Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

But heaven will not only wipe away all tears from the christians eyes, but also all blots off from his name. Upright Hezekiah ⟨p. 31⟩in heaven is above the sound of cursed Rabshekah's tongue, which was set on fire of hell. Now holy David is got up that heavenly hill, that Mount Zion, he heareth not the railings and revilings of sinful Shimei. The most spiteful scorner of them all cannot throw that dirt so high, with which he bespatters the Saints reputation here below.

Secondly, As death will free the christian from ignominy in his name; so likewise from infirmities in his body: Diseases cause death, but death will cure all diseases: In this life Job had his botches, Hezekiah his boil, David his wounds and sores, the poor widow her issue of blood; one man wasteth away with a consumption, like a candle, till all the matter is spent: Another laboureth under a continual ache, that like the importunate widow will give him no rest day nor night: this man spends his days in pain, that man hath wearisome nights appointed to him: In some the bridle is taken off the fire, and they burn with a Fever; in others the flood-gate is taken up from the water, and they are like to be drowned with a dropsy. The patient man complaineth, my breath is corrupt, my days ⟨p. 32⟩are extinct, the grave is ready for me, Job 17.1. the upright man crieth out, My wounds stink, and are corrupt, my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: In one, the keepers of the house tremble with a palsy or lameness. In a second, the sound of grinders is low, through weakness. In a third, those that look out of the windows are darkened through blindness. In a fourth, the daughters of Music are brought down with deafness: O what an army, not only of moral, but natural adversaries, hath every man in his own bowels, constantly set in array against him, marching up, sometimes one,¹