The divine penitential meditations and vows of His late Sacred Majesty in his solitude…The divine penitential meditations and vovves of His late Sacred Majesty in his solitude…

Nor foes, nor famine, nor diseases have Worked any change in us, that which we were, We constantly remain, and still do crave To be entangled in the self-same snare. No time can our depraved manners move, In vice we dwell, in endless sin's our love.

Nor foes, nor famine, nor diseases have Work't any change in us, that which we were, We constantly remain, and still do crave To be entangled in the self-same snare. No time can our depraved manners move, In vice we dwell, in endless sin's our love.

Which as it is too true, so must we still expect heavier Judgments, & none but such who have the grape of Canaan. A good conscience will be able with patience to endure them; ¹'twas that made PAUL courageous in the turbulent Adriatical Sea (when the Mariners despaired) the tempestuous Euroclidon blowing, and suffering 14. days want of meat and light; ²'Tis a good Conscience that is like the Herb Nepenthes ⟨image 4⟩which driveth away all sadness, 'tis a good Conscience that without Music, or Wealth, or Honour, or Liberty, nay in a forced and unlawful Death, is happy, and merry alone, ³And it is that which I wish unto all who fear God and honour the King; For Conscience is individual and inseparable, there is no putting of it to flight, or flying from it; ⁴nec fugere, nec fugare poteris, it was bread and borne with us, and saith (as Ruth to Naomi) I will go with thee whither soever thou goest. Therefore since our Kingdom is become a Pantheon (next after the Scripture,) I may well prescribe this Panacea, which sure none will refuse for, ⁵