Englands Face in Israels Glass, Sermon 7
PSAL. 106.24,25, &c.
Yea, they deſpiſed the pleaſant land; they beleeved not his Word:
But murmured in their tents, and hearkned not unto the voice of the LORD, &c.
WE have two things in the Text:
The ſinnes of the people.
And their puniſhment.
The ſins of the people are ſet down in the two former verſes.
And the puniſhment in the two later.
Their ſinnes are foure:
The firſt is, their unthankfulneſſe, in deſpiſing the pleaſant land; They deſpiſed the pleaſant land.
The ſecond is, their infidelity, that was the cauſe of that ſame unthankfull deſpiſing of the land; They did not beleeve his Word.
The third ſin was their accuſtomed ſin of murmuring; They murmured in their tents.
The fourth ſin was their rebellion and diſobedience; They hearkned not to the voice of the Lord. They deſpiſed the pleaſant land; they beleeved not his Word; they murmured in their tents; they hearkned not to the voice of the Lord.
You ſee their ſinne, ſee their puniſhment. The Lord threatens that hee will puniſh them for this; you heard before my Text, The Lord ſaid, hee would deſtroy them: Now, hee ſweares it, Hee lift up his hand againſt them. The lifting up of the hand was a ceremony among them, uſed in ſwearing; and God is ſaid to doe it, to lift up his hand when hee ſweares. He ſwore againſt them now.
And what did hee ſweare? Hee ſwore hee would puniſh them. Puniſh them in their owne perſons; hee would puniſh them thus, Hee would overthrow them in the wilderneſſe: And hee would puniſh them in their ſeed; Hee would overthrow their ſeed among the Nations, and ſcatter them in the land: Therefore he lift up his hand againſt them. There was his ſwearing, that hee would overthrow them in the wilderneſſe, and overthrow their ſeed alſo among the Nations, and ſcatter them in the land. Now you ſee the whole Text what it containes.
But I cannot give you a perfect underſtanding of this, nor gather ſuch doctrines out of it, as the words will naturally afford to us, except I firſt make knowne to you the hiſtory at large that is here epitomized. This is the Epitomy of an hiſtory; the hiſtory is ſet out at large, and I muſt declare that to you. I pray heare an hiſtoricall narration firſt, to make way to the Text. This hiſtory, here epitomized, is ſet downe at large in Numbers 13. and 14. I pray, at home, reade over thoſe two Chapters, and compare with them, when you reade them, the firſt Chapter of the booke of Deuteronomy, beginning at ver. 19. and ſo to the end of that Chapter; you ſhall finde many obſervable circumſtances of this hiſtory, that you ſhall not finde out of the booke of Numbers. Give mee leave to tell you all the whole hiſtory, how it is out of all theſe places together: It was thus; Let me ſhew you firſt, that, three months after the people of Iſrael came out of Egypt, they came to Mount Horeb, or Mount Sinai; for it was called ſometime by the one name, and ſometime by the other: It was the ſame mountain in the root, it had two tops, as I ſhewed you. They came there the third month after their coming out of the land of Egypt; there they continued for the ſpace almoſt of one whole yeare, for they went away from thence again upon the twentieth day of the ſecond month of the ſecond yeare. Almoſt a whole twelve-month they were at Mount Horeb: at Mount Sinai, as ſoone as they came there, God called Moſes to him, Moſes goes up to the Mount, there God gives the Law in fearefull manner. Moſes abode with God in the Mount fourty daies: In that time the children of Iſrael committed that Idolatry which you heard of; they made a golden calfe, and worſhipped the Image. For that, God ſaid he would deſtroy them: Moſes ſtood in the breach, in the gap, and turnes away Gods wrath, that hee ſhould not deſtroy them. Then Moſes goes up againe to the Mount, and tarries fourty dayes, and fourty nights longer; hee comes downe againe, and gives them the Ceremoniall Law, and the Judiciall; framed the Tabernacle, and all the veſſels appertaining to it; ſets the people in their march, ſhewes them how they ſhould march in the wilderneſſe towards the land of Promiſe. This was all done in that yeare. And let me obſerve this to you: In every place where they came, you ſhall find ſome extraordinary example of Gods judgements on them. Before they came to Mount Horeb, before the Law was given, God bare with them much; but after hee had given them the Law, he would not beare with them. They removed from Horeb, and came to Taberah: there ſome of them fall a murmuring; they were burned. Then they removed to another place, to Kebroth-Hattana, the grave of luſt, that was the place where they fell a luſting for quailes, for fleſh: there God deſtroyed the wealthieſt, the beſt of them, with the very meat in their mouthes. Then they removed to Hazeron, there Miriam was ſmitten with leproſie for her ill tongue againſt Moſes. Thence they removed to Cadeſh-Barnea; now Cadeſh-Barnea was upon the very borders of the land of Promiſe that God would give them; they were now upon the very entrance of the land, inaſmuch as Moſes tells the people, that now you are come to the land that God hath ſworne to give to your Fathers, now goe your waies in, and poſſeſſe the land.
The people would ſeeme to be a little wiſer, and more circumſpect then Moſes was; they would have Moſes goe ſend ſpies, firſt to the land, to ſee the goodneſſe thereof. The thing pleaſed Moſes well; Moſes ſaith ſo, Deut. 1. The thing pleaſed mee well to doe this. Hee goes and acquaints God with it, and he permits it. Well, hee ſends the ſpies into the land; the ſpies were twelve choſen (commonly when wee chooſe ſpies to ſend to a country, wee chooſe men of meane condition) Moſes did not ſo, hee would have them choice men, that the eminency of their place, might give credit to their teſtimonie of the land. Out of the twelve Tribes hee choſe twelve men; a principall man out of every Tribe, to view the land. Of theſe twelve, Caleb, the ſon of Jephunneh was one; hee was fourty yeares old then, hee went for the Tribe of Judah: and Joſuah the ſon of Nun, Moſes his ſervant, was another; and went as a principall man of the houſe of Ephraim: you ſhall finde the names of all the reſt; theſe two I name, the cauſe you ſhall heare anon. Theſe twelve ſpies were ſent to goe and ſee what the land was, and what the people of the land were; they were to give them theſe inſtructions:
Firſt, from the land, they muſt ſee whether it were good or bad, whether it were a wholeſome or an unwholeſome land.
Then they muſt ſee againe whether it were a fat or a leane land, a fertile or a barren land.
And then whether it bare trees or no: there were no trees in the deſert where they were, and this was neare it; they muſt ſee if it bare trees. This for the land.
Then for the people of the land, they were to give them theſe inſtructions; they muſt ſee whether they were many or few, whether they were ſtrong or weake: then, whether they dwelt in tents, or in cities, and townes. And then, if they dwelt in cities, whether their cities were walled or no, what fortifications they had: theſe things pleaſed Moſes well. And, in very deed, prudent policy is allowed us in the execution of that that God gives us in charge, ſo as it be not mixed with unbeliefe. I beleeve, that this policy of theirs was mixed with a great deale of cowardiſe and unbeliefe.
Thus the men goe, they view the land, they were fourty daies in viewing it, they returne againe, they bring with them ſuch a branch of a vine as hath not been heard of, ſuch a cluſter of grapes, that two men were faine to bring it upon a ſtaffe, upon a barre between them; ſuch a mighty cluſter of grapes this was. They bring with them alſo pomegranats and figs, that they might ſee the fruit of the land. Well, they come, they make an account of this journey of theirs. They all agree in this, the land was a wondrous good land, a marvelous pleaſant land, as my text calls it here, a wondrous pleaſant land; they all agree in that. And Caleb and Joſua, thoſe two, they encourage them, and ſay it is no more, but, ariſe, come, let us poſſeſſe it. They were full of faith; Caleb, his name ſignifies hearty, a hearty man full of courage: Come (quoth hee) let us goe up, and poſſeſſe it the land is worth our labour. The other ten ſpies (white liver'd men) they tell another tale: they begin with a commendation of the land; It could not be denied, it was a good land, a land that flowed with milk and hony, as God told them; that was very true. But commonly when a man will deprave, when he will calumniate, hee begins his calumniation with a commendation, and hee comes in with a But: As when wee commend a man, O, hee is a good man, a very good man, a good neighbour; but — and then he goes on: Like as wee reade of Naaman the Aſsyrian, a great man, an honourable man, a mighty man at armes, one. that had done great acts; but, hee was a leper. Even as the Papiſts, they commend the Scripture, O, it is an excellent booke, the booke of Scripture; It was written by the Spirit of God, holy Pen-men, of holy matters, in a holy ſtile, to an holy end; O, it is a good booke; but, it is a hard booke, it is difficult, there are great myſteries in it, it is impoſsible for Lay-men to attaine to it, it is good to keep them from it; Ignorance is the mother of devotion. Even thus doe the ſpies: It is a good land, O, a very good land, it flowes with milk and hony, there wants nothing you can deſire, you ſee the fruit of it; but, it is hard coming to it, there is great difficulty, I tell you, it is impoſsible to come to it. Why, what was the matter? Firſt of all, the men wee found in the land were the ſons of Anak, Gyants, men of mighty ſtature; their height was as the height of Cedars, and their ſtrength as the ſtrength of Oakes, as the Prophet ſpeakes of the Amorites; A mighty people, they are Gyants, wee are but like graſhoppers in their ſight; they took us as graſhoppers, they may tread us downe at their pleaſure.
And then againe, theſe men dwell in cities, and theſe cities are walled; yea, and to make it the more terrible, they are walled up to heaven: thus they ſay in Deuteronomy, chap. 1. Their Cities are walled up to heaven: there is no ſcaling of them.
Then beſides, ſay they, it is ſuch a land as devoures the Inhabitants of it; it eates out the Inhabitants. How is that? It is hard to ſay their meaning; Some think thus, there were peſtilentiall vapours there, that cauſed the peſtilence among them, that they died upon heapes.
Some think they were at civill wars one among another.
Or, peradventure, it will eat out the heart of the husband man in the tillage of it: with ſtrong labour they muſt toyle, and work hard if they will have their living. Somewhat it was; but they bring an ill name, an ill report upon the land, as the Scripture ſaith. Never ſeeke to get this land, it is impoſsible, the men are ſo great, and the wals are ſo high, and it is ſuch a land as eates out the Inhabitants.
The people they heare this, and firſt they fall to their old weeping, as they did before, for meat, for fleſh: they fell a weeping all that night; there was nothing but weeping to heare this. Well, the next day they fall to murmuring in their tents. If they had wept for their ſin of infidelity, it had beene well; but, in their mourning, they fall a murmuring:
Firſt, againſt God; for, when God promiſed to give them this land out of his love: Becauſe I loved your Fathers, therefore I gave you the land; the people turne it the other way; No, God did it out of his hatred: thus they ſay in Deut. God hated us, therefore hee brought us out of Egypt, to kill us here.
Then they fall a murmuring againſt Moſes; What, were it not better to have died in Egypt? Were there no graves in Egypt? Were it not better to die in the wildernes, then to go in and die there? They wiſh to die for feare of death, they wiſh themſelves dead for feare they ſhould die.
Then they goe a little further, they will (forſooth) chuſe a new Captaine, and goe back into Egypt; they will not goe into the pleaſant land; they will choſe an Elect one, and back they will goe, and they will not goe in there. Maſes and Aaron fall upon their faces and entreat them, and Caleb and Joſua encourage them; this land may be gotten, the Lord delivered us from the Amalekites, and he will deliver us from the Amorites; the Lord hath ſlaine the Egyptians, and cannot hee ſlay the Anakims? No, by no meanes; they tooke up ſtones, and would have ſtoned Caleb and Joſua: had not the glory of God appeared upon the Tabernacle, God knowes what they would have done. Upon that they ſtayed, then they knew Gods diſpleaſure; then God ſwears, of all theſe people that came out of the land of Egypt (and there were ſix hundred thouſand men, that were twenty yeares old and upward) not one man of them ſhould enter into the land of Promiſe; they ſhall all of them, ſince they wiſh they might die in the wilderneſſe, they ſhall die every one of them; and hee commands them to goe back againe, hee carries them to the red-ſea, hee makes them wander thirty eight yeares and an halfe more in the wilderneſſe: and, in that time, all that generation was worne out. Hee gave it to their ſeed, but not one man of them did come into the land of Promiſe, but thoſe two, Caleb and Joſua. Now you may ſee what the meaning of my Text is; They deſpiſed the pleaſant land. When they heard they could not have it without ſome blood-ſhed, they will none of it: They deſpiſed the pleaſant land, and would not beleeve his Word. The ſpies told them one thing, that they could not get it; and God ſaid they ſhould have it: they tooke mans word rather then Gods: They would not beleeve his word. Then marke how my Text goes on, then they murmured in their tents. Firſt they murmured againſt God; It is out of his hatred that hee doth it. Then againſt Moſes; Why have you brought us to die here?
Then, laſt of all, they utterly refuſe to goe to this land. But, as it is in the ſtory, when they ſaw that God had ſworn, that not a man of them ſhould come in, then all in haſte they would goe: God bids them goe, and then they ſay, No. Then hee ſaith, See you goe not: for, if you doe, ſurely, you ſhall be made a ſpoyle to them; yet, for all that, they would go; and they were made a ſpoyle to their enemies, a number of them fell by the ſword.
Now, I have told you this whole hiſtory, you ſhall the better obſerve out of theſe words ſuch points as they ſhall naturally afford to us.
I begin firſt with the firſt ſin, their deſpiſing of the pleaſant land.
They contemptuouſly deſpiſed, ſo the word ſignifies; they contemptuouſly deſpiſed the pleaſant land. This ſame ſin of theirs, in deſpiſing of the land, will appeare yet to be more grievous, a more great and fearefull ſin, if you ſhall but conſider two things with mee:
Firſt, that the land was a pleaſant land; that is the thing that I ſhall eſpecially ſtand upon to day. To deſpiſe any land that God was pleaſed in mercy to bring them to, out of ſuch an houſe of bondage as he brought them, it ſhould not have been; but, to deſpiſe a pleaſant land, that is a ſin, ſinfull above meaſure. The Hebrew phraſe is, a land of deſire: It was ſuch a land, as, if a man would deſire a land, hee could not deſire a more delightfull land, then that land of Promiſe.
Wee heare much of this land in Scripture; you ſee how it is called here a land of deſire. I pray, let me trouble you now a little further, to ſhew you the pleaſantneſſe of this land; and then make ſome uſe of it, as the time will permit.
Firſt, the ſituation of the land was pleaſant: It is ſaid uſually in Scripture to ſtand in the midſt of the land. It had Aſia upon the Eaſt, it had Europe upon the Weſt, it had Africa and Lybia upon the South, it had Scythia and Armenia and Perſia upon the North. That ſame that you read of in Pſal. 74.12. The Lord is my King of old, hee hath wrought ſalvation in the midſt of the earth; It is Allegorically, I confeſſe, myſtically, but ſweetly, by the Fathers applied to that great worke of ſalvation, that our crucified Jeſus wrought for us at Jeruſalem in the midſt of the earth, in medio terrae. This is Jeruſalem (ſaith God) that I have ſet in the midſt of all Lands and Nations about it, Ezek. c. 5. God ſaith of the people of this land, that they dwell in the very navell of the earth: It is Gods word in Ezek. 38. A people that dwell in the navell, in the very midſt of the earth.
Indeed, looke in our maps, and if it doe not fall out exactly, that India is in the midſt of the then knowne habitable world; yet, our Coſmographers agree in this, that there is no Country from which there is ſuch an expedite convenient paſſage to all the parts of the world, as from India; the ſituation was pleaſant.
Then ſecondly, the aire was pleaſant. The climate, I know, was more hot then ours is by far; being diſtant ſome thirty two, or thirty three degrees from the line; a hotter climate then ours: yet, a ſweet, temperate climate, free, (as it is confeſſed by all) from ill vapours: they were not infeſted with any peſtilentiall, epidemicall diſeaſes.
Yea, but for the water of it; What water was in it? I confeſſe, I finde not any great navigable rivers in it; but it ſo abounded with water-brooks, and ſprings, and fountaines, both in hills and vallies, that it is called by God, in Deuter. 8. ver. 8. a land of brookes, and ſprings, and fountaines.
Yea, but what corne bare it? That was one of their queſtions; they would know whether it was a fat land, or no. You ſhall finde in that place againe, Deuter. 8. It was a land of wheate, a land of barley. What abundance of corne grew in that Country, you may imagine by this: It was in the whole length of it, from Dan to Beer-ſheba, but one hundred and fifty miles; the length of it: the breadth of that land, between fifty and ſixty miles at the broadeſt: What a number of people could this land nouriſh? Marke but in the dayes of David, hee numbred the people, and yet hee numbred not all; for he numbred not Benjamin, nor the Tribe of Levi: yet, in the other Tribes, hee numbred thirteene, hundred thouſand fighting men. What a number were there then, beſides theſe, in proportion of women and children, old and young? Where ſhould they have bread to ſuſtaine ſuch a multitude? Surely, it was, as it is called in Scripture; a very fat land, Nahum chap. 3. ver. 5.
O, but what trees grow there in it? That is another queſtion they would know. Excellent Vines. The wine of Zarephath was famous, even among the Gentiles. Beſides their Vines, they had Fig-trees, Pomegranats, Almonds, and Dates, and Olives in abundance: therefore God calls it, a land of Oyle-olive: Yea, and, which is a remarkable thing; whereas there are ſome fruits that will not grow but in cold countries, and ſome fruits that will not grow but in hot countries, and ſome that will not grow but in temperate countries; about the lake of Geneſareth, the ſoyle was of ſuch an admirable nature, that all kind of fruits would proſper there with the like felicity.
I might goe on, and tell you what Mines they had; God told them the ſtones of that land were Iron, and out of their mountaines they might digge Braſſe. I might tell you of the Medicines of Herbes about Engedi: the beſt Balſome in the world was there. I might tell you of their Fiſhes in their lakes, and many commodities more. Let me tell you this, that God ſaith, Deut. 8. It was a land that lacked nothing in it. There was one City in the land, that was Laiſh, it was afterward called Dan, after that, Ceſarea-Philippi; you read of it in the Goſpell: the Scripture ſaith, that that lacked nothing that was upon the earth, Judges 18.10. Not to trouble you more with the commendation of this land, hearken what Ezekiel ſaith of it; It was the glory of all lands, Ezek. 20.6.
But, let mee aske now, What is become of the glory of this land? If there be any land upon the earth that ever was anathemated, ſmitten with a curſe from God, it is this land. It is now under the Turks: It is inhabited, where it is inhabited (but that is but in a few places of it; but, where it is, it is inhabited) by barbarous Turks in the vallies, and by wild Arabs in the mountaines. The moſt part of the land, at this day, lies unpeopled, and unhusbanded, and uninhabited. It is reported by a Gentleman of good worth, that did lately ſee it, that in that ſame goodly valley, (the eye of man hath ſeldome ſeen a goodlier) hee found graſſe growing to the waſte, waſte-high, that ſo periſhed unmowen and uneaten; it came to no better end, then the graſſe upon the houſe-top. All thoſe ſame goodly places, that you finde mentioned in the Scripture, as fruitfull as any places under heaven, are now made nothing but habitations for lions, and wolves, and wild bores, and leopards. Here is that that the Pſalmiſt tells us, that God brings a fruitfull land to barrenneſſe, for the wickedneſſe of the people that dwell in it.
Brethren, wee live in a pleaſant land too: it were too long to reckon up the commodities of this land; you know it your ſelves, Your lot is fallen in a good ground, and you have a goodly heritage.
Let us firſt be thankfull to this good God, for this good land that hee hath given us: And, let us take heed, that the pleaſures of this land make us not forget him. I pray, marke; When ever God ſhewes to his people the commodities of this pleaſant land of Canaan that hee would give them, as in Deuter. c. 8. hee gives them this charge; When thou art come into that good land, and findeſt it a land of ſprings and fountaines, of wheat and barley, of pomegranats and vines and fig-trees; a land, the ſtones whereof are Iron, and out of whoſe mountaines thou mayeſt dig braſſe. When thou haſt eaten, and art full, then take heed, that thou forgetteſt not the Lord thy God that gave thee that good land.
It is an eaſie matter to forget God in abundance; Nimia bonorum copia, ingens malorum occaſio, too too great plenty of good, is too too great an occaſion of ill. That ſame abundance of good things, that ſhould make us remember our good God, makes us forget him.
Then take another leſson with you, and I have done with it; that is, Take heed that wee defile not this good land. Were a land never ſo pleaſant; were it a more pleaſant land then this land of Judea; were it the very Eden, the garden of God: if it once come to be defiled with ſinnes of an high nature, Gods ſoule can take no pleaſure in it. I conclude this point with that exhortation that David, a little before his death, gave to the Over-ſeers of the people aſſembled together: And now (quoth hee) here, before the Congregation of Iſrael, and in the Audience of your God, I give you this charge; That you ſeeke the Commandements of God, and keepe them, that you may enjoy the good things of this land, and continue them to inherite to your children, and to your childrens children for ever, 1 Chron. 28.8. This is the firſt thing, the ſinne of theirs in deſpiſing this land: it was a fearefull ſinne, in regard the land was a pleaſant land.
The ſin was yet a little more fearefull, (I can but touch this point) if you conſider how they deſpiſed this land, in regard of the houſe of bondage whence they came. They knew their uſage in Egypt well enough; they knew how they were loaden there with burthens, and blowes, and injuries: ſo loaden, that their very lives were bitter to them, as the Scripture ſaith, all the while they were in Egypt; yet, forſooth, they will forſake this pleaſant land, to goe back againe to the houſe of bondage.
If they had deſpiſed this pleaſant land, in regard of ſomething that had been better, it had been well done. If a man deſpiſe the faire beautifull wife that lies in his boſome, out of love to Chriſt and the Goſpell, from the which that wife would ſeeke to draw him; hee ſhould doe well to deſpiſe her. Hearken what our Lord ſaith: Hee that forſakes not father and mother, and wife and children, and all for my ſake and the Goſpels, he is not worthy of mee; hee cannot be my diſciple, Luke 14.26. But, if a man deſpiſe this faire beautifull wife, out of love to a foule baggagely ſtrumpet; this is a ſin, an untolerable abominable ſin.
If this people had deſpiſed this good land, this pleaſant land, in regard of heaven, of an heavenly country, O, they had done well in that; their fathers are commended for doing that, Abraham, Iſaac, and Jacob: the Apoſtle ſaith of them, They regarded not that good land of Canaan: they tooke themſelves there to be like pilgrims and ſtrangers; they regarded not that, They ſought for a better country, the heavenly one, Hebrews 11. ver. 16. If I ſay they had deſpiſed this pleaſant land, in regard of heaven, they had done well in it; but to deſpiſe it, in regard of Egypt, though it was a fruitfull land (wee deny it not) though it was a plentifull land; yet, in regard it was the land of their ſervitude and bondage, wherein they had been ſo ill uſed, and out of which God brought them with ſuch a mighty hand and out-ſtretched arme; to deſpiſe this pleaſant land, in regard of this: O, that wee had died in Egypt! this was a thing that made God lift up his hand, that for this they ſhould never come to the land of Promiſe. This was the ſin of them.
And, brethren, is it not our ſinne too? You heard how the people deſpiſed the good land God promiſed them, and you thinke this was a great ſin of them to doe it; and you will ſay more when you heare the words following. But are not wee guilty of the ſame ſin too? Hath not God promiſed us a country, a better country then this? That ſame better country that the Apoſtle ſpeakes of, when hee ſaith, Abraham, Iſaac, and Jacob ſought a better country. Hath not God promiſed us a Canaan; not a terreſtriall, but a celeſtiall Canaan, a Kingdome of heaven? And we ſay of the fruits of the land; O, they are glorious fruits! O, what a bleſſed country is that! O, how happy are they that are in heaven! Wee all ſay, it is a goodly country. If ſome of theſe countries upon earth are ſuch Paradiſes, O, what a Paradiſe is that in heaven! What a country is that! Yet, though God hath promiſed us that country, when wee are told it is hard coming by it, and we muſt fight for this country before wee come to it; and that not with fleſh and bloud, thoſe ſons of Anak, thoſe mighty men; but with Principalities and powers, with the divell, with the world, with the fleſh; that we muſt forſake our ſelves, and forſake all that ſtands in the way, father and mother, and wife and children, and through many afflictions come to it: O, then we deſpiſe this good land; nay, wee deſpiſe it in regard of the earth. Shall I (ſaith the worldling) looke after an uncertainty in heaven, and loſe my certainty here upon earth? Muſt I forſake ſuch a ſin that brings me in profit? Muſt I forſake ſuch ſins as bring me pleaſure upon earth? No, let others ſeek heaven, if they will; let me have earth. Thus they crie for earth, and thus they preferre the ſpirituall Egypt of this world, before the celeſtiall Canaan, the Kingdome of heaven. Thus wee preferre a meſs of pottage before our birthright; and our ſwine, with the Gergaſens, before Chriſt; and theſe vaine tranſitory joyes, before the joyes of the Kingdome of heaven, that cannot be conceived, and ſhall never be ended. To which eternall joyes, the Lord, for his mercies ſake, and for his Chriſts ſake, bring us.
FINIS.