Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading…Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading…

But as it is too true, that the righteous perisheth, and no man almost considereth it, that they are taken away from the evils which shall meet with such as remain ⟨p. 258⟩behind: so, who is meet to hear our Saviours words, weep for your selves,§F and for your children? and therefore to muse and think deeply of it, that he may do it. So that meditation should be one with us, whatsoever should be the other: That it might not be verified in us, which was complained of by the Prophet Jeremiah: I stood and hearkened when God reproved the peoples security, ¹to see, if any would return; but there was none that said, what have I done? As if he should say, there was none, that pondered in his heart, how God was offended.² Paul willed Timothy to meditate and throughly exercise and season his mind with the doctrine which he delivered to the people, even to be taken up of it, that both he himself might be throughly seasoned with the doctrine for every part of his life; & that he might feed his hearers the more plentifully.

But as it is too true, that the righteous perisheth, and no man almost considereth it, that they are taken away from the euils which shall meete with such as remaine ⟨p. 258⟩behinde: so, who is meete to heare our Sauiours words, weepe for your selues,§F and for your children? and therefore to muse and thinke deepely of it, that he may doe it. So that meditation should be one with vs, whatsoeuer should be the other: That it might not be verified in vs, which was complained of by the Prophet Ieremie: I stoode and hearkned when God reproued the peoples securitie, ¹to see, if any would returne; but there was none that said, what haue I done? As if he should say, there was none, that pondred in his heart, how God was offended.²