A word in season

This is a goodly Psalm, for the sundry, excellent, and most apt similitudes contained therein, whereby the Holy Ghost painteth out those great Majesties and Principalities of the World, which fight against the the Gospel. A little before he compared them to plowers drawing out furrows of a marvellous length; to whom he so compareth them, not in this respect, as though it were granted unto them so long to abuse their power, wealth; ⟨p. 39⟩and riches; but in respect of the great Tediousness, Grief, and anguish of those which suffer the Plowers, the Furrows, the Wounds, and treading under foot; for unto them it seemeth a tedious, a long, and as it were an infinite Ploughing. Wherefore they desire to be delivered, and never so little tarrying (through this tediousness and anguish of heart) seemeth to them intolerable. Against this Weariness and thy, Tediousness therefore, he comforteth the faithful with this similitude, of grass in the top of the house. As if he said, Why seemeth the time so long, and tedious unto thee? Why dost thou not learn to understand what these Plowers thy Adversaries be? Didst thou never see grass growing on the tops of houses? Who did ever complain that the grass flourished so long? who ever went about to pluck it up? As though it were not wont of it self to wither and vanish away. Learn therefore that the very same is the state and condition of thine Adversaries. Thus with one similitude he sighteth against another.¹ But if a man could effectually believe that this similitude was made and here set down by the Holy Ghost, and close up the same fully in his heart; he should fear neither the Turk dor the Pope, with all his cruel Prelates, nor the Tyranny of Princes, but should contemn them all, and as little regard them as the grass on the tops of the houses.

This is a goodly Psalm, for the sundry, excellent, and most apt similitudes contained therein, whereby the Holy Ghost painteth out those great Majesties and Principalities of the World, which fight against the the Gospel. A little before he compared them to plowers drawing out furrows of a marvellous length; to whom he so compareth them, not in this respect, as though it were granted unto them so long to abuse their power, wealth; ⟨p. 39⟩and riches; but in respect of the great Tediousness, Grief, and anguish of those which suffer the Plowers, the Furrows, the Wounds, and treading under foot; for unto them it seemeth a tedious, a long, and as it were an infinite Plowing. Wherefore they desire to be delivered, and never so little tarrying (through this tediousness and anguish of heart) seemeth to them intollerable. Against this Weariness and thi, Tediousness therefore, he comforteth the faithful with this similitude, of grass in the top of the house. As if he said, Why seemeth the time so long, and tedious unto thee? Why dost thou not learn to understand what these Plowers thy Adversaries be? Didst thou never see grass growing on the tops of houses? Who did ever complain that the grass flourished so long? who ever went about to pluck it up? As though it were not wont of it self to wither and vanish away. Learn therefore that the very same is the state and condition of thine Adversaries. Thus with one similitude he sighteth against another.