Verfe 
 of the 3d Chapter, to the End of the 
 Prophecy, he undoubtedly fpeaks of the 
 latter :, as appears from the Series of the 
 Prophecy its felf, which we have no 
 Reafon to disjoint :, and from the feve- 
 ral Predictions here fcatter'd of Delive- 
 rance and Reftoration, which were ne- 
 ver literally fulfill'd in the Ten Tribes, 
 who were never reftor'd :> but only in 
 Judah, to whom God had promised a 
 Reftoration. 
 
 I t was then the Church of Judah, 
 of whom, and to whom, the Prophet 
 fpake i and more than that, it was to 
 the Reformed Church of Judah. For 
 though. Micah prophefied in the Days 
 of Jotham and Ahaz>, as well as of He- 
 %ehah \ yet this latter Part of the Pro- 
 phecy was utter'd in the Days of King 
 He^ekiah, as we learn from the Prophet 
 Jeremy, who makes mention of the 1 2th 
 Verfe of the 3d Chapter, as fpoken in 
 that Kincf s Time \ and in all probability, 
 fo was all that follows, and fpoken after 
 the Captivity of the Ten Tribes, which 
 fell out in the Sixth Year of his Reign : 
 
 And 
 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. 101 
 
 And 'tis evident to all, who read the Sa- 
 cred Story, that King Hezekiah was a 
 moft Illuftrious Reformer of God's 
 Church, as was Joiham before, and Jo- 
 Jias after him. 
 
 A s the Prophet dire&eq his Difcourfe 
 to the Church, to the Reformed Church 
 in general \ fo he apply'd himfclf to all 
 Degrees of Men in particular. He 
 preach 'd not only to the People, and to 
 the Priefts, but to the Court j To the 
 Heads of the Houfe of Jacob, and to 
 the Princes of the Houfe of I ft a el, Ch. 3. 
 V« 9. Nay, to King Hezekiah himfelf ^ 
 in whofe Prefence, as the Prophet Jere- 
 my informs us, Chap. 26. v. 18. he de- 
 liver^ that direful Prophecy , Therefore 
 fall Zion, for your fake, be plowed as a 
 Field, and Jerufalem (hall become Heaps , 
 and the Mountain of the Houfe , as the 
 High Places of the Fore ft r Chap. 3. v. 12. 
 Warning the King, and the Court, of 
 the Danger of National Sins j of the 
 National Judgments they would certain- 
 ly bring down, unlefs prevented by a 
 National Repentance. 
 
 I T was a bold Undertaking, to de- 
 nounce God's Judgments to the King, 
 and to the Court j and to tell them , 
 that the King's Palace, and that the 
 G 4 whole 
 
I en A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 whole City of Jerusalem jhould be plowed, 
 fhould be utterly deftroy'd : Such Mor- 
 tifying Subje&s as thfefe, Courts, above 
 all others, are not willing to hear of. 
 But true Prophets, in the Delivery of 
 their Meilages , fear none but God, and 
 dare fey any thing that God commands 
 them. And there are Times, when 
 Prophets cannot, muft not, keep Silence } 
 when the Watchmen ought to blow the 
 Trumpet, to give the Warning of Repen- 
 tance to the whole Land , or if the 
 Land will not take the Warning, to free 
 their own Souls. 
 
 Amos, who was originally neither 
 Prophet, nor Prophet's Son, but a poor. 
 Her df nan of Tekoa \ yet when God 
 fent him, he had Courage from above, 
 to prophefy againft Ifrael, againft King 
 Jeroboam, and againft the Worfhip of 
 the Calves : That the High Places of 
 lfaac Jljould be defolate, and the Sanctu- 
 aries of Ifrael laid wafle, and that God 
 would rife againft the Houfe of Jeroboam 
 with the Sword. And to prophefy thefe 
 terrible things, even at Bethel, which 
 was the Kings Chapel, and the King's 
 Court : And to prophefy in fpire of A- 
 mazidb 7 the Prieft 0/ Bethel, who falfly 
 accus'd Amos to Jeroboam, for confpiring 
 
 againft 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. 103 
 
 a^ainfl hhn\ adding, that the hand was 
 not able to bear all his Words : As if a 
 true Zeal for God, had been Rebellion 
 againft the King. 
 
 The Prophet Jeremy once thought 
 to leave off Prophecying, when he faw 
 the Word of the Lord made a Reproach, 
 and a Derifion daily 5 but he was not 
 able to continue (Ilent, as he himfelf 
 confefles. I faid , I will not make men- 
 tion of him, nor fpeak any more in his 
 Name: But his Word was in my Heart , 
 as a burning Fire fbut up in my Bones : 
 I was weary with forbearing, and I could 
 not flay. 
 
 The Prophet Micah was very pow- 
 erfully mov'd, and aflifted, and cries 
 out, Truly I am full of Power by the 
 Spirit of the Lord, and of Judgment, 
 and of Might, to declare unto Jacob his 
 Tranfgreffion, and to Ifrael his Sin, Ch. 3. 
 v. 8. And that Afliitance of God's Spi- 
 rit made him wonderfully fuccefsful:, in- 
 fomuch that King Hezekiah was fo 
 wrought on by Micah's Words, That he 
 fear'd the Lord, and be fought the Lord y 
 and the Lord repented him of the Evil 
 which he had pronounced againjl them. 
 
 Happy was it for the King, that he 
 fo devoutly attended to the Prophet: 
 
 Happy 
 
 
104. A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 tlappy was it for the Prophet, that he 
 had the Opportunity of Preaching to the 
 King himfelf. Had he preached thefe 
 fevere, though neceffary Truths, in ano- 
 ther Congregation, where a Sort of 
 Men, fuch as the Pfalmi/l complains of, 
 came on purpofe to wrefl his Words y 
 and with Thoughts againft htm for Evil^ 
 What Tragical Relations had been made 
 of his Sermon ? But the Prophet was 
 fafe under the King's gracious Prote&ion, 
 and in having the King himfelf for his 
 Auditor :, who being like an Angel ofGod, 
 liked the Preacher the better, for the 
 confcientious Difcharge of his Prophe- 
 tick Duty. 
 
 But though the Prophet preached to 
 the Church, to the Reformed Church of 
 Judahj and to all Degrees of Men in 
 it ^ to the People, to the Priefts, to the 
 Court, and to the King himfelf;, yet the 
 Words f have chofen to difcourfe on, 
 are to be appropriated to the Penitent 
 Part only of this Reformed Church} 
 becaufe that Reliance on God's Mercy, 
 and that Senfe of their own Guilt, 
 which is here exprefled, is applicable on- 
 ly to them :> and to them only, the Cha- 
 rafter here given can fully agree* 
 
 You 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. » 105 
 
 You all know , that the whole 
 Church of JndaJo was by Hezekiah re- 
 formed from Idolatry , and had the true 
 Worfhip of God reiior'd, and all Sorts 
 of People fecm'd with great Readinefs to 
 contribute to that Reformation :, not only 
 the Priefts, but the People , and the Prin- 
 ces, all Jbetr'd a vigorous Zeal in all the 
 Cities of Jit dab , breaking down the 
 Images, and cutting down the Groves, 
 and throwing down the High Places and 
 Altars, and offering very Liberally to the 
 Service, of the Temple. But even in this 
 good King's Days, though they were 
 reformed in their Faith, and in the Pub- 
 lick Worfhip, the Generality of them 
 were . ftill unreform'd in their Lives. 
 And yet as wicked as they were, they 
 thought themfelves very fecure from 
 God's Anger. A ftrange Stupidity had 
 poflefs'd them to that Degree , that they 
 hand upon the Lord , and f aid, Is not 
 the Lord among us ? No Evil can come 
 upon us. Of all this the Prophet fre- 
 quently in this Prophecy, and in this 
 very Chapter, fadly complains, lament- 
 ing the Univerfal Corruption of Man- 
 ners, which he Taw in the People, in 
 the Princes, in the Priefts, in all Orders 
 of Men, andthreatning very fore Judg- 
 ments to their Impenitence.. Ylt 
 
io6 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Yet ftill, by the great Goodnefs of 
 God, there was in this , and in the fol- 
 lowing Reigns , which were all wicked 
 and irreligious, except that of JoJias y 
 among a great Number of Apoftates to 
 Idolatry , a Remnant left. There were 
 fome Gleanings of good Men, who took 
 Warning from the Prophet ,, and from 
 the Captivity of the Ten Tribes } who 
 wifely learn'd Repentance from the wo- 
 fui Experience of their Captive Neigh- 
 bours, and kept alive that Reformation, 
 which had been fo happily begun. The 
 Prophet faw, that on fuch as thefe his 
 Sermons had their delir'd Effeft^ and 
 profeffes, That his Words did good to 
 him, that walk'd uprightly, Chap. 2. v. 7* 
 And 'tis of fuch as thefe, 'tis of this 
 Penitent Remnant of theReform'dChurch 
 of Judah, the Prophet here fpeaks, Re- 
 joice not againjl me^ <3Cc. 
 
 'T 1 s eafy to obferve, that the Pro- 
 phet in thefe Words, draws Three feve- 
 ral Pictures of ReformM Judah : And 
 he draws her in Three diftind Poftures, 
 like a Captive , like a Penitent, and like 
 a Conqueror. He draws her Calamity, 
 in the Firft , her Behaviour under it, in 
 the Second \ and her Deliverance from 
 it, in the Third* 
 
 ■!• He 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. 107 
 
 1, He draws her firft like a Captive, 
 like a Captive Woman fitting in the Duft, 
 in a difconfolate forlorn Condition, be- 
 wailing her Captivity. And the Parti- 
 culars out of which this mournful Idea 
 is compofed, is couch'd in thefe Expref- 
 (ions : Her Enemy, her Enemy rejoicing, 
 her Fall, her fitting in Darknefs, and the 
 Indignation of the Lord. 
 
 If you pleafe then to liften to the 
 Lamentations of Captive Jitdah, you 
 will hear her begin them with mine 
 Enemy : And great Reafon (he had fo to 
 do. For her Enemy, or nther Enemies, 
 the Singular being here put for the Plu- 
 ral, were very numerous, and in all re- 
 fpe&s very formidable 5 moreNationsthan 
 one were immediately combined in her 
 Ruin } and particularly the Babylonians, 
 and the Edomites, who are chiefly re- 
 mark'd in Holy Scripture. 
 
 The Babylonians were a Mighty Na- 
 tion , whofe Qitiver was as an open Se- 
 pulchre j and they were all Mighty Men, 
 who would eat up all the Harvefl, the 
 Flocks and the Herds, the Vines and the 
 Fig-trees, and impoverijh all the Fenced 
 Cities, wherein jndah trufted, with the 
 Sword. They were cruel, and would 
 Jhew no Mercy 3 a bitter and. hafy Nati~ 
 
 on^ 
 
io8 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 ■ ' m ill.— —i ii i ■ i '— — — ^— w — 
 
 on, Terrible and Dreadful y and very hea- 
 vily laid their Toke on God's People. I 
 need fay no more of them than this, 
 that St. John, when he was to draw a 
 Prophetick Defcription of the Great An- 
 tichrift under the Gofpel, was direfted 
 by the Spirit of God , to mike Babylon 
 the Type, and to paint Spiritual Baby- 
 lon in the Colours of the Temporal ; as 
 if no Nation under Heaven were infa- 
 mous and wicked enough, to furnifh him 
 with Idolatry, and Pride, and Unclean- 
 nefs, and Covetoufnefs, and Cruelty, 
 and Impiety, in full Perfection, fit to 
 refemble the Man of Sin, but only the 
 Babylonian. 
 
 The Edomites were the Children of 
 Efau, and originally of the fame Blood, 
 and of the fame Religion with Judah , 
 though they revolted from the Church 
 of God. And thefe feem'd to have de- 
 rived from Efau their Father, his Per- 
 verfenefs, which he remarkably fhew'c! 
 to his Aged Mother :> infomuch that Jo* 
 pc Be!!, fephus gives them this Chara&er, That 
 jud. l. 4. tfey W ere a turbulent and unruly Natio?i y 
 always prone to Commotions, and rejoicing 
 in Changes. But their Animofity againft 
 Judah feem'd to be Hereditary } the 
 Lofs of the Birth-right, and of the 
 
 Bleffing 
 
upon Paflion-Sunday. 109 
 
 Blefiing in their Father, entail'd Revenue 
 on all his Pofterity. And they were all 
 along the natural Enemies of the Chil- 
 dren of Jacob. And when they faw 
 Jadah aflaulted by the Babylonians, they 
 fided with Judah's Enemies, and thirfled 
 to have a Share in the Deftru&ion of 
 God's Church. They had a perpetual 
 Hatred, and Jhed the Blood of the Chil- 
 dren of Ifrael by the Force of the Sword y 
 in the Thne of their Calamity. Edom 
 purfued his Brother with the Sword, and 
 did cajl off all Pity, and his Anger did 
 tear perpetually, and he kept his Wrath 
 for ever. The Prophet Obadiah fpends 
 his whole Prophecy on Edom, for his 
 Violence to his Brother, for (landing in 
 the Crofs-way to cut off thofe that did 
 efcape , and for delivering thofe that did 
 remain in the Day of Dfftrefs. So that 
 the Edomite was an Enemy as mercilefs, 
 and as implacable, as the very Babylo- 
 nian. 
 
 Such were the Enemies of Affli&ed 
 Judah ^ and God in his juft Indignation 
 againft Judah's Sins, gave both thefe 
 Enemies their delir'd Succefs^ Succefs 
 that was able to fatiate the moft impetu- 
 ous and revengeful Cruelty. For they 
 did not only make a compleat Conquefl 
 
 over 
 
i io A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 over Judah :, but when fhe was conquer'd, 
 and proftrate at their Feet , and paft all 
 polTibility of the leaft Refiftance, they 
 infolently infulted over the Conquered , 
 they rejoiced againft her. This cut Cap- 
 tive Judah to the Heart, and goar'd her 
 Soul with a Multitude of new Sorrows. 
 It was a grievous Calamity to be con- 
 quered ^ but all her Miferies were acfed 
 over again, and again, and again, when 
 thev infulted, when the Enemy rejoiced 
 againft her. 
 
 The Babylonians , they rejoic'd 
 againft Captive Judah : and as they pafs 
 by, they clap their Hands , they hifs, and 
 wag the Head at the Daughter of Jeru- 
 falem , faying^ Is this the City that Men 
 call the Perfection of Beauty ■, the Joy of 
 the whole Earth ? But that which cut 
 deepeft, was their blafphemous Taunt, 
 v. i o. Where is the Lord thy God ? The 
 Gods of Hamah, and Arphad y and the 
 Gods of Sepharvaim^ were not able to 
 deliver Samaria out of the Hand of the 
 King of Affyria j and your Great Jeho- 
 vah y we now find, is as feeble as any of 
 them , and as unable to refift the Great 
 King of Babylon j or the God of Ifrael 
 has abandoned his own hated Ifrael^ or 
 he is fied to Babylon, as a Tributary 
 
 God, 
 
upon Paflion-Sundiy. 1 1 i 
 
 God, to do Homage to the Imperial De- 
 ity of our Great God Bel. You your 
 felves daily prophanc the Name of your 
 own God : You your felves renounce 
 him , and fly to our Gods for Refuge ^ 
 your o\ r v r n God being no longer able to 
 proteft you j your own God, who is 
 as much King Nebuchadnezzar $ Cap- 
 tive , as you that are his vain Adorers t 
 Tell us, miferable Wretches, tell us 
 now, which is the Almighty, Jehovah 
 or Bel} 
 
 The Edomkes they alfo rejoiced a~ 
 gain (I Captive Jit dab, and impioufly re- 
 proachM her : Where is the Lord thy 
 God ? Your Jehovah is become a Fugi- 
 tive \ he wanders about the World, 
 without Temple, or Houfe to dwell im 
 How is your Prophecy now fulfilled, 
 That the Elder fljould ferve the Tounger> 
 Say , which now inherits the Blefling ^ 
 Efau the Conqueror, of Jttdah the Cap- 
 tive ? Thus did Judalos Enemies in- 
 fultingly open their Mouths againft her j 
 They hifs\l, and gnaflfd the teeth, and 
 J aid , We have [wallowed her up ; Cer- 
 tainly this is the Day we look for ^ we 
 have found, we have fetn it* Go on,, 
 Vi&orious Babylonians \ root out the 
 Memory of Judah from the Earth i 
 H Jitti*k f 
 
in A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Judah, forfaken by their God, and de- 
 teftable to the whole World. Thus did 
 the Children of Edo?n, in the day of Je- 
 rufalem, cry, Down with it, down with 
 it, even to the ground. Thus, with the 
 Joy of all their Heart % and with de- 
 fpitefid Minds , did Idumea rejoice at 
 the Inheritance of the Houfe of Ifrael, 
 becaufe fie was made de folate. 
 
 Such Infults as thefe, from the Ba- 
 bylonians and the Edomites , were the 
 very Gall of Bitternefs to Captive Ju± 
 dah ; and fo much the more affli&ing, 
 becaufe hef Fall, her Deftruclion was fo 
 dreadful and confummate. The whole 
 Country , the Land flowing with Milk 
 and Honey, was laid wafte : The City, 
 all the Palaces, the King's Houfe, and 
 the Temple, were burnt to Alhes. All 
 her People, her Nobles, and her Priefts, 
 were either ftarv'd bv Famine, or ftruck 
 dead by raging Peftilence, or barba- 
 roufly put to the Sword , or, which is 
 lefs eligible to Generous Minds, enilav'd. 
 Her King Zedehah , faw his Sons, the 
 young Princes, the Hope of 'the King- 
 dom , murder'd before his Eyes j the 
 laft Sight they were for ever to fee : 
 For his weeping Eyes, as they dropp'd 
 Tears for his murder'd Children , were, 
 
 by 
 
upon Paflion-Sunctay. 
 
 I* 
 
 by the Babylonians , put out : and the 
 
 Captive, Childlefs, Blind, Mournful 
 King, was bound in Fetters, and car- 
 ry M to Babylon. 
 
 And yet this Calamity, as great, as 
 general as it was, did m this reeeive a 
 very doleful Aggravation, that it was not 
 only great, but lading. Judah did not 
 only Fall , was not only m Dafkntjs, 
 which in Holy Scripture iignifies a very 
 heavy Affliftion j but the was to SfV, to 
 continue in Darknefs : For Sitting- \m- 
 plies Continuance. Her Captivity, reck- 
 oning it from the Reign of Jehoiakiw^ 
 was to endure 70 Years together j fo 
 that very few , or none , who faw the 
 Beginning of their Mifery , could che- 
 rifti any Hope of Living to fee the End 
 of it : The Captivity it felf being com- 
 menfurate to the Age of Man, which is 
 Threefcore Years and ten , an Age to 
 which very few attain. And it Was a 
 killing Confideration , to lie buried in 
 fuch a Sorrow, from whence there was 
 no Hope of a Refurredion. 
 
 But Ju dab's Enemy, Her Enemy re- 
 ]o'ning, Her Fall, Her Sitting in Dark- 
 nefs , though they were very bitter and 
 deadly Ingredients of her Calamity, yet 
 that which made her in all Bfcfpeds 
 H 2 com- 
 
ii4 A Sermon at Whitehall., 
 
 compleatly miferable, was, The Indigna- 
 tion of the Lord. All the reft are eafy 
 to be endur'd , when God is on our 
 Side :> but the Sins of Judah had mod 
 juftly provok'd God's Anger , and made 
 him their Enemy. And the Anger, 
 much more the Indignation of God, has 
 fuch a Confluence of Terrors in it, of 
 Terrors in Body, and in Soul, of Ter- 
 rors Particular and National , of Ter- 
 rors Temporal and Eternal , that had 
 Judah never had Enemy , had Judah 
 never fallen , had Judah never fat in 
 Varknefs , yet the Indignation of the 
 t Lord was fufficient of it felf to have 
 fowr'd all her Profperity , and would 
 have rendered her Condition infinitely 
 more deplorable than the Babylonians^ 
 and the Edomites , and all the damn'd 
 Spirits they invok'd, could poflibly have 
 done. Great Reafon then had Captive 
 Judah to have an indelible ImprefTion 
 of her Miferies , and mod fadly to be- 
 wail her Calamity :, which being Uni- 
 verfal to the whole Land , we may ea- 
 filv imagine the Sorrow to have been 
 Universal alfo. The Cbftinate as well 
 as the Penitent had a Senfe of their 
 Bondage : They all felt the Punilh- 
 ment :> but the Penitent only felt the 
 
 Sin, 
 
t'pon Falcon-Sunday. nc 
 
 Sin. The Penitent only had the Skill 
 to turn their very Mifery into a Blef- 
 fiijg, by their Religious Demeanour under 
 it. Which is the next Thing to be 
 confider'd ^ The Behaviour of Reform' d 
 JuJah under her Calamity : x^nd this 
 is the 
 
 2d. Posture in which fhe is 
 drawn by the Prophet :> like a Captive 
 before , but now like a Penitent. And 
 her Behaviour is conliderable , In Re- 
 fpeft of her Enemy ; In Refpetf: of God^ 
 and, In Refpeft of her felf 
 
 I n Refped of her Enemy, her Beha- 
 viour is expreiVd in thefe Words ^ Re- 
 joice not again/i me , mine Enemy. 
 Judah gives her Enemies no ill Lan- 
 guage : She knew it was her Burthen to 
 bear Reproach , as well as Captivity. 
 The hardeft Word fhe here ufes , to- 
 wards either the Babylonian , or the £- 
 domite, is Enemy. And fuch they pro- 
 feiledly were , and ihe ligh'd under the 
 Violence of that Enmity , with which 
 they both had overwhelmed her : And 
 all the humble Captive has to fay to her 
 Enemy , is either a modeft Rebuke , or 
 a feirlefs Requeft, or a Charitable Item, 
 not. to grow too intblent by Succefs ^ 
 H 3 Rejoice 
 
rid A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Rejoict hot agatnfl me j mine Em- 
 my, 
 
 R fe j o T C E hit againft me. ye 
 Babylonians + Remember that the mofl 
 Wgh ruleth in the Kingdom of men, and 
 giveth it to whomsoever he will. He on- 
 ly is the God of Battel , the Sole Attn- 
 ter of Peace and War, and can in one 
 Minute turn the whole Torrent of Ca- 
 lamity on you : And fo he certainly 
 will 5 for the Prophets that foretold my 
 Captivity, have alio promis'd, and fore- 
 told my Deliverance : And the very 
 fame Prophets have threatned Miferies 
 much more dreadful to befal you ^ Mi- 
 fines , to which no Relief is promis'd, 
 to which nothing is foretold, but out- 
 ragious Defpair. The Burthen which 
 God mil lay on Babylon , (hall fink her 
 much lower than Captive Judah is now ^ 
 When the Meafure of her Covetoufnefs is 
 full, her End ivill then come. And it is 
 filling apace , if not brim-full alreadyc 
 Jitdah's Calamity has a determinate 
 Period :> it (hall laft but 70 Years at the 
 iongeft \ but Babylon 's fhall be Eternal : 
 Therefore rejoice not again (I me y ye 
 Babylonians* 
 
 Rejoice 
 
upon Paflion-Sunday. i 17 
 
 Rejoice not, O ye Edomites ; for 
 in infulting over irfe , ye infult over 
 
 your own Mifcries , as well as mine. 
 Our God has commanded the Jew, not 
 to abhor an Edomite : for he is his Bro- 
 ther. Why fliould hot this Command 
 be mutually obferv'd on both Sides > 
 Why ihould the Edomite abhor his Bro- 
 ther Jew .<? If both Sides had been to 
 blame , Why fliould not their common 
 Danger have reconcil'd them ? Ah had 
 Judah and Edom revived that Brotherly 
 Affection , which, before the Lofs of 
 the Birth-right, harboured in the Breads 
 of their Fathers, Jacob and Efau } had 
 rhey both join'd for the common Safety, 
 againft the Babylonian , the common E- 
 nemy humanly fpcaking j both might 
 have preferv'd their Liberty : But Edom 
 will be an eafy Prey to the Babylonian, 
 now her Neighbour Judah is led Cap- 
 tive, Rejoice not then againft Captive 
 Judah ^ fince every Wound you give 
 Judah , makes Edom bleed. Rejoice 
 not ^ for there can be no greater Sign of 
 Judicial Infatuation , that God has de~ 
 flroyd the Wife Men out of Edom, than 
 Edom\ Rejoicing at Judah's Captivity, 
 which muft needs precipitate her own* 
 And to allure Edom that her Burthen 
 H 4 (hill 
 
ii8 Ji Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 (hall be much heavier than that of Ju- 
 dah , the Prophets have foretold more 
 terrible Judgments to befal Edom , than 
 Judah ever endur'd. The Sword f:aU 
 come npon Edom , the People of God's 
 Citrfe : the Calamity of fifau jhall be 
 brought upon him. Te fhatt be defolate , 
 your Pride foatt be brought down : Te 
 flpaU be as fiubble. God will fpeak a- 
 gainfl all Idumea, in the five of his jea- 
 loufy ; He will cut off man and heajl ^ 
 your Kings , and your Princes. Ana ye 
 jhall drink the cap of God's fury ' and 
 therefore y Rejoice not a gain f me 7 ye 
 Edomites. 
 
 No Reafon then, you fee, had either 
 the Babylonian or the Edomite , to re- 
 joice over Penitent , lieformd Judah, 
 when in the loweft Ebb of her Mifery : 
 But great Reafon had Judah , amidft 
 all her Sorrows, to rejoice her felf. And 
 that from her Behaviour 
 
 In Refped of God : In whom (lie 
 here exprelfes a very firm Confidence, 
 of Deliverance , and of Support. Of 
 Deliverance ; When I fall , I (hall rife< 
 Of Support \ When I ft in Darknefs^ the 
 Lord Jhall be a Light unto me y 
 
 Of 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. i i 
 
 Ok Deliverance ; When I fall, I (ball 
 rife. When I fall : When Jerufalem is 
 J aid wafte , and the Temple turn'd to 
 Afhes , and the whole Nation carry'd 
 Captive into a ftrange Land. From 
 fucli an utter Defolation as this, for Ju* 
 clab to date, or to infer her Reftoration ^ 
 When I fall, Ijhall rife :, feems to be a 
 Confidence very prepofterous. And yet 
 it is further ohfervable , that Penitent 
 Jjidab does not only conclude her own 
 Rife from her Fall ^ but concludes the 
 fame of all the Nation in General, tho' 
 fhe well knew , that it was a Remnant 
 only that repented. And as prepofte- 
 rous as fuch Conclufions feem, they were 
 moft rational ones for Penitent Judah to 
 make , and very ftrongly built, not on- 
 ly on God's Promife of Reftoring her 
 after 70 Years , but on the ufual known 
 Methods of Divine Providence. 
 
 For God is wont to introduce his 
 moft eminent Mercies , by fome (harp 
 previous Affliction, that his People may 
 be the better prepared to bear Profperity, 
 which is too apt to alienate our Affecti- 
 ons from God , and to fix them on the 
 World ^ unlefs Calamity does firft mor- 
 tify and humble them ^ and make us 
 more follicitous to perform the Duty, 
 
 than 
 
i2o A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 than to enjoy the Blefling. I need go 
 no farther for an Inftance, than the Firft 
 Leffon read this Day , 3. Exod. 9, 10. 
 Where we are taught , That when the 
 Children of IfraeVs Cry was come up to 
 God^ and their Oppreffion was grown 
 infupportable, then God fent Mofes mi- 
 raculoufly to deliver them. So that 
 whenfoever the Servants of God fee 
 their Miferics feemingly paft all Reme- 
 dy , then is God's Seafon for their Ref- 
 cue. The more to magnify his Power, 
 and to endear his Paternal Care : to 
 make the Blefling the more valuable •, 
 to manifeft that it is his own Work, and 
 that all the Glory of it is due only to 
 himfelf : To enkindle the greater Love ^ 
 to excite the more exalted Praife :, and 
 fo to difpofe the Receiver , that he may 
 not abufe God's Favour when it comes, 
 and turn the Blefling into a Curfe. 
 Well then might Judah prognofticate 
 her Exaltation from her Humiliation, 
 and fay , When I fall , I jhall 
 rife. 
 
 Sometimes God works Delive- 
 rances for his People, not becaufe they 
 are univerfally humbled and reclaim'd, 
 but purely for his own Name's Sake. 
 This God himfelf declares again and 
 
 again : 
 

 upon Paflion-Sunday. 1 3 i 
 
 again : / had pity for my Holy Name y 
 which the Houfe of Ifrael had prophand 
 among the Heathen. I do not this for 
 pur Sakes, Houfe of Ifrael 5 but for 
 my Holy Name's Sake , which ye have 
 prophand among the Heathen , dec. 
 Well then might Penitent Judah, from 
 that Ellential Zeal God has to aflert his 
 own Sovereign Glory, infer the De- 
 liverance of the People call'd by his 
 Name :> though but a Remnant only did 
 repent. When I foil, I frail rife. 
 
 Again. It is cuftomary with God, 
 to fpare a Multitude , for the Sake of 
 a few : As he would have done Sodom., 
 at Abraham s Prayers , had there been 
 ten Righteous Perfons in it. And the 
 like we read of Jerufalem ] where y if 
 before the Captivity, there had been any 
 that had executed Judgment , and had 
 fought the Truth ^ God would have par- 
 don d it. Befides , God is powerfully 
 prevaiPd on by the Prayers of thole 
 few Righteous Perfons , that cry unto 
 him for the reft : And Judah knew, 
 that under the Captivity there was a 
 Remnant of fuch Righteous Perfons , of 
 Souls truly humbled , crying Day an J 
 Night to God , bewailing the Sins of 
 Sion , and praying for the Peace of Je- 
 rufalem* 
 
iii A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 rufahm. Thefe Holy Perfons continu- 
 ally flood in the Gap before God, that he 
 fcould not utterly deftroy the 'Nation. 
 Thefe were God's Remembrancers i who 
 kept not Silence, and would give him no 
 Reft , till he eftablijh'd, till he made Je- 
 rusalem a Praife in the Earth. Judah 
 well knew the mighty Force that fuch 
 effettual fervent Prayers had on the ten- 
 der Mercy of God :> and that made her 
 confident for her felf, and for the whole 
 Captivity, and put her into a Tranfport 
 of devout Admiration : Who is a God 
 like unto thee 5 that pardoneth Iniquity, 
 and paffeth by the Tranfgreffwn of the 
 Remnant of his Heritage ? He retaineth 
 not his Anger for ever : He will turn 
 again :, he will have Companion on us, 
 <3cc. Ver. 18, 19, 20. Thus, from the 
 Repentance, and devout Supplications of 
 the Remnant only of God's Heritage, 
 Judah firmly concludes the Deliverance 
 of the whole Heritage :, When I fall, I 
 pall rife. 
 
 Nor. was Judah only confident of 
 Deliverance , but of Support alfo in the 
 mean time : When I Jit in Darknefs, the 
 Lord will be a Light unto me. x\nd 
 this Confidence was grounded on the 
 ufual Conduct of propitious Providence, 
 
 as 
 
upon Pafiion-Sunday. i 3 3 
 
 as well as the other. For in Micab, and 
 the reft of the Prophets, when God de- 
 nounces Judgments againft his People, 
 his Threats are intermingled with Pro- 
 mifes of Bleflings , either Temporal of 
 Evangelical. Well then might Penitent 
 Judah fay , When I fit in Darknefs, the 
 Lord will be a Lio-ht unto me. When 1 
 am deprived of all the Comforts of Life, 
 abandon'd by all worldly Succours ^ 
 when God himfelf feems to defert me, 
 and fuffers me to lie 70 Years together 
 in a vexatious Captivity :, when God 
 feems to cover himfelf with a Cloud, that 
 my Prayer Jhould not pafs through ^ then 
 will the Lord be a Light unto me \ at 
 Midnight I fliall fee a clear Sun-fhine. 
 In the multitude of the Sorrows I (hall 
 then have in my Heart , God's Comforts 
 {hall refrefl: my Soul. My infulting E- 
 nemies hinder my other Friends , but 
 cannot hinder God , who is my belt 
 Friend, from Vifiting me. When Poor, 
 Captive, Exile, Penitent Judah , lies 
 chain'd in a Babylonijh Dungeon , dark 
 as Hell j yet the Rays of the Divine 
 Benignity can pierce through the thick- 
 eft Darkncfs , to enlighten and revive 
 me. My Chains will be then more eli- 
 gible than Liberty : Babylon will make 
 
 me 
 
124- -4 Sermon at Whitehall., 
 
 tpe forget Sion. My very Dungeon will 
 be Heaven upon Earth , when I enjoy 
 God there. No fad Thought fhall 
 arife , but I can take San&uary in one 
 of his Gracious Promifes , which fhall 
 inftantly difpel it. If this be Captivity, 
 by becoming a Babylonifo Slave , to be- 
 come the Lord's Freeman , O may my 
 Captivity laft not 70, but 70 times Se- 
 ven Years. No Time, O Lord, is long ^ 
 Eternity it fclf is not tedious , that is 
 fpent in thy Fruition. O Almighty 
 Goodnefs, thou only canft make Capti- 
 vity defirable : Welcome then Darknefs ^ 
 there will I lit, defiring to fee no Light, 
 but what comes from thy Countenance \ 
 for thou art Light , and Liberty , and 
 Joy , and all in all to thofe , who for 
 thy Sake are content for a while, to Jit 
 in Darknefs. 
 
 Such was the Behaviour , fach was 
 the Glorious Confidence of the Penitent 
 Reforind Church of Juclah , under the 
 Babylonijh Yoke, which (lie had always 
 in her God :> a Confidence which was 
 a much greater Blefling to her, than her 
 Safety , her Freedom , her Profpcrity 
 could have been. Will you next fee her 
 Behaviour, 
 
 \ \ 
 
upon PafTion-Sunday. ia 
 
 In Rcfpcd of Her lelf > Which is 
 Penitential , and was the true folid 
 Ground of all her Confidence in God : 
 And it includes Three Particulars. 
 
 Her SubmifTion , in regard to the 
 Greatncfs of her Aftii&ion :, / will bear 
 the Indignation of the Lord. 
 
 Her Patience in regard to its Conti- 
 nuance } I will bear the Indignation of 
 the Lord, until he plead my Canfe, 
 &Cc. 
 
 H e R. Confeflion , in regard to her 
 Sins } which drew down that great and 
 continued Affli&ion on her , Becanfe I 
 have finnd again fl him. 
 
 Her. Submiffion , in regard to the 
 Greatnefs of her Affli&ion , is plac'd 
 firft :> J will bear the Indignation of the 
 Lord. The Indignation of the Lord 
 is a frightful ExprelTion , and in Holy 
 Scripture does not only fignify God's 
 Anger , but the Fiercenefs of that An- 
 ger. And when God is once provok'd 
 to that degree , that He takes to him f elf 
 the Weapons of his Indignation , when 
 he marches through the Land in Indigna- 
 tion , and threjhes the People vn his An- 
 
 per ; 
 
\i6 A Sermon at Whitehall^ 
 
 ger : When the Mountains quake , and 
 the Kills melt , and the 'Earth trembles - 5 
 who can jland before his Indignation ; 
 and who can abide in the Fiercenefs of 
 his Anger ? Who , of all the Sons of 
 Adam , can ftand in God's Sight when 
 he is angry, much lefs when he is mov'd 
 to Indignation , to fiery Indignation, 
 which devours his Adversaries $ David 
 was fo terrified at the Thoughts of it, 
 that he eat Afoes like Bread , and ming- 
 led his Drink with weeping , becanfe of 
 God's Indignation. How then could 
 Jitdah refolve to bear that , which is 
 impoffible to be born , and to cry out, 
 J will bear the Indignation of the 
 Lord .<? 
 
 True it is, the Indignation of the 
 Lord is a Weight too heavy for any to 
 fuftain but the Son of God , who had 
 the Iniquities of the whole World laid 
 on his Shoulders :, too heavy for a Sin- 
 ner to bear, but not for a Penitent, fuch 
 as Judah was, who could therefore beat 
 it, becanfe the Lamb of God , who was 
 fore-ordained before the Beginning of the 
 World, had rendered it fupportable. The 
 wicked drink the wine of God's wrath y 
 pour'd out without Mixture , without 
 any Mixture of Mercy, into the Cup of 
 
 his 
 
upon Paflion-Sunday. 127 
 
 his Indignation , and they perifh by the 
 Draught : But the Penitent, when they 
 drink the wine of Goers wrath, they al- 
 ways drink it with a Mixture of Mer- 
 cy ^ and that which is deadly Poyfon to 
 the one i is a Reftorative to the other* 
 It was mingled for Judah with Mercy, 
 God did not, on the humble Capti- 
 fuffer his whole Difpleafure to arife ; 
 but corre&ed her in Meafure , Jail on 
 her no more than he fupported her to 
 bear, and by degrees made the Hearts of 
 the very Babylonians to relent towards 
 her \ fo that in the Peace of the Land, 
 Judah alfo enjoyed Peace. All the time 
 the Impenitent felt the Terrors of the 
 Lord, God call'd the Mourners into his 
 peculiar Care , into a Refuge from the 
 Storm : Come my People, enter thou into 
 thy Chambers, and Jhut thy Door about 
 thee , and hide thy f elf as it were for d 
 little Moment , until the Indignation b& 
 overpaft. The Indignation lafted but 
 for a Moment, but for a little Moment ; 
 and God was fo infinitely tender oi 
 his Church , that he gave Warning of 
 the Indignation before it came i and 
 Warning of the Critical, Dangerous lit- 
 tle Moment, when it was to come 5 and 
 Id not, for that one little Moment, 
 
n8 A Sermon at Whitehall., 
 
 leave it exposed } but hid it in fafe 
 Shelter ., that the Indignation could not 
 reach it. Since then the Paternal In- 
 dulgence of God levelPd his Judgments 
 to Judalfs Strength , and fuftain'd her 
 all the while with Cordial Confolations } 
 well might ihe refolve , as bitter as the 
 Cup was, to drink it off, as great as the 
 Calamity feem'd, to endure it : J will 
 bear the Indignation of the Lord ^ let 
 him lay more on me , fo that as he in- 
 creafes my Load , he increafes my Sup- 
 ports : I will bear as much Load as he is 
 pleas'd to lay on me \ I will bear the 
 Indignation of the Lord. 
 
 T H u s did Penitent Reformed Judah 
 exercife an humble Submiflion to the 
 Greatnefs of her Affli&ion. And fo 
 ihe did an unwearied Patience to its 
 Continuance alfo : / will bear the Indig- 
 nation of the Lord , until he plead my 
 Caufe. Until intimates her Affliction to 
 be faffing , as well as great : And fo it 
 was. For the Prophet Jeremy had told 
 Judah , that her Captivity was to laft 
 70 Years. It feem'd a long Time to 
 live-in Exile and Slavery , and to fuffer 
 the Affronts and Indignities of infulting 
 Enemies. But God, to chaftife his own 
 
 Peo- 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. 119 
 
 People , to cure them of Idolatry , to 
 fcatter fome Beams of Saving Know- 
 ledge , fome Notices of the true God 
 among the Gentiles and fome prepara- 
 tory Intimations of the future Meffias , 
 for thefe, and the like moft Holy, Wife, 
 and Gracious Purpofes , had fo decreed 
 it. And there was nothing left for 
 Judah , but an entire Acquiefcence in, 
 and Refignation to the Divine Will • 
 and patiently, without murmuring, to 
 wait on God , and to attend his Time, 
 which is always bed for us, always bet- 
 ter than to chufe for our felves. And 
 this was her daily Practice , as (he pro- 
 feffes , v. j* I will look unto the Lord ^ 
 I will wait for the God of my Salvation* 
 My God will hear me. And while (lie 
 Was thus waiting on God , for a Return 
 of her Prayers, all Holy Perfons who 
 died in Captivity , died with the Satis- 
 faction of Mofes 5 they had a joyful 
 Profped of the Promifed Land , tho* 
 they did not live to enter it } but in- 
 ftead of the Earthly Jerufalem , they 
 both faw, and enter'd the Heavenly* 
 And this Confideration was enough to 
 make them efteem their Captivity fhort, 
 when it procured their Eternal Freedom. 
 Well then might Penitent Judah be con- 
 1 a 
 
i^o A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 tent with her Fetters \ and fay , I will 
 bear the Indignation of the Lord , / will 
 bear it, until he pleads my Canfe. 
 
 But that which created this Confi- 
 dence in God , which made Judah fo 
 fubmiflive to the Greatnefs , and fo pa- 
 tient under the Continuance of her Af- 
 fliction j was the deep Senfe of her 
 Guilt , which occafion'd her Penitential 
 Confeilion , Becaiife Ihavefinnd againjl 
 him. For to a Penitent , who has once 
 felt the Evil of Sin \ to a Penitent, 
 who bemoans in the Bitternefs of his 
 Soul , who detefts with the utmoft Ab- 
 horrence , the great and the continued 
 Outrages he has offer' d to Infinite Good- 
 nefs \ no Temporal Punifhment can ap- 
 pear too great , or too lading. He is 
 content to be miferable here, fo he may 
 be eternally happy hereafter j and 
 thinks it moft juft he fhould bear the In- 
 dignation of the Lord , becaufe he has 
 finnd againjl him. 
 
 I t is long e're God , who is flow to 
 Anger y is provok'd \ longer, e're that 
 Anger rifes to Indignation. And nothing 
 can provoke the God of Mercy to his 
 flrange Work, to Anger, but Sin : No- 
 thing can kindle his Indignation, but 
 
 Obfti- 
 
upon Pallion-Sunday. i 3 
 
 Obftinate Sin , when we do evil with 
 both hands, eamefHy, v. 3. And when 
 his Anger is provok'd , and his Indigna- 
 tion is kindled , and he begins to pu- 
 nilh \ the Original Defign of Punilh- 
 ment i in the mod Merciful God , who 
 delights not in the Death of a Sinner, is 
 to awaken him to Repentance. When 
 his Judgments are in the Land , his In- 
 tent is, that the Inhabitants JljoulJ learn 
 Righteoufnefs. When he is about to 
 ftrike with his Rod, Micah tells us, that 
 the Lord's voice cries , and the Man of 
 Wifdom fall fee thy Name. Hear ye the 
 Rod, and who hath appointed it. And 
 if there be any Men of Wifdom in the 
 City , Men that are wife to Salvation, 
 and will hear the Rod , when God calls 
 them to hear it :, and \vill rent their 
 hearts, and turn unto the Lord with fa fl- 
 ing, and weeping, and mourning, for their 
 own, and for the Nation's Sins j God is 
 gracious and merciful, fow to anger, and 
 of great kindnefs ^ he repenteth him of 
 the evil : He returns, and repents, and 
 leaves a Blejfng behind him. 5 Tis then 
 God melts into tendered Companion : 
 How II' all I give thee up, Ephraim ! 
 How fall I deliver thee, Ifrael ! My 
 Heart is turned within me , my Repent- 
 I 3 ings 
 
Ml A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 ings are kindled together. Judah had 
 no fooncr fubmitted to God , and con- 
 fefs'd the Juftnefs of her Puniihment, 
 from the Greatnefs and Continuance of 
 her Sins, but God himfelf condefcends 
 to the Penitent :, his Anger is in a mo- 
 ment becalm'd , his Indignation cool'd, 
 and all that follows is the Happy Confe- 
 rence of Judatis Repentance, and pa- 
 tient Submifiion, Which is 
 
 The Third Thing considerable 5 and 
 the laft Pofture in which the Prophet 
 draws the Church of Judah. For ha- 
 ving drawn her as a Captive , and as a 
 Penitent , he now draws her as a Con- 
 queror. In the Two former, he paint- 
 ed her Calamity , and her Behaviour 
 under it \ and now he paints her Deli- 
 verance from it \ and that in no lefs than 
 Four very Signal Mercies which God 
 vouchfaf'd her. For he pleads her 
 Canfe 5 he executes Judgment for her : 
 }{c brin (rs her forth to the Light ^ and 
 jue beholds his Righteoufnefs* 
 
 The Firft Mercy God fhews to Re- 
 formed Judah, when by her Repentance 
 his Indignation was appeas'd, is, to plead 
 h#? Cau\l\ To lie ad for the Widow , 
 
 who 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. i 3 3 
 
 who groans under the Oppreffor j the 
 Widow, who is poor, and helplefs, and 
 unable to fpeak for her felf , or to hire 
 any one to plead for her , is a great Aft 
 of Charity among Men , and recom- 
 mended as fuch in Holy Scripture. And 
 from hence we may make fome Efti- 
 mate , how great a Mercy it is in God, 
 to plead for his People. Judah had been 
 long loaded with the Reproaches and 
 Oppreflions of the Babylonians and the 
 Edomites } who, meafuring the Good- 
 nefs of their Caufe from their prefent 
 Temporal Succefs, (as the moil flagiti- 
 ous are wont to do) boafted of the Fa- 
 vours their Gods had beftow'd on them, 
 and of their own Virtue. They facrijie'd 
 to tlyeir net , and burnt bicenfe to their 
 drag ^ becaufe by them their Portion was 
 fat^ and their Meat plenteous. And in 
 the mean time , they reviPd the poor 
 Captive Jews , for the moft wicked 
 Wretches in the World , becaufe thev 
 were the moft calamitous. Judah was 
 fore'd to hear all their infolent Calum- 
 nies, and did not dare to make a Reply. 
 But God , who is wont to plead for his 
 People when they are moft destitute, 
 and their Condition is moft defoerate. 
 appears himfelf as Judah\ Advocate, 
 1 4 and 
 
134- A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 and pleads her Caufe \ pleads it from 
 Heaven , in turning all his Providential 
 Chaftifements to her Good , in making 
 it appear , that the God of Ifrael had 
 not abandoned his own Ifrael , that he 
 was (till the Lord their God :, that their 
 Enemies Succefs was not from their 
 Virtue, but from his wife Difpofal :, that 
 judak's Sins only made Babylon and E- 
 dom victorious : That he ordain d the 
 Chaldeans for Judgment , and eftablijh'd 
 them for Correction :> and fufferd for a 
 while the wicked to devour the man that 
 was more righteous than himfelf^ and 
 then pour'd a Multiplication of Woes 
 on the Devourer. That Correction was 
 only intended for Judah ^ but utter De- 
 traction for Babylon and Edom. For 
 God is not only Judah's Advocate, to 
 plead her Caufe :> but in the 
 
 Second Place, Her Avenger ^ He 
 executes Judgment for her* For as our 
 Lord puts the Queltion , and anfwers it 
 bimfelf \ Shall not God avenge his own 
 Elect , that cry day and night to him y 
 though he bear long with them } I tell 
 you r that he vi'dl avenge them fpeedily. 
 And God did avenge his people here, 
 
 lie had promised to do : / will execute 
 
 Ven- 
 
7tpon Paffion-Sunday. i 35 
 
 rut in Anger , and Fury on the 
 Heathen , fuch as they have not heard* 
 This was a tremendous Threat j and it 
 was made good, both on the Babylonian % 
 and on the Edomite. 
 
 The Babylonian affaulted Judah for 
 his Glory :, out of his Ambition of that 
 Univcrfal Monarchy which Providence, 
 to make him a Scourge to the World, 
 defign'd him. And therefore God com- 
 manded Judah to ferve the King of 
 Babylon \ and affur'd them, that if they 
 fervM bkn 9 they JJjguU live. And they 
 were to pray for the Peace of that dry ^ 
 that in the Peace thereof ^ they might 
 have Peace. So that all Judah was en- 
 join'd by God , patient Submiflion to 
 that King. They were to fubjed their 
 Perfons to the Babylonijh Government, 
 but not to proftitute their Conferences 
 to the Babylonijh Idolatry , whenfoever 
 the Commands of God, and of the King 
 of Babylon , flood in Competition. To 
 have then obeyed the King ; bad not 
 been Allegiance, butApoftafy. In fuch 
 Cafes , the true Ifraelites would always 
 be Martyrs, but never Rebels : They re- 
 folutely chofe to obey God , and pati- 
 ently to fuffer the Lion's Den 3 the fiery 
 
 Fur- 
 
 . 
 
3 6 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Furnace, and the Extremity of the King's 
 Difpleafure. 
 
 How difficult foever this Command 
 :f Patient Submiflion at firft feem'd, 
 their Security manifeftly lay in its 
 pun^ual Obfervation. For by their pa- 
 tient Submiflion , they renounced all 
 Carnal Expedients } they renounced the 
 Ann of Flefk, and put themfelves whol- 
 ly under God's immediate Prote&ion : 
 i the clofer they fhelter'd themfelves 
 r nder the Almighty's Wings , the fafer 
 ftill they were. Having put off their 
 Armour, and thrown away their Swords, 
 in entire Obedience to God } the Lord 
 of Hofts was their Guard , and their 
 Champion. Their own Human Coun- 
 fels and Attempts , might have prov'd as 
 unfuccefsful, as they were unlawful ^ and 
 might have doubled their Miferies : But 
 in God's Hands they were fafe } Putting 
 their full Truft in him, they wtrefare 
 never to be confounded. God readily 
 efpousM their Caufe \ and within about 
 50 Years after the Burning of Jem fa- 
 lem y retaliated upon Babylon all the Evils 
 fhe had brought on his People, and that 
 in a much more plentiful Meafure, than 
 ever he fuffer'd her to mete to Judah. 
 
 The 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. i } 7 
 
 The Judgment God executed for 
 his People, was in all Circumftances 
 mod remarkable. For Vengeance fur- 
 priz'd Babylon, when the Great Belfhaz- 
 %ar, and his Court and his Concubines, 
 were gorging themfelves at a Luxuri- 
 ous , Idolatrous Feaft \ drinking them- 
 felves drunk in the Veffels of the Temple^ 
 and wallowing in their own loathfome 
 Vomits. It was then the King faw the 
 fatal Hand-writing on the Wall :, At 
 which his Countenance fell , and his 
 Thoughts troubled him , and the Joints 
 of his Loins were loofed, and his Knees 
 fmote one againfl another. Then it was, 
 in the Depth of their Security , in the 
 Dead of the Night, that Belfia&xar 
 was flain, the City was taken, and Da- 
 rius feiz'd the Kingdom. The Babylo- 
 nians were deftroy'd in the Midft of a 
 Debauch \ in the Height of their Im- 
 piety they all went drunk to Hell , and 
 their Souls and Bodies perilh'd both to- 
 gether. 
 
 Thus Terrible was God's Venge- 
 ance on the Babylonians. We mull: next 
 fee , how he executed Judgment for his 
 People on the Edomites. The Edomites y 
 whofe chief Motive in Vexing Judah 
 
 was 
 
f$8 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 was pure Revenge : God himfelf ex- 
 prefly tells us fo. Thus faith the Lord, 
 becaufe that Edom hath dealt againfl 
 the Houfe of Judah , by taking Venge- 
 ance j and hath greatly offended , and 
 revengd himfelf upon them ^ therefore I 
 will make him de folate. There was no- 
 thing in the World, which did more 
 greatly offend God , and which was 
 more likely to make Edom unprofperous, 
 and obnoxious to the Fury of God's An- 
 ger , than their Revenge, For Venge- 
 ance is mine ^ I will repay , faith the 
 Lord. And when once audacious Sin- 
 ners endeavour to wreft the Sword out 
 of God's Hand, it is then Time for the 
 God of Vengeance to fiew himfelf : And 
 fo he did. For within about Five 
 Years after the Deftruftion of Jernfa- 
 lem^ God laid his Vengeance on Edom ^ 
 He executed Judgment on Edom for 
 Judah , by the Hands of the very Ba- 
 tylonians, whom they had a little before 
 aflifted to deftroy her. And the Judg- 
 ment God executed on Revengeful £- 
 dom was fo very dreadful and lading, 
 that they are emphatically call'd the 
 People , againfl whom the Lord has In- 
 dignation for ever. So little Reafon had 
 Edom to rejoice at the Babylonian Con- 
 
 queft ; 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. i 39 
 
 queft $ and fo fatally did Edom's Re- 
 venge againft Judab prove, as much her 
 Punifhment, as her Sin* 
 
 \V hen God, in refpeft of Judab*$ 
 Enemies, had, as her Advocate, plead- 
 ed her Caufe, and, as her Avenger, exe- 
 cuted Judgment, and fought for her ; 
 Judah had nothing to do , but to reap 
 the Fruits of that Victory God himfelf 
 had gain'd in her Behalf. She now re- 
 covers her entire Freedom \ and God 
 brings her forth to the Light. Hitherto 
 flie endur'd a long Night of AtRiftion, 
 with fome lightfome Gleams only to re- 
 frefh her -, now God takes her up out 
 of the Dungeon, and brings her to open 
 Day : And he brings her out , without 
 any of her own Contrivance , or En- 
 deavour 5 without any thing on her 
 Part, but Repentance and patient Sub- 
 million :, and on a fudden, to convince 
 all the World it was his own Work , it 
 was the Lord , it was only the Lor.], 
 who at the Expiration of 70 Years, 
 fund up the Spirit of Cyrus , to make 
 that Tranfporting, that Surprizing De- 
 cree, for Building the Temple, and for 
 the Reftoration of Captive Jua 
 Then was (he brought forth to 
 
 Light, 
 
140 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Light, in full Splendor ; the Dawnings 
 of which, all along, were to the faith- 
 ful Israelites , the Solace of their Capti- 
 vity, and in all their chearful Intervals, 
 the Subjed of their Songs ^ when they 
 took down their Harps from the Wil- 
 lows , and by the Waters of Babylon, 
 ftrove, with the Defcriptions of Future 
 Sion y to forget the Paft. 
 
 But fuch was the Goodnefs of God, 
 and the Care he had for his People, 
 that they Ihould love as well as fear 
 him , that he made Jitdah fee not only 
 the Juftice, but the Benignity of all his 
 Proceedings. He made her behold his 
 Righteoufnefs } which in Holy Scrip- 
 ture fignifies Benignity, or Mercifulnefs, 
 as well as Juftice. And this is the 
 Happy EfFeft of Affliction in all Devout 
 People. At firft God feems to ad fe- 
 vereiy towards them ; but the Cloud 
 by little and little vanifhes , and the 
 Light breaks in upon us :, and upon our 
 own Experience we cannot chufe but 
 fay, I know. Lord, that thy Judgments 
 are right • and that thou of very Faith- 
 fnlnefs haft canfed me to be troubled*. 
 Nor have we Reafon only to juftify 
 God, but to love him alio , for his Me- 
 dicinal 
 
upon Paffion-Sunday. 141 
 
 dicinal and Fatherly Chaftifements ^ 
 and to fay, It is good for me that I have 
 been ajjiiBed , that I tnay learn thy Sta- 
 tutes. This was Judah's Condition : 
 She faw her felf Happy , and her God 
 mod Juft , Benign and Merciful j and 
 her Happinefs being founded on Affiifti- 
 on , fhe reliih'd it the better j fhe did 
 the better tafte and fee that the Lord 
 was Gracious } fhe experimentally felt, 
 and confefs'd, and lov'd, and ador'd the 
 Right emtfnefs of God. 
 
 The Right e 01 tfnefs of God , which 
 made Penitent, Patient judab, not on- 
 ly Vi&orious but Triumphant. She 
 rode in Triumph over the once infulting 
 Babylon } In Triumph , the mod II lu- 
 ftrious that ever was } In Triumph, 
 fuch as the Good Angels kept above, at 
 the Defeat of Lucifer ; and his Apoftate 
 Spirits, when they faw the accurfed Re- 
 bels falling headlong from Heaven, 
 down to the Place of endlefs Torments, 
 and heard them Shrieking and Howling 
 all the way they fell • and the Loyal 
 Hoft in the mean time full of the 
 mighty Joys of Vi&ory, exulted in the 
 Juft Damnation of the Rebellious Le- 
 gions , and fang Triumphant Hymns to 
 the Lord of Hofts, by whofe Arm 
 
 the 
 
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 they had been Conquerors. For thus 
 the Faithful triumphed over Babylon : 
 How art thou fallen from Heaven , O 
 Lucifer ^ Son of the Morning ? So cer- 
 tain was the Vi&ory , fo glorious was 
 the Triumph , with which Penitent, 
 Patient Judah was honour'd by God, 
 who was her moft tender Advocate, to 
 plead her Caufe , her moft juft Avenger, 
 to execute Judgment for her ^ her moft 
 mighty Deliverer , to bring her forth to 
 the Light \ and her moft indulgent Pa- 
 tron , to make her behold his Righteouf- 
 nefs. 
 
 It was not a greater Confolation to 
 Penitent, Patient Judah , fo clearly to 
 behold the Right e on J hefs of God, than it 
 was a Confuiion to her Enemies to fee 
 her Reftoration , and God's Thunder- 
 bolts falling thick on their own Heads - y 
 which the Prophet has defcrib'd in the 
 following Verfe : Then foe that is mine 
 Enemy fall fee it ^ and fame fall co- 
 ver her which faid unto me, where is the 
 Lord thy God <? Mine Eyes fall behold 
 her j now (hall fe be trodden down, as 
 the mire in the flreeU 
 
 Hither 
 
upon Paffion-Sjunday, 14.^ 
 
 Hitherto I have only infilled 
 on the Cafe of Judab. And in miking 
 die Application , ( finee we have not 
 that Happinefs which Micnh had , to 
 have the King himfelf for our Auditor, 
 in whofe Royal Candor a Faithful 
 Preacher might be Cecure ) To prevent 
 all Mifreprefentations , by which the 
 moft Innocent Difcourfe , and the very 
 Scripture it felf may, by infidious Men, 
 be perverted , and charged with odious 
 Infinuations ^ I befeech you to obferve, 
 That as to Babylon, it lies in St. Johns 
 Vifions under fo many deteftable Cha- 
 racters 5 the Prophecies concerning it 
 are fo obfeure , and the Interpretations 
 of them are fo various , tome of them 
 fo uncertain , fome of them fo f >rc'd, 
 that I confefs they are Abftrufcndles 
 which I do not fumciently underfhnd, 
 and crefore forbear particularly to 
 appl> 
 
 A s to Edo'm 3 Their Father Efau is 
 made, in the New Teftament, the Idea 
 of a Prophane Perfon , of an Apafta&j 
 of one hated by God , and of a Repro- 
 bate : And God forbid I lhould beftow 
 fuch Names as thefe, on any one Com- 
 munion of Chriftians wbaffoevcr. 
 
 K But 
 
14-4- A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 B u T if we meet with any fuch in 
 the World, who profefling Chriftianity 
 in Words , do fo far deny it in their 
 Works , as to reach thofe Characters 
 which the Scripture gives of Babylon 
 and of Edom ; we are to deplore them, 
 to pray to God to turn their Hearts, 
 and to warn all People to come out from 
 them, that they be not Partakers of their 
 Sins , and that they receive not of their 
 Plagues. And whenlbever fuch Ene- 
 mies as thefe attempt the Ruin of God's 
 Church , our Saviour has taught his 
 Followers how to encounter them. Love 
 your 'Enemies :> blefs them that cur fe you \ 
 do good to them that hate you , and 
 fray for them which defpttefdly ufe you, 
 and per fe cute you.. St. John has taught 
 all Chriftians how to overcome them :, 
 by the Blood of the Lamb , by the Word 
 of their Teflimony , and by not loving 
 their Lives unto death. Judah has 
 taught all the Faithful , how to wea- 
 ther out a Captivity under them \ by 
 Repentance and Patient Submiflion. And 
 my Dcfign in this Difcourfe, is, from 
 Penitent, Patient, Refmnd Judah , to 
 draw an Example for the Reformed 
 Church of Er.pland , as far as their 
 
 Con- 
 
upon PafTion-Sunday. 145 
 
 Conditions may any Way agree, to imi- 
 tate. 
 
 F Fv o m the Example then before 
 you of Penitent Judah^ I earneftly ex- 
 hort you to a ferious and undelay'd Re- 
 pentance :, which is the Duty proper to 
 this Penitential Seafon. I exhort you 
 to repent of your great, and numerous, 
 and continued Provocations ; left they 
 bring down on the Land that Indignati- 
 on of the Lord , under which Judah, 
 becaufe Jhe hadfinnd, a&ually groaned:, 
 and which England^ becaufe jhe has fin- 
 ned^ may juftly expeft. 
 
 I Earnestly exhort you, from 
 the Example of Patient Judah , to Pa- 
 tient Submiffion :> the Duty proper for 
 this very Day, which is Pa/fion-Sitnday* 
 I exhort you to Patient Submiffion , to 
 whatever Chaftifement or Curfe God is 
 pleased to fend you. I exhort you to 
 thofe fervent Prayers and Tears , and 
 to that firm Confidence, of either Deli- 
 verance or Support , with which the 
 Patient Submiffion of Penitent Judah 7 
 and of the Primitive Saints, was always 
 accompanyM. I exhort you to Patient 
 Submiffion to God's Indignation, tho' it 
 be great, thg' it be lifting \ fince on this 
 K ? Ac- 
 
14-6 A Sermon at Whitehall, 
 
 Account, it is the more juftly proporti- 
 oned to the Greatnefs , and Perpetuity 
 of our Sins. I exhort you to bear the 
 Indignation of the Lord j to bear it, un- 
 til he pleads your Caufe :, to bear it 9 
 becaufe you have finnd againfl hhn. But 
 to learn Patient Submiflion perfe&ly , I 
 exhort you above all to the Patience of 
 Jefus -) who when he was reviled , re- 
 viled not again j when he fujferd , he 
 threatned not ^ but committed himfelf to 
 him that judgeth right eou fly. 
 
 In a word, 1 earneftly exhort you 
 to a Uniform Zeal for the Reformation ^ 
 that as, bleifed be God, you are happi- 
 ly Reformed in your Faith, and in your 
 Worlhip , you would become wholly 
 Rcform'd in your Lives. From fuch a 
 Reformation as this, we may confidently 
 hope for a Bleffing : And whatfoever 
 Enemies our Church may at any time 
 have :, fhould they be as Infulting as the 
 Babylonian, or as Revengeful as the E- 
 domite :, nay, Ihould they for a while 
 be never fo Succefsful :, yet Penitent, 
 Patient, Reform d England , may then 
 fay with Penitent , Patient , Reformed 
 Judah \ Rejoice not againfl me, mine 
 Enemy : V/hen I fall, I pal/ rife : when 
 J fit m Darknefs , the Lord jha/I be a 
 
 Light 
 
upon Paflion-Sunday. 14.7 
 
 Light unto me. I will bear the Indig- 
 nation of the herd) becaufe I havejihned 
 
 again (I him j until he plead my Caufe, 
 and execute judgment for me. He will 
 
 bring me forth to the Light * D aud I ihall 
 behold his Right eoufnefs. 
 
 Now to God, who Pleads the Caufe 
 of his Church, and Executes Judg- 
 ment for her j who brings her forth 
 to the Light , and mak^s her be- 
 hold his Righteoufnefs : To the 
 Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft , be 
 Blefling, and Glory, and Wifdom, 
 and Thankfgiving , and Honour, 
 
 and Power, 
 
 and ever. Amen. 
 
 and Might, 
 
 for ever 
 
 K 
 
 HYMNS 
 
HYMNS or ODES, 
 
 
 I. On the Annunciation. 
 
 II. Heaven. 
 
 III. On the Attrihutes of God. 
 
 IV. On Good-Friday. 
 
 V. Thirjl for Jesus. 
 
 VI. Refignation of J e s u s. 
 
'5 1 
 
 HYMNS or ODES. 
 
 In the Hymns Evangelical. 
 
 O N 
 
 The Annunciation; 
 
 Tf 
 
 L E s s * D Spirit, who from Glory did'fi: 
 
 ory did it 
 [defcend, 
 
 Thy Radiant Plumes o're Mary to 
 
 [extend, 
 
 'IT 
 
 ill, fiU'd with thy endearing, mighty Flame, 
 She Virgin-Mother of God-Man became } 
 
 Hover 
 
i<p On the Annunciation. 
 
 Hover o're me , that, quicken'd by thy Wing, 
 I the Conception of ray Lord may ling. 
 
 The Heav'jily Dove on Chaos deign'd to brood, 
 
 And hatch the World from Heaps unform'd and rude :> 
 
 When God's Foreknowledge the juft Bounds aflign'd, 
 
 Which future States and Sovereignties confin'd ^ 
 
 As his All-feeing Eye his Work furvey'd, 
 
 His Influential Beams on Canaan ftay'd } 
 
 And from thofe Beams a Show'r of Bleffings fell } 
 
 Juft here, faid he, my Ifrael fhall dwell : 
 
 Fair Olive-trees the Soil (hall overfpread, 
 
 The Vine with Clufter'd Locks adorn its Head } 
 
 V 
 From vmprefs'd Udders Floods of Milk diflil, 
 
 And od'rous Honey from each woody Hill : 
 Here, my Jerufalem, faid he, fhall ftand, 
 And in their God concenter all the Land : 
 There, Men fhall build a Temple to my Praife } 
 Defigning the whole Area with his Rays, 
 
 Then 
 
On the Annunciation. 153 
 
 Then Boundlefs Wifdom, with Oninifcient View, 
 The Happy 'Nazareth's Dimenfipns drew : 
 Juft on this Mount, faid he, my Town Fll reir j 
 The Virgin Marys Dwelling fhall be here. 
 Gabriel fhall here Devotion to Her pay y 
 Hither from Heav'n fliall be a beaten Way j 
 And in this Clofet, hallow'd by her Pray'r, 
 The Spoufe of God Incarnate, God (hall bear. 
 To Ancient Saints Great God his Will difplay'd , 
 They faw not in clear Light, but in the Shade* 
 What God of Old taught Prophets to prefage, 
 We fee fulfilPd in this thrice Happy Age. 
 
 • • 
 
 In Naz'mb dwelt a Saint, a Virgin-Wife, 
 Who led on Earth a Beatifick Life : 
 She wonder'd how Men wilfully cou'd fin j 
 As if no Child of Ada?n She had been. 
 When e're her Senfe foft needful Sleep requir'd, 
 Her waking Heart to Heav'n all Night afpir'd. 
 
 Chafle 
 
'54 
 
 On the Annunciation. 
 
 Chafte Jofeph of her Husband had the Name , 
 But for her God She kept her Virgin Flame. 
 
 The Evening Lamb which on our Altar fum'd, 
 Was by the Hallowed Fire but half confum'd, 
 When Mary rofe to Lauds, and humbly pray'd, 
 That Ifrael's Hope might not be long delayed : 
 Yet to God's Will She wou'd her own refign -, 
 Dear Lord, She faid, I have no Will but thine. 
 Then, wing'd with Pray'r, her Will to God arofe, 
 In God's high Will entirely to repofe. 
 Men, with, their Gifts, think Glorious God appeased \ 
 *Tis only with their Wills that he is pleas'd : 
 The only Off 'ring that he will accept, 
 They for their Sacrilegious felves have kept. 
 But none eVe pleas'd God more than Marfs Will, 
 Who unpolluted liv'd with mortal 111. 
 Then 'twas proclaim'd, God's Spoufals were begun ^ 
 That God wou'd be her Father, Spoufe, and Son. 
 
 At 
 
On the Annunciation. 155 
 
 At his dread Feet, as She meek Off 'ring lay, 
 Juft as her Will ingulf 'd in Gracious Ray, 
 Off dropped thofe Wings of Pray'r on which it flew, 
 As warm Defire up to Fruition grew. 
 
 The lift'ning Angels the glad Myft'ry heard, 
 And what they cou'd not comprehend, rever'd : 
 When God call'd Gabriel forth, bid him prepare 
 The Virgin to attend wrap't up in Prayer. 
 Strait for his Flight the Wings of Pray'r he chofe, 
 On which the Virgin's Will fo fwiftly rofe : 
 To fit them on his Fellow Angels tryM, 
 That with more Speed he might thro' JEther glide. 
 Oft to fly down he made Effays in vain, 
 His Wings (till bear him to the Throne again. 
 Swift-winged Pray'r to God with Vigor tends, 
 And from his Sacred Footftool ne're defcends. 
 With that, thofe Wings before the Throne he left, 
 And with his own, the Fluid JEther cleft j 
 
 And 
 
156 On the Annunciation. 
 
 And as he felt his Robes Celeftial flow, 
 
 Juft o're the Golden Altar, to and fro, 
 
 He hovers in the Vapour, and perfumes, 
 
 With Od'rous Incenfe his Refplendent Plumes : 
 
 Then thro 7 her Clofet-door he darts, and fees 
 
 The Holy Virgin fixt upon her Knees : 
 
 Fearing to interrupt her Pray'r, he waits 
 
 Till her Return from Heav'n her Height abates. 
 
 Before her lay her Father David's Book } 
 
 A Saint-like Glory brighten'd all her Look : 
 
 She recolle&ed, ftarts at Gabriel's Sight } 
 
 Who, with fubmiflive Beams, prevents her Fright. 
 
 Ha 1 l, Thou who art above all Women bleft ! 
 Hail, Thou by God lov'd of all Women beft ! 
 Thou {halt a Wond'rous Mighty Son conceive, 
 Who {kill his Father David's Throne retrieve. 
 His Name, O Gracious Name ! fiiall J e s u s be } 
 His Reign, commensurate with Eternity. 
 
 Shall 
 
On the Annunciation. 157 
 
 Shall I, faid She, conceive, who fhun Mankind, 
 Till their Converfe in Heav'n drill be rcfin'd ? 
 The Gracious Dove, faid he, his Wings fhall fpread, 
 And brood Extatick Love upon thy Head : 
 The Pow'r of God Paternal ihall come down, 
 And with his fweeteft Beams thy Temples crown : 
 Incarnate Filial God (hall fuck thy Bread ^ 
 A Myftery too great to be exprefi. 
 God Things impoffible to Men can do ^ 
 Your Coufin has conceiv'd, and fo fliall You. 
 She, who in long Reproach was barren ftil'd, 
 Shin'd on by Heav'n, has been Six Moons with Child* 
 Behold the Lord's low Handmaid, She reply 'd \ 
 May all thy Glorious Words be verify 'd. 
 
 T H e n to the Virgin flies the Spotlefs Dove, 
 And She all o're diflolves in Heiv'nly Love : 
 God to enlarge her bounded Soul takes Care, 
 That She may his Irradiations bear. 
 
 The 
 
158 On the Annunciation. 
 
 The Father infinite Complacence fliows ^ 
 Her Heart, with his Vouchfafements, overflows 5 
 Heav'n in her Womb, to lodge God Filial leaves , 
 She, in an Extafy of Love, conceives. 
 
 God Filial, when he wou'd himfelf debafe, 
 The Frailties to afliime of Human Race, 
 Was pleas'd a Virgin Mother to ele&, 
 Beft predifpos'd his Graces to refled: : 
 None e're liv'd lefs Below, or more Above, 
 Had a more humble, yet afpiring Love : 
 None more to God had facrific'd her Will , 
 Had more entire Antipathy to 111 : 
 None in their Oratory fpent more Tkne } 
 No one fang Hymns in Numbers more fublime \ 
 Than Mary ever blefs'd, whom God decreed, 
 ShouM all in Glory, as in Grace, exceed* 
 O cou'd my Spirit reach but Half that Height, 
 Which Mary gain'd in her Celeftiai Flight j 
 
 \ I then 
 
On the Annunciation. 159 
 
 I then God-Man ftiou'd in Juft Numbers praife, 
 And make the Seraphs liften to my Lays* 
 
 Soon as the Heav'nly Salutation ends, 
 And Mary from her Extafy defcends ^ 
 That in her Joys Eliza might have Share, 
 When the next Crow fhou'd call her up to Pray'r, 
 To Vifit her refolves : And e're 'twas Day, 
 Wak'd by the Cock, She Prays, and Ports away 3 
 Big with impatient Zeal, She flies to tell 
 Eliza all the Wonders her befel : 
 Who feels the Virgin's Rapture, as She fpeaks, 
 While Cryftal Drops of Joy bedew'd her Cheeks* 
 O Thou moft Bleft of Womankind, She cries, 
 Within whofe Womb the Source of Blefiinglies , 
 And next to Thee, is Poor Eliza bleft, 
 Who fees the Mother of my Lord, my Gueft 1 
 
 L At 
 
160 On the Annunciation. 
 
 At that Glad News, I fell for Joy entranced } 
 
 Within my Womb, for Joy, my Infant danc'd : 
 
 Bleft Faith , which humbly that Good News re- 
 ceives y 
 
 God fhall do all, which that firm Faith believes. 
 
 In Marys Soul deep Prints her Blefling made ^ 
 
 Who, in a Hymn, her Sacred Friend repaid. 
 
 M Y Soul, my Spirit, with exalted Voice, 
 Praife God my Saviour, and in him rejoice , 
 Who on his Handmaid fhines fo bright, that all 
 The future World muft Mary Blefled call. 
 The Mighty, Me above my Sex has rais'd , 
 His Name, which Holy is, be ever prais'd. 
 His Mercy on his Votaries defcends } 
 To Endlefs Generations it extends. 
 Strong is his Arm, and fcatters as a Cloud 
 The Vain Imaginations of the Proud : 
 
 He 
 
On the Annunciation. i6i 
 
 He puts down mighty Sinners from their Seat •, 
 He makes the meek, and humble Spirit, great : 
 He fills the empty Souls, who to him Pray , 
 And empty fends the glutted Soul away. 
 He'll no propitious Promifes evade, 
 To Abram, or to our Forefathers made. 
 He his preventing Mercy keeps in mind, 
 Which his Dear Ifrael faves, and all Mankind. 
 
 Then She her Station with Eliza fix'd - 5 
 Both oft their Souls, their Joys and Praifes mix'd ; 
 Three Tides of Sun the Moon had overflowed , 
 E're Maty left Eliza's Sweet Abode. 
 
 Thus Saints on Earth, when fweetly they con- 
 
 [verfe, 
 
 And the Dear Favours of Kind Heav'n rehearfe *, 
 
 Each feels the other's Joys : Both doubly (hare 
 
 The Bleffings, which devoutly they compare* 
 
 L - If 
 
1 62 On the Annunciation. 
 
 If Saints fuch mutual Joys feel here Below, 
 When they each other's Heav'nly Foretaftes know, 
 What Joys tranfport them at each other's Sight, 
 When they mall meet in Empyreal Height ! 
 Friends, ev'n in Heav'n, oneHappinefs wou'd mifs, 
 Shou'd they not know each other, when in Blifs. 
 
 All Praife 1 J e s u s, who, for his Repofe, 
 The Womb of the Incarnate Seraph chofe. 
 
 
 In 
 
I 62 
 
 mwfTpm 
 
 Jtf f&* J * reparatives for Death. 
 
 HEAVEN. 
 
 SST ffiBS QR Eye, Ear, Thought, can take the 
 
 |# n <§ l Hei s ht > 
 
 '^jll To which my Song is taking Flight 5 
 Yet rais'd on humble Wing, 
 My Guefs of Heav'n I'll fing. 
 
 'Tis Love's Reward j and Love is fir'd, 
 
 By Guefiing at the Blifs defir'd. 
 
 Guess then, at Saints Eternal Lot, 
 By due Confidering what 'tis not. 
 
 L 3 
 
 No 
 
1 64 HEAVEN. 
 
 No Mis'ry, Want, or Care :, 
 No Death, no Darknefs there ^ 
 
 No Troubles, Storms, Sighs, Groans, or Tears, 
 
 No Injury, Pain, Sicknefs, Fears* 
 
 There, Souls no Difappointments meet j 
 No Vanities, the Choice to cheat : 
 
 Nothing that can defile ^ 
 
 No Hypocrite, no Guile. 
 No Need of Pray'r, or what implies 
 Or Abfence, 01 Vacuities. 
 
 T h e Fv e, no ill Confcience gnaws the Breaft 
 No Tempters, Holy Souls infeft. 
 
 No Curfe, no Weeds, no Toil , 
 
 No Errors, to embroil. 
 No Luftful Thought can enter in, 
 Or Poffibility of Sin> 
 
 From 
 
HEAVEN. 165 
 
 Fro m all Vexations here below, 
 The Region of Sin, Death, and Woe. 
 Song, to your utmoft Strefe, 
 
 Now elevate vour Guefs : 
 Sing, what in Sacred Lines you read, 
 Of Blifs for Pious Souls decreed. 
 
 They dwell in Pure Extatick Light, 
 Of God Triune have Blifsful Sight \ 
 
 Of Fontal Love, who gave 
 
 God Filial, Man to Save ^ 
 Of J e s u s Love, who Death fuftainM, 
 By which the Saints their Glory gain'd. 
 
 Of Love Co-breath'd the Boundlefs Source, 
 From which Saints Love derives its Force. 
 
 Within the Gracious Shine 
 
 Of the Co-glorious Trine, 
 
 L 4 Hie 
 
66 HEAVE N. 
 
 The Saints in Happy Manfions reft, 
 Of all they can defire polled. 
 
 Saints Bodies there the Sun oat-vie, 
 Temper'd to feel the Joys on High : 
 
 Bright Body, and Pure Mind, 
 
 In Rapture Unconfin'd, 
 Capacities expand , till fit 
 Deluge of Godhead to admit, 
 
 I n All-fufficient Blifs they joy, 
 
 Duration in fweet Hymns employ : 
 With Angels they converfe, 
 Their Loves, and Joys rehearfe , 
 
 Tafte Suavities of Love Immenfe, 
 
 Of all Delights full Confluence. 
 
 With God's own Son they reign Coheirs , 
 Each Saint with him in Glory (hares : 
 
 Like 
 
HEAVE N. 167 
 
 Like Godhead , Happy, Pure, 
 
 Againft all Change fecure, 
 In Boundlefs Joys they Sabatize j 
 Which Love Triune will Eternize. 
 
 By Boundlefs Love, for Souls refin'd, 
 Are Joys unfpeakable defign'd : 
 
 When I thofe Joys imbibe, 
 
 I then may them defcribe. 
 Joys to full Pitch will Hymn excite, 
 When from Senfation I endite. 
 
 In 
 
i68 
 
 In the Hymns on the Attributes of God. 
 
 I M M E N S IT Y. 
 
 $$%%%-0&D y for thy Vot'ries thou haft Win^s 
 SLft ■ _ [decreed, 
 
 W9$VV To mount with Eagles Speed : 
 
 But Eagles fly too flow I fear, 
 
 For my long Paflage o're the Sphere : 
 
 Give me the Vig'rous Plumes, 
 
 Which Wealth unblefs'd aftumes, 
 
 When it the Mifer's Coffers leaves, 
 
 And of Evanid Wealth the Wretch bereaves : 
 
 Or give me Wings, on which a Heav'n-born Mind 
 
 Afcends to Blifr, leaving its Clog behind : 
 
 Or 
 
I M M E N S 1 Til 169 
 
 Or give me thofe, on which the Morning fli 
 With inftantaneous Motion o're the Skies ^ 
 
 Or Wings like thofe of that fwift Wind, 
 On which God Hew, when Vengeance was defign'd. 
 
 T o fix my Wings, my Guardian, is your Part *, 
 Now fixt, my Soul fhall fetch a Heaven-ward Start. 
 Refolv'd I am to try, 
 The Sphere of God's All-feeing Eye j 
 To Heav'n I mounted j fearch'd the Manfions round, 
 And Rays Divine in every Manfion found. 
 
 No Saint is there, 
 But in God's Blifsful Prefence has a Share. 
 Then down to deepeft Hell I fteer 5 
 Sure God, faid I, cannot be here : 
 They in Defpair and Torment lie, 
 
 And God defie : 
 Yet God was ev'n in lowed Hell, 
 To awe the Fiends who wou'd Rebel } 
 
 Nor 
 
1 70 1 M M E N S IT T. 
 
 Nor Damn'd, nor Devils, durfl: blafpheme , 
 They trembled at his awful Beam. 
 
 Then to the Ocean I my Flight direcl ^ 
 But while the Ocean I infpecl, 
 As the Vafl Fluid rolls, 
 God ev'ry Wave controlls ^ 
 When Saints to him in Tempefts cry, 
 He ftill is nigh. 
 I next pafs'd thro' the Subterraneous Pores, 
 Where Nature her hid Treafure ftores , 
 There I Great God behold, 
 For Tryals giving, or retraining Gold. 
 I entred all Earth's Lonely Caves, 
 I traversed all the Land of Graves :, 
 God there keeps drift Account of Human Duft, 
 And can each Atom to its Site adjuft. 
 In Horrid Night, 
 When Moon and Stars with-heid their Light, 
 
 I trv'd 
 
I M M E N S IT T. 171 
 
 I try'd my felf to fhroud, 
 Within the thickeft Cloud : 
 'Twas Darknefs, which I cou'd like Egypt feel ^ 
 No Darknefs yet cou'd me from God conceal : 
 But by his Omniprefent Ray, 
 He Blackeft Darknefs turn'd into Meridian Day. 
 
 O u T of this Globe, I then God's Prefence trace, 
 
 Thro' all imaginable Space. 
 Before he on the World his Pow'r employ 'd, 
 His All-fufficient Self he there en joy 'd 3 
 This Narrow World his Prefence cannot bound, 
 God can innumerable Worlds compound : 
 And fhou'd he all the Sandy Grains, 
 The Univerfe contains, 
 Turn to New Worlds, as fpatious as the Old ^ 
 In all thofe Worlds, he wou'd his Face unfold. 
 Shou'd his Almighty PowV, 
 Create New Worlds each Hour , 
 
 No 
 
17a IMMENSITT. 
 
 No Numbers, his One EfTence can divide ^ 
 God never can be multiply 'd : 
 His Single Eye, 
 Into unnumbered Worlds co-evally can pry. 
 
 When my fwift Wings, and Eyes, were tir'd, 
 
 My Soul, my Organs reinfpir'd ^ 
 My felf at laft I refurvey'd, 
 And there of God Difcov'ries made : 
 
 God, in the Womb our whole Contexture fees, 
 
 He builds us into Bodies by Degrees , 
 
 He forms Bones, Mufcles, Art'ries, Veins, 
 The Embrio, in the Womb fuftains , 
 Thro' ev'ry foft Canal, 
 Makes Vital Spirits fail ^ 
 
 And when the Frame is habitable grown, 
 A Spirit breathes to keep the Throne. 
 God, from the Moment we draw Breath, 
 Superintends us till our Death : 
 
 Our 
 
I M M E N S I T r. i ? 3 
 
 Our Thoughts he fees before they ftart, 
 All the firft Movements of the Heart * 
 Our Words, when unarticulated, hears ^ 
 Sees when our Inclination from him veers : 
 Obferves each Step we tread, 
 Notes our Behaviour in our Bed , 
 Before, behind, around, within, 
 He marks the Rife, and Growth of Sin. 
 Nor Men nor Devils can his View evade \ 
 All Secrets, to God's Eye, are in true Lights difplayd. 
 
 S i N c e all I Think, Speak, Will, or Do, 
 Lie open to God's View ^ 
 
 Th' habitual Thought that God is near, 
 Excites an awful Joy, and tender Fear. 
 I fear, when I on my paft Sins reflett, 
 
 And Aggravations recoiled ^ 
 How the foul Sins my Shame fromMen wou'd hide, 
 In God's Omnifcience regiftred abide. 
 
i 7 4- t M M EN SIT f. 
 
 I joy, in an Almighty, Prefent Aid, 
 
 When e're Temptations me invade ^ 
 I joy, that my Deliverer is nigh, 
 
 When I in Danger to him fly : 
 
 I joy, in God's Paternal Care, 
 Who counts my Tears, and anfwers ev'ry Pray'r. 
 God's Prefence makes High Heaven aBlifsful Seat } 
 
 'Twou'd not beHeav'n, fhou'd God retreat : 
 And Saints, who God by fweet Experience know- 
 Still prefent with their Souls, enjoy aHeav n below. 
 
 
 In 
 
■75 
 
 
 ~<w.yt 
 
 Kg ; 
 
 Erie 
 
 ft 
 
 J« */6f Hymns on the Vcflivals. 
 
 O N 
 
 CO V-F R I D AT. 
 
 't^SoNO of Jes.js I defign, 
 &, A 5% But ftumble at the Leading; Line 
 
 J ^ J^ Of J e s u s Paffion I wouM fin*, 
 And for this Day's Oblation bring j 
 But cannot the Difpute decide, 
 'Twixt Grief and Love, which me divide; 
 
 When Jesus Sufferings I view , 
 And know mv felf to be the /vir, 
 
 M 
 
 Whefc 
 
1 76 On GOO'D-FRIVAT. 
 
 Whofe Sins created all the Woe, 
 God Flelh afTusa'd to undergo ; 
 I dread my Guilt } and in my Eyes, 
 Of Tears I feel Two Fountains rife. 
 
 R u t when Sweet J e s u s to my Sight, 
 Appears in a Salvifick Light \ 
 Where on the Crofs he fufFers Pain, 
 That I may Blifs Eternal gain # 5 
 O ! then my Heart with Love runs o're, 
 And is inclin'd to grieve no more. 
 
 W h i l e thus my Soul is at a Bay, 
 Which of the Paflions me lhall (way, 
 Mind, on a fudden intervenes, 
 And with fweet Temper both ferenes : 
 She promifes She'll both permit, 
 And, to keep Pence, their Umpire fit. 
 
 MlNB 
 
On GOO'D'VRI'DAT. 
 
 Mind bids mc Grief and Love unite, 
 And then from both a Song endite : 
 For Hallow *d Grief from Love is bred 5 
 Love only Grateful Tears can fhed : 
 Love, for Offending Love Immenfe, 
 Lefs eying Vengeance, than Offence. 
 
 T o Love entirely, then my Mind 
 
 The Condud of my Tears refign'd ^ 
 
 And, from the Garden, I began 
 
 To trace the Sufferings of God-Man i 
 
 I felt, into foft Tear devout 
 
 Love at firft Entrance burfting out, 
 
 IKept it lively in my Mind, 
 That God and Man in Jesus join'd i 
 That Godhead ev'ry Soul foreknows, 
 For whom the Manhood fuffers Woes ; 
 
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i 7 8 On GOO'D-FRIV AT. 
 
 And while his Pains my Ranfom bought, 
 I, and my Sins, were in his Thought. 
 
 Mind cou'd no Pang of J e s u s fee, 
 
 But ftill {he cry'd, it is for me : 
 
 I the Inflammative received, 
 
 And all the way both lovM and grieved : 
 
 God-Man for me enduring Smart, 
 
 Both delug'd, and infhm'd my Heart. 
 
 I S A w Incarnate God at Pray V, 
 With awful, yet enam'ring Air : 
 Each Tear Paternal God endear'd, 
 He humbly lov'd, he fweetly fear'd } 
 He kneel'd, fell proftrate on the Ground, 
 Afpir'd with Ardency profound. 
 
 Complaint of inward Grief he made , 
 I few dire Pangs his Soul invade : 
 
 With 
 
On GOO'D-FRI'DAT. 179 
 
 With Tears he ofTer'd up ftrong Cries j 
 Ah ! then I few him Agonize : 
 Ah ! I beheld the Surface wet, 
 With Droppings of his bloody Sweat. 
 
 He his own Load forefaw :, had Senfe 
 Of Sin, and of God's Wrath Immenfe } 
 And pray'd, that he the Cup might wave, 
 If a lefs Price Laps'd Man wou'd fave : 
 Yet to his Father's Will refign'd, 
 Content to Suffer for Mankind. 
 
 ILov'd, and griev'd at J E S U S Pain, 
 1 faw him for my Sins fuftain j 
 Yet only ey'd the outward Part, 
 And cou'dn't reach his DoProus Heart I 
 His Sorrows there none ever knew ^ 
 Too Infinite for bounded View. 
 
 M 3 With 
 
i8o On GOQT>-FRIVAT. 
 
 With Grief his Pray'r grew fo intenfe, 
 
 Methought his Godhead in Safpenfe -, 
 
 Withheld Confolatory Beam, 
 
 That Agony might be extreme. 
 
 Of fuch Sufpenfe, # what Heart can guefs 
 
 The Unconceivable Diftrefs ! 
 
 G o d fent an Angel from the Throne, 
 With fweet Supports to eafe- his Moan. 
 And fince He fuffer'd in the Place 
 Of Adam's Univerfal Race, 
 We judge his Woes proportioned were 
 To all the Guilt he deign'd to bean 
 
 To God as he refign'd his Will, 
 He rofe to meet approaching 111 : 
 1 flood the Traytor to behold, 
 Who for vile Price his Matter fold ; 
 
 I faw 
 
 
On G OO'D-FRI'DAT. iS t 
 
 I faw God-Man, from Lips impure, 
 With Patience meek a Kifs endure. 
 
 I Saw the arm'd, inhuman Rands, 
 Stretch tow'rds God-Man audacious Hands : 
 His Voice fttuck all to E:irth with Dread j 
 He fufPring each to raife his Head, 
 They him, when bound, to Annas drew, 
 While from their Lord his Votaries flew. 
 
 With Jcivs was Icagu'd Intern al PowY, 
 Curs'd Satan knew the fatal Hour j 
 His Legions he reviewed, and all 
 The Devils, to revenge their Fall, 
 Blafpheming, vow'd with utmoft Might, 
 On God's Lov'd Son to wreak their Spite. 
 
 My Love began frefli Tears to (lied, 
 When Jesus was to Ca'apbas led. 
 
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iHi On GOO'D-FRIVAT. 
 
 With the High-Prieft the Council join'd j 
 All in his Violent Death combined. 
 With envious Rage I faw them fwell, 
 All un^ppeafable as Hell^ 
 
 With Bufferings they him aflail'd j 
 His Face they fpit on, and then veiPd } 
 Bid him by Prophecy difclofe, 
 Which was the Hand that gave the Blows-. 
 Shame, mixt with Pain in all his Woe, 
 lib which from Sin Co-eval flow. 
 
 T o Pilate next they drag him bound. 
 
 With cruel Clamours him (unround , 
 
 The Pagan the Accused acquits, 
 
 And (Irak to Hero J him tranfmits. 
 
 He and his Guards, Meek Jesus made 
 
 Then; Scorn, and in Mock White array 'd. 
 
 To 
 
On GQO'D-FRI'DjIT. 183 
 
 To Pilate, back they Jesus fcnt ^ 
 He, Jewifb Malice to prevent, 
 JVjpos'd, that Jesus, at the Feaft ? 
 Might be the Criminal released : 
 Bat for a Murderer they cry ^ 
 Bar abb as free, let J e s u s dye. 
 
 M y Love, my Tear, now higher rife. 
 Incarnate God is in your Eyes, 
 Ty'd to a Pillar, naked ftripp'd, 
 By unrelenting Soldiers whipp'd : 
 His Sacred Flefh is wound all o're 5 
 His Blood is Streams, 'twas Rills before. 
 
 Thus bleeding, witfi redoubled Rage, 
 They chufe the Common Hall their Stage : 
 They Crown him with a Wreath of Thorn, 
 With a Mock Furple Robe adorn , 
 
 For 
 
184. On GOOV-VRIVAT. 
 
 For Sceptre, they provide a Reed, 
 And to infult him all agreed. 
 
 With bended Knee, Hail King, they cry'd 5 
 Spat on his Face, and Mock'ries vy'd : 
 Then took the Reed, and fmote his Crown, 
 To make the Thorns fink deeper down. 
 To Jews, God-Man, thus full of Woes, 
 To move their Pity, Pilate fhows. 
 
 The Hell-infuriated Crowd, 
 Reiterate Crucify, aloud : 
 On our own Heads, and Race, the Guilt 
 Shall reft, foon as his Blood is fpilt. 
 And Pilate, by their Threats inclined, 
 The Guiltlefs to their Rage confign'd. 
 
 My Love, my Tear, your Force coll^cl, 
 You now muft on the Crofs refled ; 
 
 There 
 
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 On G O'D-FRl'DAT. 185 
 
 There Pain, and Shame, are at full Strefs, 
 And for my Sins God-Man opprefs. 
 See, he begins the dol'rous Way, 
 From Pilate's Houfe, to Golgotha* 
 
 H 1 s Sacred Head with f Thorn is crown'd ^ 
 His bleeding Furrows dye the Ground : 
 In his own Garments he's array 'd j 
 His Ponderous Crofs is on him laid : 
 With Bleeding faint, o'rewhelm'd with Woes, 
 Beneath his Load he trembling goes. 
 
 A H ! now he finks :> and to fuftain 
 His Burthen, Simon they conftrain. 
 Love wilh'd her felf had then been feiz'd, 
 Her fafPring Saviour to have eas'd. 
 My Love, my Tear, you now muft count 
 The Dolours felt on Calvary Mount. 
 
 + We do not read it was taken ojf* 
 
 iNSTEAg 
 
186 On GOOT>-FRI ( DAT. 
 
 Instead of the accuftom'd Wine, 
 They offer a Mock Anodyne : 
 For wonted Myrrhe, malicious Jews 
 The mod embittering Gall infufe. 
 No Anodyne Blefs'd Jesus knew, 
 But Will Divine j and Lips withdrew. 
 
 Between Two Thieves he thither came, 
 To ftigmatize him with their Shame : 
 Then naked, to augment his Woe, 
 Him on the Crofs fupine they throw -, 
 Nail Hands and Feet, with Gorings pain'd, 
 Unfluice his Blood, till now undrein'd. 
 
 The Crofs between the Thieves they raife : 
 Soon as the Crowd upon him gaze, 
 They wag their Heads, mock, grin, blafpheme, 
 With Ragings various and extreme : 
 
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On GO O'D-FRI'D AT. 187 
 
 He patient, for Tormentors pray'd, 
 With Gracious Yearnings Hate repaid. 
 
 O f Thieves, the Bad 'gainft Jesus rav'd } 
 The Good, his Pity meekly crav'd : 
 Blefs'd Jesus fpake, immenfely prone 
 To eafe a Penitential Moan ^ 
 * Thy Soul, the Angels (hall this Day, 
 To Paradife with me convey. 
 
 While Jesus on the Crofs was nail'd, 
 The Sun, in Clouds, its Splendor veiTd \ 
 At the Eclipfe of Fontal Light, 
 Fear'd it fhou'd never more be bright. 
 In Shame, and Pain, Three Hours he hung, 
 Shot thro' with Darts of Venom'd Tongue. 
 
 * 16. LUKE 22. 
 
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188 On GOOT>-FRI ( DAT. 
 
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 M y Love, my Tear, you weeping fee 
 The Virgin Mother near the Tree , 
 O learn of Her to Love, and Weep, 
 And J e s u s in your Heart to keep. 
 Yet ev'n her tender Love, and Tear, 
 Reach'd only Woes She faw appear; 
 
 The Length, the Breadth, the Depth, the Height 
 
 Of inward Woe tranfcended Sight. 
 
 Ah ! cou'd our elevated Eye 
 
 Into his Dol'rous Spirit pry 5 
 
 A Sorrow infinite is there, 
 
 No Speech Angelick can declare* 
 
 f M A D Dogs, from the Infernal Dark, 
 About the Crofs of J e s u s bark , 
 
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On G 00 'D-FRI'DAT. 189 
 
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 Their Foam they in Suggeftions vent, 
 And all his inward Pangs foment ^ 
 And yet their ftudy'd utmoft Spite, 
 No one repining cou'd excite. 
 
 My God, my God, I agonize ^ 
 Why doft thou me forCtke, he cries > 
 Ne're fincc the World began, was known 
 Such an Immenfe, Heart-breaking Groan. 
 God-Man ne're made Complaint in vain \ 
 Twas byt proportioned to his Pain. 
 
 Reflux of Godhead him relieves \ 
 'Tis but fhort Time Blefs'd Jesus grieves : 
 Yet that Ihort Time God's Mercy fways, 
 Man's Ranfom to his Juftice pays, 
 Since God's Co-equal undergoes 
 The Quintefccnce of Sinners Woes. 
 
 Pater- 
 
i 9 o On GOO<D~FRIT>AT. 
 
 Paternal God's Co-boundlefs Son, 
 For Sinners now his All has done : 
 His Head he to his Father bends, 
 His Soul into his Hands commends ^ 
 And fweetly breathing out his laft, 
 Into his Father's Bofom pafs't. 
 
 The God of Life gave up the Ghoft : . 
 Amazed flood th* Angelick Hod. 
 Curs'd Fiends were lalh'd to treble Pain > 
 The Temple Veil was rent in Twain : 
 Earth quak'd :> back flew the Ocean Waves j 
 Rocks cleft, and open ftood the Graves* 
 
 The Good Centurion Jesus own'd ^ 
 The very Crowd his Woes bemoan'd : 
 And of his Death all Doubt to clear, 
 His Shle was wounded with a Spear : 
 
 That 
 
On GOO'D-FRIVAT. 191 
 
 That Wound the Jewifi Outrage clos'd\ 
 And then He in his Grave repos'd* 
 
 SooMad faw Blefs'd Jesus dead, 
 I found fad Tear from Love was fled : 
 Love left alone, with Joy beheld 
 His Shame, his Angors now difpell'd : 
 With that She call'd to Hymn for Aid 7 
 In Song, his Loves She refurvey'd. 
 
 All Praife be to Incarnate God, 
 Who for my Sake the Wine-prefs trod : 
 Who, in Pure Boundlefs Love inclin'd, 
 To give his Life for Laps'd Mankind : 
 Who Miferies Immenfe endur'd, 
 That I might live from all fecur'd. 
 
 M A y I, like BlefTed Paul, to know 
 Dear Jesus, my Choice Hours beftow ? 
 
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i9* On GOO'D-FRIVAT. 
 
 The Crofs is the fole Book I need, 
 In that, All-faving Truths I read 
 God's Attributes all Harmonized -, 
 Evanid Wealth, Pomp, Joys defpis'd. 
 
 Man's Heinous Guilt apparent made, 
 For which the Blood of God was paid. 
 Sin's Curs'd Attendants, Pain and Shame, 
 With Horrors of Infernal Flaifle ^ 
 Death, and the Terrors of the Grave, 
 From which God-Man cou'd only favel ' 
 
 All Graces which adorn the Mind , 
 An ardent Love, a Will refign'd , 
 A Lamb-like Meeknefs, Confcience clean, 
 A Patience humble, and ferferte 5 
 Obedience conftant, and fincere , 
 Undaunted Courage, Filial Fear : 
 
 Large 
 
On GOO'D-FRIVAT. m 
 
 Large Chanty, a Temper fwcet, 
 All Men like Brethren prone to treat : 
 Devotion fix'd, a Zeal right-aim'd, 
 Self-holocauft, all Paflions tam'd ; 
 I, with all thefe, and num'rous more, 
 From Jesus Crofs, my felf may {lore. 
 
 Lord, in thy Crofs is all my Truft j 
 I'll Crucify all Senfual Guft : 
 And if thou caU'ft me to the Stake, 
 Help me to Suffer for thy Sake ! 
 Thy Crofs 1*11 daily keep in Eye, 
 And learn from that, to Love and Dye. 
 
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 Thirfl. for JESUS. ] 
 
 l?^8i Thirst, I thirfl: } O cool me, for I 
 
 §» i ' «£• L burn i 
 
 ISi>2iI My very Bones will into Cinders turn *, 
 While to be from thee, Jesus, 'tis thy Will, 
 Who only can a Mind unbounded fill. 
 O (hew me fome Cool Fountain, where I may 
 My Third ineffable for Thee allay. 
 
 Shoij'dI fuck all the Moifture from the Flow'rs, 
 Or fhou'd I drink up all the April Show'rs, 
 Or bathe my felf ail o're in Morning Dew, 
 Yet ftill my Third my Ardours wou'd renew, 
 Shou'd I pick all Engaddis Clufter'd Vines, 
 Or drink up all the Spoufe's Gen'rous Wines } 
 Nor Grapes, nor Wines, wou'd give my Spirit Eafe , 
 They wou'd my Third enrage, but not appeafe. 
 
 Shou'd 
 
Tbirft for f E S US. 19$ 
 
 Shou'd I at Bethletns Fountain rill my Cup ^ 
 Shou'd I, like Belfmotb, drink all Jordan up : 
 Or live Three Days, like Jonas, in the Wave, 
 And with my parched Tongue the Billows lave : 
 Shou'd Fountains, Rivers, Oceans thro' me flow, 
 I yet away from all fhou'd thirfty go. 
 Shou'd I, like Noah's Dove, range all about, 
 With the yaft Deluge ftrive to quench my Draught, 
 And drink the Univcrfe of Waters dry 3 
 Back to the Ark I yet fhou'd thirfty fly. 
 Shou'd I my Wings beyond the Eagle's rear, 
 And build my Neft above the Starry Sphere 3 
 Thence to the Streams SuperceLftial foar, 
 And drink up all th' Unfathomable Store ; 
 Back to my Neft I thirfty fhou'd retire, 
 My Soul to Vafter Oceans wou'd afpire. 
 
 No Hart, by fwallowing angry Vipers fir'd, 
 No panting Hart, by Huntfmen chaf 'd and tir'd j 
 
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i 9 6 Tbhft fir JESUS. 
 
 No Hart, that in Arabian Defarts ftrays, 
 With fuch a Thirft, for a Cool Fountain brays. 
 Not Sychar, when, in a Triennial Dearth, 
 The Sun had burn'd to Aflies all the Earth *, 
 Not Egypt, when the Nile forbears to flow, 
 E're fuch a Thirft as I, did undergo. 
 
 In vain o're Earth, or Heavenly Orbs I fly , 
 My Jesus only can my Want fupply. 
 But Jesus dwelling in his Bright Retreat, 
 How fhall I reach his Empyreal Seat ? 
 The Loves, the Beauties which in him combine, 
 All the High Glories which in J e s u s fhinc. 
 Innumerable Strong Defires excite, 
 Which will to Blifs accelerate my Flight : 
 I with more Wings (hall fweep the Heav'nly Coaft, 
 Than are in the fix- wing' d Seraphick Hoft. 
 With the Lamb ilain, both in my Lips and Heart, 
 I'll tow'rds my J e s u s take a Vig'rous Start : 
 
 With 
 
Tbirft for JESUS. 197 
 
 With all my Wings ftretchM out, full Speed I'll fly j 
 He will not, cannot, fhall not me deny. 
 Jesus my Third fhail quench, but not abate j 
 In Quenching it, he will freih Third create. 
 Dear Third, which with Satiety is join'd, 
 Tho* redlefs, unaffli&ing to Mankind , 
 Till my Soul fhall to Full Fruition foar, 
 And Drinking at the Source, can third no more. 
 
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 Refignation of J E S U S. 
 
 fSTM2|0 N G I with God for Mafteries had try'd, 
 g L *| Antartick Wills in me for Empire 
 
 My Rational, to Heav'n alone inclined, 
 
 My Senfualj with the World, and Satan joyn'd. 
 
 God,Grace,Heav n, Reafon, Confcience, Inward Peace, 
 
 All ftrove, me from my Tyrant to releafe -, 
 
 Laps'd Nature, the vain World, and Pow'rs of He^ 
 
 And Senfual Pleafures, mov'd me to rebeil, 
 
 My Soul well nigh had my Defence betray'd, 
 
 And to my Foe I had been Captive made, 
 
 But God, with a compaflionatjng Eye, 
 
 Bid my good Angel fpeedy Aids fupply, 
 
 M Y Guardian, who a while to Heav'n had Flown 
 
 To' fipg his Courfe at the Triunal Throne, 
 
 E're 
 
Refignation of jf R S U S. 199 
 
 E're down to my Deliverance He flew, 
 
 From Beatitick Sight a Copy drew. , 
 
 The BlefTed there, Things paft, or future fee, 
 
 Recorded in Completion, or Decree. 
 
 But no Idea cafts a Beam fo clear. 
 
 No one to God fo infinitely dear, 
 
 As that of J e s u s in Eternal Mind 
 
 When to his Father's, He, his Will refign'd. 
 
 Down with that copy'd out, my Angel came, 
 
 Whofe Lovelinefs a Judas might cnflame. 
 
 Scarce to my Sight the Copy He prefents, 
 But inftantly my ftubborn Heart relents. 
 I faw God-Man fall proftrate on his Face j 
 No Sight cou'd more a Sinner's Pride debafe. 
 With Ardour unconceivable He pray'd, 
 When He the Horrors of the Crofs furvey'd 3 
 His Eyes ran down, and all his Body o're 
 Was bath'd in Drops of Agonizing Gore. 
 
 None 
 
loo Rejignation of J E S U S. 
 
 None but God-Man fuch Dolours cou'd fuftain , 
 
 And in Extremity 'of bitt'reft Pain, 
 
 This Pray'r He ofFer'd to the Throne Divine, 
 
 Father ! not my WW, be done^ but thine. 
 The fweet Ejaculation pierc'd my Heart, 
 There deeply ftuck the Soul-enam'ring Dart. 
 Thence in my Will I felt Repugnance ceafe, 
 
 1 threw my Weapons down, and fued for Peace. 
 Began all my Rebellions to repent, 
 
 And thus my Spirit (when contrite) took vent. 
 
 Lord, to our Frailties thou wou'dft fubjed be, 
 
 Thou didft poffefs two Wills, diftinft, like me. 
 
 Thy Will Superior y thy dread Father ey'd, 
 
 And Senfe to thy Inferior was the Guide. 
 
 Thy Spirit, of thy Flefli ftill kept the Rein, 
 
 Thou, thy iirft Inclinations could'ft reftrain. 
 
 Could'ft regularly gratify thy Senfe, 
 
 And with no Thought inordinate difpenfe. 
 
 Thou 
 
Refignation of f E S U S. 201 
 
 Thou of a tender, (oft, and perfed Make, 
 Didft of our Weaknefs, not our Sin partake. 
 Thy perfed Temper wou'd thy Frame expofe, 
 To raoft acute, nice, Senfe of Pain and Woes. 
 And 'tis impoflible for Man to guefs, 
 The bitter Foretafts of thy laft Diftrefs. 
 Nor thy pure Will, nor thy nice Senfe of Pain, 
 Could Self-indulgence, or Self-Pity gain. 
 Thou Self-Contempt didft pradife, and inftill, 
 Didft do, and fuffer, thy dread Father's Will. 
 Thou didft thy fpotlcfs Human Will deny, 
 Chufe Torment, with thy Father to comply. 
 What perfect Self-Annihilation then, 
 Shou'd damp the Vitious Wills of Sinful Men > 
 
 The Angel held the Picture ftill in View, 
 That I, my Meditations might renew. 
 The Will of J e s u s, I compar'd with mine j 
 My Will impure, thus driving to refine. 
 
 Permit 
 
aoi Rejignation of f E S U S. 
 
 Permit me, Father, like thy Deareft Son, 
 To cry, Not Mine, but Thy Sole Will be done. 
 Not Mine, for I am blind j and what to chufe, 
 What to defire, I know not, or refufe : 
 I 111, may Good , and Bitter, Sweet may think } 
 Miftake my Antidote, and Poifon drink. 
 But Thine be done ^ for Thou Omnifcient art, 
 To know the Wants, and Soundings of my Heart. 
 Not Mine j for if to make Right Choice I knew, 
 My Weaknefs might not that Right Choice purfue : 
 My Nature is as impotent, as blind j 
 I cannot Ad the Good I have Defign'd. 
 But Thine : For 'tis by thy Sole Mighty Aid, , 
 That Frail, Laps'd Nature, e're thy Law obey'd. 
 Not Mine : For had I Strength, my Will perverfe 
 May my Propenfions in the World immerfe j 
 Antipathies againft Thee may maintain, 
 And weigh me tow'rds my Everlafting Bane ; 
 
 But 
 
Rejignation of jF E S U S. io% 
 
 But Thine •, for Thou Perverfenefs canft controul, 
 And fweetly turn a Sin-diftorted Soul. 
 Not Mine j for I fhou'd on my felf depend, 
 Grow Proud, or too Prefumptuous, to amend : 
 But Thine •, for Thou canft Haughty Hearts debafe 
 To Humble Beggars, for thy flighted Grace. 
 Not Mine •, for I thy Bleflings may abufe, 
 And into ev'ry Grace Self-love infufe : 
 But Thine : Thou my Intentions canft direct, 
 And raife them, thy folc Glory to refped. 
 Not Mine j for when my Crofs I up fhou'd take, 
 I may affrighted fly, and Thee forfake : 
 But Thine : Thou canft the heavieft Crofs endear, 
 And breathe Vidorious Love, devoid of Fear. 
 Not Mine j for I, unliable as the Wind, 
 May covet Change, and hate to be confin*d : 
 But Thine : Thou doft Unchangeable abide, 
 And canft light Spirits fix, who wou'd backflide. 
 Not Mine •, for I to Luft may turn a Slave, 
 Fond of my Chains, may no Redemption crave 
 
 But 
 
ao4 Refignation of JESUS. 
 
 But Thine : For Thou my Freedom canft reftore, 
 And make me relifh what I loath'd before. 
 
 Thine, Lord ^ Thou by Creation haft the Right 
 To Rule the Work of thy All-quick'ning Might. 
 Thine, Lord ^ Thou art the Potter, I, the Clay, 
 Cannot the Form Thou giveft me gainfay. 
 Thine, Lord # :> for Thou my Father wilt be ftil'd, 
 And thy foft Bowels yearn upon thy Child. 
 Thine, Lord , Thee my Dear Saviour I efteem, 
 Compaflionating all Thou didft Redeem. 
 Tttine, Lord , Thee my fole Comforter I own j 
 To fhed Celeftial Love Thou ftill art prone. 
 Thine, Lord ^ for Thou my Sure, Almighty Friend, 
 To all my Wants wilt timely Succours fend. 
 Thine ,Lord }Thy Sceptre the whole World o're-awes, 
 Can force Submiffion, which it fweetly draws. 
 Thine, Lord -, Thy Truth can never me deceive, 
 Or Boundlefs M$rcy me unpity'd leave. 
 
 Thine, 
 
 
Rcfigmnirm of JESUS. 205 
 
 Thine, Lord :, Thy Wifdom never me mifguides - y 
 Thy Gracious Prefence ftill with me abides. 
 
 My Heart {hall humbly, Lord, thy Will attend, 
 Ambitious only never to offend : 
 O keep my Will meek, du&ile, and fedate, 
 The fame in a Serene, or Stormy State. 
 
 Father, chufe what Thou wou'dft have me be, 
 In Danger, or Secure, Enflav'd, or Free j 
 
 In Confolation , or affliding Grief, 
 Wealthy, or deftitute of all Relief : 
 Give Life, or Death, give Health, or a Difeafe, 
 Succefs, or Difappointment, Pain, or Eafe j 
 I'll welcome ev'n Defertions when I pray, 
 Not murmur at Denial, or Delay : 
 Send Perfection, Torture, or Difgrace, 
 
 1 gladly will thy bitt'relt Crofs embrace. 
 
 'Tis by thy Gracious Will thy Martyrs bleed , 
 And thy Supports, their Agonies excee<£ 
 
 Thou 
 
206 Rejignation of JESUS. 
 
 Thou, Lord, not I, wilt fuffer the Diftrefs, 
 While our two Wills, in Thine, (hall coalefce. 
 
 I C h u s e, my God ! all Thou haft predefin'd j 
 My very Death, its Time, Place, Manner, Kind : 
 I'll welcome Pangs, in which I fhall expire j 
 Chrift-like refign'd, to die is my Defire. 
 In Thee alone my Spirit is at Reft j 
 Thy Will be done \ Thy Will is ever beft. 
 I'll from my Bofom all Self-will expel j 
 Self-will, the fruitful Sin, which Peoples Hell : 
 In the Bleft Saints, in all the Hofts Divine, 
 Throughout all Heav'n, there is no Will but Thine* 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 THefe Hymn s,&c. are not Picitd out, tojkeio 
 the Bejl Side of the Author : For I know no 
 Difference in Him throughout, but for the Variety of 
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