O, beat away the busy meddling fiend, 735 22-iii. 3. The danger of trifling before God. Take heed, you dally not before your king; Lest He, that is the supreme King of kings, Confound your hidden falsehood. 24—ii. 1. The great King of kings Hath in the table of his law commanded, That thou shalt do no murder. Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hand, To hurl upon their heads that break his law. 737 The same. Blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries, 24-i. 4. Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth.t 738 Submission to God's will. Put we our quarrel to the will of Heaven, God will be avenged for the deed; Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm; He that hath the steerage of my course, 17-i. 1. 17-i. 2. 24-i. 4. 35-i. 4. Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;" To make them ranker. 36-iii. 4. t Gen. iv. 10. " Prov. iii. 6. Matt. iii. 8. " Manure. 742 True repentance. Arraign your conscience, And try your penitence, if it be sound, Or hollowly put on. But lest you do repent, As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,*Which sorrow is always toward ourselves, not heaven; Shewing, we'd not spare heaven, as we love it, But as we stand in fear. Ꭹ Try what repentance can: What can it not? 741 False repentance. 5-ii. 3. 36-iii. 3. When I would pray and think, I think and pray As if I did but only chew His name; And in my heart, the strong and swelling evil Pray, can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; 746 The same. 5-ii. 4. 36-iii. 3. May one be pardon'd, and retain the offence? * 2 Cor. vii. 10. Spare to offend Heaven. 2 Rom. ii. 5. Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, 36-iii. 3. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: 748 God's care over his creatures. He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,a 749 Conversion. I do not shame 36-iii. 3. To tell you what I was, since my conversion 750 Submission to the Divine will. I shall be well content with any choice, 10-ii. 3. 10-iv. 3. Tends to God's glory, and my country's weal. 751 21-v. 1. God the Christian's hope. My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet. 752 Self-abasement. 22-ii. 3. Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride; Quite from himself, to God. Withhold thine indignation, mighty Heaven, 754 God the widow's friend. Heaven, the widow's champion and defence.a 20-v. 1. 16-v. 6. a Matt. vi. 26. b Ps. xxxvii. 39.---xlvi. 1.---cxix. 105. 17-i. 2. c 1 Cor. x. 13. The words of heaven; -on whom it will, it will; Chosen from above, By inspiration of celestial grace. 758 Want of resignation. God is much displeased, e 21-v. 4. That you take with unthankfulness his doing; 759 Authority given from God. 24-ii. 2. From whom hast thou this great commission? From that supernal Judge, that stirs good thoughts any breast of strong authority, In To look into the blots and stains of right. 16-ii. 1. 760 Faith in supernatural power. What impossibility would slay In common sense, sense saves another way." 761 The evil of feigned prayer. 11-ii. 1. That high All-seer which I dallied with, 24-v. 1. • Rom. ix. 15.---It shews that Shakspeare had a most correct idea of the nature of Divine sovereignty. f Job i, 21. 8 Rom. iv. 18--21. If angels fight, Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right. 17-iii. 2. When holy and devout religious men, Are at their beads,h 'tis hard to draw them thence: So sweet is zealous contemplation. 24-iii. 7. 764 Triumph over death. Holy Men, at their death, have good inspirations.i 765 The evil of contention between Christians. It was both impious and unnatural, Should reign among professors of one faith. 9-i. 2. 21-v. 1. If when you make your prayers, God should be so obdurate as yourselves, 767 Earthly crosses and cares. 22-iv. 7. Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth, 768 17-ii. 2. Humility. More will I do: Though all that I can do is nothing worth;" Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon. 769 Joy in death. My joy is-death; 20-iv. 1. Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity." h Prayers. Barbarity, savageness. 22-ii. 4. Luke xvii. 10, i Gen. xlix. 18; 1. 24. 1 Cor. xv. 55. |