Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

O that you had heard, but what I have done, of poor Old Creatures Outcries! Cursing the Courses and Companies that devoured their strength. Wailing with sighs and tears, their disability to Read; difficulty ⟨p. 420⟩of hearing; and utterly lost faculty of Remembering. The Memory ought to cut my Heart; may the Notice sway yours! If you will yet put off your Conversion, this is the Language which that Delay utters; I have a work given me to do that is for my Life Eternal. I have yet Eyes, and Ears, and Hands and Feet. I have Ease, and Strength. But these all have Wings, and will shortly fly and be gone as others be. When gone, I cannot work, or, if I do, it must be in the Fire as it were. Nevertheless, I will not set to my Work till my Sun and Moon and Stars be darkened. I will not stir one Foot for Heaven, till my other Foot is in the Grave. If my Peace be ever made with God, it shall be even at the Graves brink. When I am just come to the Mouth of Hell, and can scarce open my own Mouth to deprecate it, I will bestow a wish for Heaven, if that may possess me of it. Senseless Creature, that wantest nothing of a Brute, but Hair, and two Feet more!

O that you had heard, but what I have done, of poor Old Creatures Outcryes! Cursing the Courses and Companies that devoured their strength. Wailing with sighs and tears, their disability to Read; difficulty ⟨p. 420⟩of hearing; and utterly lost faculty of Remembring. The Memory ought to cut my Heart; may the Notice sway yours! If you will yet put off your Conversion, this is the Language which that Delay utters; I have a work given me to do that is for my Life Eternal. I have yet Eyes, and Ears, and Hands and Feet. I have Ease, and Strength. But these all have Wings, and will shortly fly and be gone as others be. When gone, I cannot work, or, if I do, it must be in the Fire as it were. Nevertheless, I will not set to my Work till my Sun and Moon and Stars be darkned. I will not stir one Foot for Heaven, till my other Foot is in the Grave. If my Peace be ever made with God, it shall be even at the Graves brink. When I am just come to the Mouth of Hell, and can scarce open my own Mouth to deprecate it, I will bestow a wish for Heaven, if that may possess me of it. Sensless Creature, that wantest nothing of a Bruit, but Hair, and two Feet more!