The Unbishoping of Timothy and Titus, Part 1
A briefe Exhortation to the Archbiſhops and Biſhops of England in reſpect of the preſent Peſtilence.
MY LORDS, (for ſo you ſtile aBiſhop Whites Title to his Treatiſe of the Sabbathday.your ſelves, and will be intiteled by all men, notwithſtanding the bMath. 23, 8, 9, 10, 11, c. 20, 25, 26, Iam. 3, 1, 1, Pet. 5, 3,Lords owne inhibition to the contrary,) the Prophet Iſay. c. 26. 9. hath informed me; that when Gods Judgements are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learne righteouſnes: and who knowes, whither your Lordſhips, (as properly inhabitants, if not ſervants and louers to, of the world, as any of what ever profeſſion, though you c1, Iohn. 2, 15, 16, 17, Iohn. 17. 14, 15, 16, Math. 6. 24. 2, Tim. 4, 10.ſhould not be ſo) may not now in this time of Peſtilence, when Gods Iudgements are everywhere ſo rife among us, learne righteouſneſſe as well as others, (if you thinke not your ſelves to wiſe to learne, to old to be inſtructed,) if any man will but take the paines to teach you. Hearken therefore, I beſeech you, as you tender, either the preſervation of your lives in this time of mortality, or the ſalvation of your ſoules in the great day of Iudgement; or the lives and ſoules of his Majeſties Subjects, committed to your paſtorall charge, to a ſhort lecture, (no wayes overburthen ſome to your memories,) which I ſhall here read unto you for your good, if you pleaſe either ſo to interpret it, or come with a ſincere conſcience for to heare it. It may be that in regard of your ſacred Epiſcopall Order, you conceit your ſelves altogether plague-free, and as wholly exempt from divine, as you now ſtrive to be from temporall Iuriſdiction; (which makes you neither to dread the plague, which hath ſeiſed upon *Theodoſius the ſecond an Emperour and ſundry Kings, as Kinredus, Offa, (whom Platina in the life of Pope Conſtantinus records, to have both died of the Plague at Rome) with many other died of the Plague.ſundry Kings and laid them in the duſt,) nor as yet any way to endeavour by faſting and prayer, to prevent either it, or that famine likely to accompanie it. But to inſtruct you, how you are ſtill but men, (and ſo expoſed to all thoſe mortall ſickneſſes which continually aſſault the crazy fortreſſes of our d2 Cor. 5, 1,earthly Tabernacles, Non obſtante, your Rochets, Miters, Croſiers, and all other your Epiſcopall harneſſe,) give me leave in a word or two to acquaint you; That †Mathew Westminster. An. 591, p. 231.Pelagius the ſecond (though a Pope and Biſhop of Rome) notwithſtanding his Pontificall Robes, Exorciſmes, Pompe and Charmes, was both ſeiſed upon and devoured of this impartiall diſeaſe, Anno Dom. 591. as Platina, Onuphrius, Anaſtatius Stella, Faſciculus Temporum, Balaeus, Luitprandius, Vitelius, and others teſtify in his life: which Plague (as eSermo 20. in …etania Majori.Petrus Bleſenſis Archideacon of Bath, records,) was ſent by God as a juſt Judgement upon the Romans and Italians, for giving themſelves to drinking, feasting, DAVNCING, ſports and Paſtimes, even on Eaſter day, and other following Holy-dayes, after their participation of the bleſſed Sacrament of Chriſts body and blood, (many of them being conſ…med and dying of the plague in the very midſt of their ſports, mirth, ales ord poſ…mes,) and on this Pope himſelfe for not reſtraining them from this prophanes. A preſident which ſhould make your Lordſhips feare and tremble, this preſent Plague beginning here on Eaſterweeke laſt, as that Plague then did; no doubt for the ſelfeſame prophanation of Gods owne day and Sacraments, with thoſe abuſes, ſports, ſinnes, paſtimes for which they then were plagued; which your Lordſhips, have not onelyonly, not reſtrained, but countenanced, patronized, and propagated all you could, this Pope going not ſo farre, Cantinus Biſhop of Avernium, Cato his Succeſſor in the ſame See, Rupertus Biſhop of Triers, Hermannus Biſhop of Verd…num, Rainold Biſhop of Colen, Conrade Biſhop of Auguſta, Walricus Biſhop of Spiers, Ruggerus Biſhop of Herbipolis and Sigſridus of the ſame, Eberhardus Biſhop of Ratisbon, Gerion Biſhop of Halberſtat; all died of the plague. *Cent. Magd. 6. Col. 7, 31, Ibid. 137, Cent. 10. Col. 575. Cent. 12. Col. 1454. Ibid. 1466. Ibid. 1488. Ibid. 1489. Cent. 12, 1492. and 1493. Col. 1512. Col. 1533.In the great Plague that happened in the Emperor Frederike Barbaroſſa his armie in Italy, many Germane Prelates and ſome German Princes which came with him died of the Pestilence; neither their conſecration, nor their function being any antidote * Grimstons Imperiall History p. 490.againſt this diſeaſe. In the great fFox Acts and Monuments p. 632.Councell of Baſil. Anno 1431. (to name no more forraigne examples) Lodovicus Patriarke of Aquilcia, the Biſhops of Ebron, Lubecke, Constance, and others, died of the Plague; Aencas Silvius himſelfe (afterwards Pope) being there ſtricken with this diſeaſe, where of bee lay three dayes together at the point of death, all men deſpairing of his life, but yet by Gods helpe eſcaped. If any of your Lordſhips ſhould thinke theſe forraigne Preſidents proove not, that any Engliſh Prelates are obnoxious to the ſelfeſame diſeaſe; to rectify this miſtake, I ſhall preſent you with ſome domeſticke examples, worthy your moſt ſerious conſideration. gGodwins Catalogue of Engliſh Biſhops p. 183.Ann. Dom. 664▪ on the 26. day of October. Ceadda the ſecond Biſhop of London, with all the Monkes of his new erected Monaſterie at Leſtinghen, were taken away with the Plague. The very next yeare following hGodwin. Ibid. p. 629.Anno 665. Tuda the fourth Biſhop of Durham died of the Peſtilence. iGodwin. Ibid. p. 195.Anno 1258. Fulco Baſſet the 45. Biſhop of London, was ſmitten to death with the ſame fatall diſeaſe. kGodwin. Ibid. p. 198. 444.Michael Northbrooke his Succeſſor the 57. Biſhop of London Anno 1361. periſhed of the Plague; and the ſame yeare, Reginald Brian Biſhop of S. Davids, being tranſlated to Ely, deceaſed of the Plague before his tranſlation could be perfected. And to cite no *See Grafton. p. 123▪more in ſo plaine a caſe. lGodwin. Ibid. p. 164. 244. 617. Antiquit. Eccleſ. Brit. p. 345.Anno 1500. Thomas Langhton Biſhop of Wincheſter, then Archbiſhop of Canterbury elect but not enſtalled, and Thomas Rotheram Archbiſhop of Yorke, were both in the ſelfe ſame yeare ſwept away together with this pestilentiall diſeaſe. Theſe ſeverall Preſidents, to omit all others, may be a good Memento and Monition to your Lordſhips (being Biſhops and Archbiſhops) to put you in minde, both of your mortality in generall (which moſt feare you ſeldome ſeriouſly conſider off, being ſo over-much taken up with *Nemo poteſt duobus Dominis ſervire, Deo & Mammonae. Si te curiae, & maximè ſcaccarij labyrinthis immerſeris▪ magna ſpiritualis exercitij diſpendia patieris. Quid tibi ad Fiſcales redditus, ut, vel horula brevi curam poſthabeas animarum? Nunquid Chriſtus te ad Telonium elegit? Matthaeus ſemel inde ſum…tus, denuò ad ipſum non rediit: Non ſis ergo in turba corum qui ſecularia ſpritualibus anteponunt, glutientes Ca…elum, culicem liquantes. &c. Petrus Bleſenſis De Inſtit. Epiſc. Tractatus.ſecular imployments, not compatible with your ſpirituall functions,) & that you though Biſhops are ſubject to this diſeaſe, this ſtroke of God as well as others, as theſe your Predeceſſors: & therfore ſhould now at length, after ſo many weekes delay, endeavour to appeaſe Gods wrath and ceaſe this plague begun among us, (which every day ſpreads it ſelfe more and more) by publike faſting; prayer, preaching and humiliation the remedy, not onelyonly mNum. 6. 25. 6. Ioel. 1. 14. 15. 16. c. 2. 12. 13. 14. Iſay 22. 12. 13. 14. Zeph. 2. 1. 2.preſcribed in Scripture by God himſelfe, but likewiſe by the whole Church and State of England in the two laſt great plagues both in 1. Iacobi, and in the firſt yeare of our preſent Soveraignes raigne, as the ſeverall Bookes of common prayer and order of faſting, then publiſhed by theſe noble Princes ſpeciall commaund, yet teſtifie on record: both of theſe bookes joyntly confeſsing and bewayling, that among other ſinnes occaſioning theſe two dreadfull maneating Peſts, this was not the leaſt; That the †So the Booke of 1. Iacobi. stiles it.SABBATH DAY, was not kept holy, but prophaned; and therfore no wonder that theſe plagues breake in upon us. And may not your Lordſhips and the whole Kingdome juſtly feare, that this very Sinne of Sabbath-breaking, and prophaning Gods owne ſacred day by ſports, WAKES, MAYGAMES, DAVNCING, drunkenneſſe, chambering, wantonneſſe, idleneſſe, travelling, unneceſſary labor and the like, which drew on theſe two former plagues upon us, hath been one maine cauſe of this preſent Peſt, which beginnes thus freſhly to deſtroy us? It being moſt apparant to our ſhame, (and I feare to all our ſmart) that the Lordsday Sabbath, (for ſo our owne ‡Of the time and place of prayer, and againſt diſobedience and willfull Rebellion part. 3.Homilies ten times ſtiled it before the Troubles of Frankfort, Anno 15…4. when *Sunday no Sabbath p. 6. 20. 21.Doctor Pocklington, or Doctor Boundes Booke Anno 1595. when qHiſt. of the Sabbath part. 2. c. 8.Doctor Heylynfables; that the Lords day was first anabaptized a Sabbath day and Chriſtned with this name by ſome Jewiſh Godfather, to overthrowe the Liturgie and diſcipline of the Church of England, who yet gave it this Title long before theſe ignorant Doctors dreame, both in her Homilies and approoved writers workes,) hath of late beene more generally, publikely, audaciouſly prophaned in moſt places of the Realme by the fore named Paſtimes, abuſes and diſorders, then beforethoſe two ſweeping plagues, not onelyonly in point of practiſe, which is ill; but even in point of Doctrine, which is worſe; many late authorized †Biſhop White, Doctor Heylyn, Doctor Pocklington, Dostor Primroſe, Chriſtopher Dow, Edmund Reeve and others.Hiſtories, Treatiſes and Diſcourſes of the Sabbath; not fearing publikely to maintaine the Lawfullneſſe of dauncing, morriſes, maygames, dedication Feaſtes, paſtimes, ſports and ordinary labor even in Gods owne day, as the Doctrine of the Church of England; when as acute Maſter Iohn Sprint, in his propoſition for the Chriſtian Sabbath day, printed by licenſe London, 1607. p. 4. (newly reprinted) and learned Doctor John White in his ‡Sest. 38. n. 1. p. 111. Digreſ. 46. Sect. 43. n. 6. p. 165. 166.way to the true Church, 5. times printed by Authority (yea ſett forth and defended by Doctor Francis White now Biſhop of Ely,) expreſly brand it, not onelyonly as a Popiſh and Heatheniſh practiſe▪ but likewiſe as a point of Popiſh religion, which directly tends to the maintenance of open ſinne and liberty of life, and expreſly allowes most palpable wickedneſſe, directly tending to the deſolation of publike government and private honeſty; being that which hath made the Papiſts the moſt notorious Sabbath-breakers that live, *In quartum Praeceptum.Zanchius, and †In Ioan. c. 7.Muſculus alſo branding this very Doctrine of liberty they now teach and the practiſe of …, as Popiſh and all the Biſhops, Cleargy, King, Lords, Commons, and Parliament of England in King Henry the S. his raigne, condemning it in *Inſtitution of a Chriſtian man, and a Neceſſary Erudition &c. Expoſition on the fourth Commandement.two ſeverall bookes, as meerly Iewiſh; to checke the dotage of thoſe Novell Doctors who defi… the ſtrict ſanctification of the Lords day by abſtinence from dauncing, ſports, and paſtimes, Iudaizing; when as that they plead for, is truly ſuch. This groſſe prophanation therefore of the Lords day both in Doctrine and practiſe, y2. Chron. 36. 15. 16. 17. 1. Theſ. 2. 14, 15, 16.aggravated with the late ſuſpending, ſilencing, excōmunicating, purſevaning, vexing, perſecuting, depriving, crouſhing of many learned, painfull, godly conſcionable Miniſters, both againſt all the Rules of Canon Law, Common Law, Statute Law, conſcience, reaſon, piety, charity, justice, and the Preſidents of all former ages, meerly for refuſing out of conſcience upon their Epiſcopall Mandates, to have any hand or finger in acting, in proclaiming any thing which might animate their people to this peſtiferous ſinne, (puniſhed within theſe three yeares with many memorable ‡See A Divine Tragedy lately acted.particular judgements of God, immediately executed from heaven;) hath no doubt ſo farre provoked our moſt gracious God, that now he can hold zIer. 20. 9.off his hands no longer from ſmiting us, with his dreadfull Iudgements, which ſome of us have allready felt, and moſt of us now feare: who queſtionleſſe will never take off his Peſts and Iudgements from us, till your Lordſhips ſhall take off your moſt unjuſt Suſpenſions and cenſures from thoſe who have thus ſuffered in his quarrell, and all of us repented of this our crying ſinne of prophaning Gods owne ſacred day, both in point of Doctrine and practiſe: An abhomination never more rife in any then this our preſent age, by reaſon of your Lordſhips patronizing propagating and defending of it, in ſuch a publike, ſhameles, violent maner, as no former age can ever paralell, to Gods diſhonor, your owne eternall infamie, and the fitting of your ſelves, and this whole Kingdome for thoſe publike judgements, (not onelyonly of a late extraordinary cold winter, and two ſucceſſive drie ſummers, which threaten a famine of bread to recompence that aAmos. 8. 11.Famine of Gods word that you have lately cauſed, to omitt all other miſeries which we ſuffer,) but likewiſe of that plague which is now diſperſed: In the pulling downe whereof, as your Lordſhips have had, nodoubt, a deeper hand then others, ſo you have great cauſe to feare, you ſhall feele the irreſiſtable mortiferous ſtroke thereof, as much, or more then others. The Plague, you well know, is Gods owne Arrow Pſal. 91. 5. who ordaineth his arrowes against the Perſecutors. Pſal. 7. 13. And are not ſome at leaſt of your Lordſhips ſuch. It is Gods owne hand, 2. Sam. 24. 14. 15. Ier. 21. 6. Now Gods hand ſhall finde out all his Enemies, his right hand ſhall finde out thoſe that hate him, Pſal. 21. 8. And are not many of your Lordſhips in that number? It is, Gods owne brandiſhed ſword. Pſal. 8. 6. And whom doth God wound and ſlay therewith but the † head ‡ Pſ. 68. 21. Deut. 32. 41.of his Enemies, and the hayry ſcalpe of thoſe who goe on ſtill in their treſpaſſes? And are not to many of your Lordſhips ſuch; who even now in the very midſt of Gods Iudgements; proceed on ſtill in your malicious, violent, implacable hatred, enemities and perſecutions againſt Gods faithfull Miniſters, Saints, and the very power of holineſſe; in your Lordly Pompe, ambition, avarice, pride, envy, arrogance, cruelty, oppreſſion, injuſtice, luxury, ſecularity, ſuppreſſion of preaching, prayer, faſting, Communion of Saints, and what ever ſavours of piety; and in profaning of Gods owne ſacred day, both in your doctrine & practiſe; which is ſeldome worſe ſolemnized, or more prophaned as ‡In Pſ. 92.Maſter Bucer long ſince obſerved, Quam in ipſis Epiſcoporum aulis, then in Biſhops owne Pallaces, where neither Lord, nor Chaplaine, nor ſervant, make any great conſcience of prophaning it ſundrie wayes, to give the better example of piety and holineſſe unto others. How then (being heavy laden with theſe many ſinnes, and having the prayers, the cries, the clamours, the teares, the ſighes and groanes of all Gods people againſt you, if not of the whole Kingdome to, the dayly imprecations of many diſtreſſed Miniſters, people, whom you have moſt injuriouſly and inhumanely handled without any lawfull cauſe,) can you but feare Gods vengeance and expect his plagues, to ſweepe ſuch Clods of ſinne and miſchiefe, ſuch Peſts and Prodigies as you are, cleane away? dPſ 2. 9. 10. 11. 12.Be wiſe now therefore O yee Kings, (for ſuch are you now become by giving abſolute Lawes, and preſcribing what Ceremonies, Articles, Rites, Oathes and Novelties you pleaſe, even in your owne names and rights alone, unto his Majeſties people, and executing all Lordly, Kingly Soveraignity and Dominion over *Animabus Prelatus es, non corporib. nihil Prelato commune eſt cum Pilato. Petrus. Bleſenſis. Tract. de Inſtitut. Epiſcopi, Ioanni Wigormenſi Epiſc. dicatus.mens bodies, and eſtates as well as ſoules, contrary to your Saviours expreſſe Inhibition. Math. 20. 25. 26.) be learned O yee Iudges of the earth: (for ſuch are you now in many temporall Courts, and would be gladly ſuch in more, in ſteed of being preaching Biſhops in our Pulpits and Paſtors of mens ſoules: Serve the Lord in feare (for that is in truth your duty, not to be Lords your ſelves, or reverenced and ſerved with feare as Lords are wont to be:) and rejoyce unto him (not with Organes, Choriſters, Pipes, and Daunces, but) with trembling kiſſe the ſonne (whom you have hitherto buffeted ‡Acts 9. 4. 5.perſecuted in his faithfull Miniſters and Servants) leaſt he be angry, and ye periſh in the way, even now when his wrath is kinded but a litle, and his plagues but newly kinded; leaſt if ye refuſe to turne from all your former ſinnes and wickedneſſes, hee begin at laſt to bruiſe you with this his rod of Iron, and daſh you in peeces like a Potters veſſell, and there be *Pſal. 7. 1.none to deliver you from this his raging fury. Remember I beſeech you that of the Prophet Nahum gNahum. 1. 2.God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth, the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adverſaries, and he reſerveth wrath for his enemies. And though he hath a long time hRom. 9. 22.ſuffred you with much patience (as he doth other veſsels of wrath fitted to deſtruction,) to ſpoyle, oppreſſe and deale treacherouſly with his people; yet conſider now, that the times are drawing neare wherein ‡ Iſay. 33. 1. Vae…is qui praeſident, hominibus, niſi eis praeſideat Deus. Petrus Bleſenſis. de Instit. Epiſcopi Tractat.you may be recompenced with the like uſage; as the Prophet Iſai threatens. † Wo to thee that ſpoyleſt and thou that waſt not ſpoyled, and dealeſt treacherouſlly and they dealt not treacherouſly with thee: when thou ſhalt ceaſe to ſpoyle, thou ſhalt be ſpoyled, and when thou ſhalt make an end to deale treacherouſly, they ſhall deale treacherouſly with thee. Wherefore my Lords kDan. 4. 27.breake of your ſinnes and ſinnfull proceedings by ſincere and timely repentance, and of Lyons, Beares, ‡Acts 20. 29 Frequens eſt inter Epiſcopos aliquem invenire, qui primum ſuae promotionis animam dedicet ſanctitati; cumque in ſua novitateſit factus agnus, inveteratus aliquot dierum, fit rapaciſſimus Lupus. Petrus Bleſenſis De Inſtit. Epiſcop. Tractatus.Wolves, Thieves, and Robbers, (which many Biſhops have degenerated into) become *Iſay. 11. 6. 7.Lambes and Shepheards to Gods people; and now at laſt, mCol. 3. 12. 13. 14. 15.as the Elect of God, holy and beloved, put on bowels of mercies, kindneſse, humbleneſſe of minde, meekneſse, long ſuffering, forbearing and forgiving all thoſe againſt whom you have any quarrell, even as Chriſt forgave you ſo alſo doe ye. And above all things, put on Charity, which is the bond of perfectneſſe, and lett the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you are alſo called in one body; and let the word of God dwell richly in you, in all wiſedome &c. And if you will divert this Peſt either from your ſelves or others; then preſently † beginne to turne to the Lord with all your hearts, with fasting, weeping, and with mourning, ſanctify a faſt call a ſolemne aſſembly gather the Elders, &c. (and not by proxy but in proper perſon, if ever you will either be reputed the Preiſts or Miniſters of the Lord,) weepe betweene Porch and the Altar, and ſay Spare thy people O Lord &c. give not thine heritage to reproach. Alas for the ‡ Ioel. 2. 12. 13. 14. 15. 14. 15. 16.day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Allmighty ſhall it come, and who ſhall eſcape it? And that your faſt may be acceptable, beware that it be not *Iſay. 58. 4. … 14.a faſt for ſtrife and debate, to ſmite with the fist of wickedneſſe, or to make your voyce to be heard on high, bewareleaſt it be only a hanging downe of your heads, like a bulriſh and aff licting of your ſoules onelyonly for a day. But let it be that true fast, which God hath choſen, to looſe the bands of wickedneſse, to let the oppreſsed goe free, to undoe the heavy burthens (which you have lately layd on Miniſters and people) and to breake of every yoake, (wherewith you like Lordly † Barons have clogged the Conſciences (yea and bodies) of Gods ſervants, and brought them into ‡ Quidan Epiſcopi Regum munificcntias & ele…moſinas antiquorum, abuſive Baronias & Regalia…ocant Et in occaſionem turpiſſimae ſervitutis & ſeipſos Barones appellāt vereor ne de illis queruletur Dominus, & dicet. Ipſi regnaverunt & non ex me. Principes exſtiterunt & ego non cognovi Scias te aſſumpſiſſe Pastoris officium non Baronis. Certe Ioſeph in Aegypto Patrem ſuum & fratres inſtruxit, ut dicerent Pharaoni, viri Pastores ſumus: Maluit eos profiteri Pastoris officium, quam Principis aut Baronis.a miſerable bondage and captivity under you, as if they were your vaſſals, not Brethren:) to breake your bread to the hungry, to bring the poore that are caſt out, (yea the poore Miniſters and Chriſtians you have moſt unchriſtianly caſt out of their livings, houſes and Gods houſe it ſelfe, throwne into your naſty priſons, where they muſt ſtill be detained, when others are ſet free) to your houſes, (yea to their owne houſes, livings and Gods houſe againe,) to cloath the naked, to draw out your ſoule to the hungry, to ſatisfie the afflicted ſoule; to turne away your feet from the Sabbath from doing your pleaſure on Gods holy day to call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord honourable, to honor God alone therein, not doing your owne wayes, not finding your owne pleaſure, nor ſpeaking your owne words. If thus you now faſt and doe, peradventure you may be ſpared in this day of the Lords great wrath, and God will make our health to ſpring forth ſpeedily. But if you forbeare to doe it, and proceed on as you have done, be ſure pIer. 5. 9.that God will viſit you for theſe things, and that his ſoule ſhall be avenged on ſuch a Nation as you are. He will no doubt qIer. 11. 11. 23. Petrus Bleſenſis Tractat. De Inſtit. Epiſeopi.bring evill upon you, and you ſhall not be able to eſcape, in this yeare both of yours and his viſitation: in which as you have moſt ſtrangly viſited others, thruſting many of Gods beſt and painefulleſt Miniſters from their Miniſtery in ſundry places, upon meere new fancies and Articles of your owne, againſt Law and juſtice; ſo God the ſupreame Viſitor, will in his juſtice viſit you, in one kinde or other, with his moſt righteous judgments, & cut you off with his plagues, as he hath done your forecited predeceſſors. This you have cauſe to feare, and ſeriouſly to expect, unleſſe you forthwith become New-Creatures: Loe I have in few words admoniſhed you; If you amend, there may be hope of mercy, if you continue, what ye are, contemne alla dmonitions, †Iſay. 41. 11. 12.ſtriving still as you have done, againſt God, his truth and people, you ſhall be aſhamed, confounded and periſh, you ſhall become as nothing and as a thing of nought, For God hath ſpoken it and he sNumb. 23. 19.will make it good. tPſal. 37. 10. 38.The transgreſsors ſhall be deſtroyed together, the end of the wicked ſhall be cut off. For yet a little while, and the wicked ſhall not be, thou ſhalt diligently conſider their place, and it ſhall not be found. u2. Tim. 2. 7.Conſider what I have written, and the Lord give you underſtanding in all things.
Farewell.