700 Ill-timed counsel. Bid a sick man in sadness make his will; Conceit and grief an eager combat fight; 35-i. 1. What wit sets down, is blotted straight with will; I told ye all, Poems. When we first put this dangerous stone a rolling, 'Twould fall upon ourselves. 703 Passion. 25-v. 2. Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves. 704 Reconciliation. 22-v. 1. The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts, 705 Mercy. 24-ii. 2. How shalt thou hope for mercy, rend'ring none? Farewell: The leisure and the fearful time 9-iv. 1. Which so-long-sunder'd friends should dwell upon. 707 Benediction. 24-v. 3. What heaven more will d That thee may furnish, and my prayers pluck down, Fall on thy head! 708 The same. Prosperity be thy page! c Gen. xlii. 21, 22. 11-i. 1. 28-i. 5. 'Furnish,' that may help thee with more and better qualifi cations. The best wishes, that can be forged in your thoughts, be servants to you! 11-i. 1. The benediction of these covering heavens 31-v. 5. Now, God be praised! that to believing souls 715 Providence. 22-ii. 1. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, 36-v. 2. [us, When our deep plots do pall; and that should teach • John iv. 24. Phil. iii. 3. 1 Fail. There's a Divinity that shapes our ends, 36-v. 2. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell: Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so. 15-iv. 3. The immortal part needs a physician; though that be sick, it dies not. 'Tis a vile thing to die, 19-ii. 2. When men are unprepared, and look not for it. 721 24-iii. 2. The same. Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: 722 The same. 34-v. 2. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible! Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul, 22-iii. 3. To counsel me to make my peace with God, 24-i. 4. 724 The brevity of life. The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. 8 Ps. lv. 21. 18-v. 2. Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force,- 726 God the cause of all causes. He that of greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister: 36-iii. 3. So holy writ in babes hath judgment shewn, flown i Great floods have From simple sources; and great seas have dried, Where most it promises; and oft it hits, It is not so with Him that all things knows, The help of Heaven we count the act of men. 727 Fall of man and redemption. 11—ii. 1. All the souls that were, were forfeit once;1 And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy ?m How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.° 5-ii. 2. The quality of mercy is not strain'd: It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven h An allusion to Daniel judging the two elders. See also Matt. xi. 25, and 1 Cor. i. 27. ii.e. When Moses smote the rock in Horeb.---Exod. xvii. 5, 6, &c. k Referring to the children of Israel passing the Red Sea, when miracles had been denied by Pharaoh. 1 Rom. iii. 10---23. m John iii. 16. Eph. iv. 24---32. n Ps. cxxx. 3. Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings; It is an attribute to God himself;" And earthly power doth then shew likest God's, Consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render 729 God's mercies to be remembered. Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, 9-iv. 1. 22-ii. 1. Heaven set ope thy everlasting gates, To entertain my vows of thanks and praise! 731 Provocation against Heaven. 22-iv. 9. The heavens do low'r upon you, for some ill; 732 If Divine judgment. my suspect be false, forgive me, God; For judgment only doth belong to thee! Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 731 The terrors of guilt in death. O thou eternal Mover of the heavens, 35-iv. 5. 22-iii. 2. 22-iii. 3. P Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought.---Ecclus. xxxv. 20. Matt. vi. 12, 14, 15. 9 Micah vii. 18. s Deut. ix. 8. Ps. cvi. 43. |