A Sermon preached at Farington in Berkshire, the seventeen of February, 1587.  
At the burial of the right Honourable the Lady Anne Countess of Warwick, daughter to the Duke of Somerset his grace, and widow of the right worshipful Sir Edward umpton knight.  
By Bartholomew Chamberlain, Doctor of Divinity.  
LONDON Printed by john Wolf, and are to be sold at his shop at the broad south door of Paul's. 1591.   

To the right Honourable and most virtuous Lady, the Lady Dorothy umpton: Bartholomew Chamberlain wisheth increase of health, wealth, worship, and godliness with long life here to god's glory, and everlasting life hereafter with Christ jesus in heaven.  
WHether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God, as the Apostle saith. Which when I remembered, to the glory of my creator, and benefit of his church, I thought good to commit this little treatise to writing, preached at the burial of your mother-in-law, a noble Lady, a faithful wife, a virtuous woman, and a godly widow. And because your Ladyship (whose gifts of body and mind are excellent) heard it with attention, as you do always the word of truth (to gods praise and your own commendation be it spoken) I took it meet to dedicate it to you for a New years gift, and declaration of my thankful mind, for your manifold courtesies towards me. And forasmuch, as the days are evil, (sin abounding, and charity being cold) I have therefore set down the judgements of God against the dissolute people of this age, which have a show of godliness, but have denied the power thereof. And seeing they give themselves to commit all sin, even with greediness, being proud without humility, malicious without charity, cruel without compassion, covetous without measure, vain without virtue, vile without the fear of God, like to the horse and mule in whom is no understanding: therefore they shall undoubtedly taste the bitter cup of God's heavy displeasure, except they speedily and truly repent. Which, if they shall do, though their sins were as crimson, they shall be made white as snow: though they were red as scarlet, they shall be as wool, and that they may so do, I daily and devoutly crave of God, in the gracious name, and glorious face of jesus Christ his son: who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purge us to be a peculiar people unto himself zealous of good works. To him therefore with the Father and the holy Ghost three in persons, one God in nature, be all glory for ever,  
Your Ladyships at commandment Bartholomew Chamberlain.   

A Sermon preached at Farington in Berkshire, the seventeen of February 1587.  

O Death, how bitter is the rememmbrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea unto him that is able to receive meat. O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to the Epicure, which believing no resurrection of the body to life everlasting, but counting it pleasure to live deliciously for a season, doth spew out evil words, corrupting good manners, saying: Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die. O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to the covetous, whose trust is in uncertain riches, not in the living God (which giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy:) to the glutton, whose God is his belly, and glory to his shame: to the Atheist, which hath no hope, and is without God in the world. O death how sweet is the remembrance of thee to him, which hath put on the breastplate of faith and love, and the hope of salvation for an Helmet, living soberly, justly, and godly in this present world, having his conversation in heaven, from whence also ye look for the Saviour, even the Lord jesus Christ, desiring to be loosed and to be with him, which is best of all. O death how sweet is the remembrance of thee to the man which looketh not on the things which are seen, for they are temporal, but on the things which are not seen, for they are eternal: because to him thou art the end of all misery, and the beginning of all felicity: because thou art a passage to the things, which eye hath not seen, neither ear hath heard, neither came into man's heart, which God hath prepared for them that love him. Notwithstanding, though the remembrance of death to some be bitter, yea bitterer than wormwood itself, yet it is appointed for all men once to die. It is appointed therefore it is certain, for all men, therefore none can escape once to die, therefore every hour death is to be expected. It is appointed for rich Croesus, and poor Codrus, for wise Solomon and foolish Esau, for godly Abel, and wicked Cain: for proud Pharaoh and meek Moses: for virtuous josua, for mighty David: for fair Absalon, for strong Samson, for learned Tertullus, for prince and people it is appointed for all once to die. Noah lived nine hundredth and fifty years, and died. Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years, and died. Methuselah lived nine hundredth sixty and nine years, and died. And of all the fathers of the old Testament, though it be said they lived long, yet it is added they went the way of all the world, that is they died. Now it is good to remember death, it is better to learn to die: it is best of all in death to hope for life, knowing that if one earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we have a building given of God, that is an house not made with hands, but eternal in the heavens. Some to remember death do go every morning into the church yard and behold the graves. Some will have deaths head engraven in a ring. Some death painted on their houses. Philip king of the Macedonians, every morning before he came out of his chamber, had one to cry thrice at his door, remember thou art a man: Whereby he was put in mind of his mortality, that albeit he was a king, yet in time he must lay down his tabernacle as well as others. Which consideration might make him to rule discreetly, and to live orderly. For there can be no stronger bridle to hold us back from sin neither sharper prick to stir us forward to goodness, then to remember we must remove out of this body and appear before the judgement seat of Christ, to receive the things which we have done in this body according to that we have done, whether it be good or evil. Saint Hierom was wont to say: whether I eat or drink, or whatsoever I do, me thinks that terrible Trumpet soundeth in mine ear: Arise ye dead, and come unto judgement. This made him to hope in Christ steadfastly, to love God sincerely, to overcome his affections valiantly, to repent his sin unfeignedly, to bear the troubles of this life patiently, knowing that the afflictions, of this present times are not worthy of the glory, which shall be showed unto us. O that we could remember three things past: What good things we have omitted, what evil things we have committed: what time we have lost. O that we could consider three things present. The brevity of our life: The difficulty to be saved: The paucity of them which shall be saved. O that we could foresee three things to come. The hour of death, than which no thing more uncertain: The resurrection to judgement, than which nothing more terrible: The pains of hell, than which nothing more intolerable. Remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. The end of sin is death. Here is a spectacle, a Lady by birth, a Countess by marriage, by title right honourable, a widow of a virtuous life, a woman of many years, a mother of good children, whose body death hath killed, whose soul Christ hath taken, whose body must to the earth, whose soul is in the hands of God. Behold in her the end of all flesh: for as we are, so was she: and as she is, so shall we be: that her trusty Servants, that her faithful friends, that her worshipful, dear, and loving children, seeing God hath wrought his will upon her, as in time also he will upon you and upon all flesh, by calling her from earth to heaven, from men to Saints, to Angels, to the fruition of his most glorious presence: praise God for her. Let your lamentations be mixed with moderation, because she is gone from a vale of misery, to a haven of all happiness, and when Christ, which is her life shall appear, then shall she also appear with him in glory. For though her body be sown in corruption, yet it shall be raised in incorruption. Though it be sown in dishonour, yet it shall be raised in glory. Though it be sown in weakness, yet it shall be raised in power. Though it be sown a natural body, yet it shall be raised a spiritual body, when this corruptible hath put on incorruption, and this mortal hath put on immortality.   

Who may stand in thy sight, when thou art angry.  
THe earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh often upon it, & bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing of God. But that which beareth briars and thorns is reproved, and is near unto cursing, whose end is to be burned, who so heareth Christ's words, and doth the same, is likened to a wise man which hath builded his house on a rock, and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blewe, and beat upon that house, and it fell not: for it was grounded on a rock. But whosoever heareth Christ's words and doth them not, is compared to a foolish man, which builded his house on the sand: and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blue and beat upon that house, and it fell, and the fall thereof was great. If any hear the word and doth it not, he is like unto a man, that beholdeth his natural face in a glass: for when he hath considered himself he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what manner a one he was. But who so looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, shall be blessed in his deed. When a woman with a lifted up voice had said to Christ: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps which gave thee suck: he answered, yea rather blessed are they, which hear the word of God and keep it. He that hath my commandments (saith Christ) and keepeth them, he is he that loveth me. He that hath them (saith Augustine) in his belief, and keeps them in his life: he that hath them in his words, and keeps them in his works, he that hath them by hearing, and keeps them by doing: He that hath them by doing and keeps them by continuing in doing, he, and none but he loveth Christ. The fruitless tree is good for nothing, but to be cut down and cast into the fire. That saucy merchant which intruded himself into the marriage of the kings son, without his wedding garment, was not only checked, but also commanded to be bound hand and foot: to be taken away and cast into utter darkness, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. The fig tree which had leaves, but no fruit, was by our Saviour accursed for ever. The foolish virgins which had lamps without oil, though they cried, Lord, Lord open unto us: yet they received a short and sharp answer: verily I say unto you, I know you not. That evil, slothful, and unprofitable servant, which hide his masters talon in the earth, had it both taken from him▪ and was cast into utter darkness, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. That therefore we may be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving our own salves: that the word may be unto us, not the savour of death unto death: but the savour of life unto life. That the word may be unto us lively and mighty in operation, and sharper than any two edged sword, and enter through even to the dividing a sunder of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow, and may be a disterner of the thoughts and intents of our hearts, so that all things in us may be new, let us by humble prayer look up to almighty God in the glorious face of jesus Christ.  
When sinners once begin to despise the riches of God's bountifulness and patience, and long sufferance, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth them to repentance: when walking in the vanity of their mind, in darkness of their understanding, in strangeness from the life of God, through the ignorance in them, in hardness of their heart: and being past feeling shall give themselves unto wantonness, to work all uncleanness even with greediness: when they shall turn the grace of our God into wantonness, and deny God the only Lord, and our Saviour jesus Christ, led with sensuality as natural brute beasts, walking after the flesh in the lusts of wantonness: when they shall think it lost labour to serve God, and no profit to keep his commandments, neither to walk humbly before the face of the Lord of hosts: when they shall say to themselves, our life is short and tedious, our breath is as a smoke in our nostrils, our words as a spark raised out of our heart, our spirits vanish away as the soft air, our bodies shall be turned into dust, our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, our time is as a very shadow, our works shall soon be forgotten, our name no man shall have in remembrance: come on therefore let us enjoy the pleasures that are present, let us be partakers of our voluptuousness, let us leave some token of our pleasure in every corner, let the law of unrighteousness be our strength, let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die: when neither often warnings by his preachers, nor fair promises of reward, nor long benefits of mercy, nor sharp threatenings of punishment can do any good: then God (which in his wrath is a consuming fire) playing the part either of a good schoolmaster towards his negligent scholar, or of a natural father towards his dissolute child, or of a wise magistrate toward his disobedient subject, taketh the rod in hand, and executeth judgement on those whom mercy could not allure nor draw to amendment. Then his anger beginneth to kindle: for as God is the father of mercies, and the God of all comfort to them which draw near unto him with a true heart, in assurance of faith, their hearts being pure from an evil conscience, and washed in their bodies with pure water, keeping fast the profession of their hope without wavering, considering one another to provoke unto love, and to good works: so is he the God of justice to them which bear evil and unfaithful hearts, to departed away from him, fashioning themselves like unto this world, dead in trespasses and sins, wherein they walk according to the course of this world, and after the prince that ruleth in the air, even the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. To the one he is loving as a father, being his children elected of his grace, called by his word, justified by his son, sanctified by his spirit, and reconciled to himself. The other he hateth as his enemy. For as the righteous Lord loveth righteousness, whose countenance might behold the thing that is just: so he hateth all those that work iniquity, not bearing in them his Image, which is righteousness and true holiness, to beautify them, but the image of the devil, which is unrighteousness and unholiness to deform them: not speaking truth one to another, considering they are members one of another, but deceiving one another, by flattery▪ lying and dissembling: not speaking that which is good to the use of edifying, that it might minister grace to the hearers: but using evil words which corrupt good manners, not being courteous and tender hearted one to another, freely forgiving one another even as God for Christ his sake freely forgive them: but full of bitterness and anger, and wrath, cursing and evil speaking with all maliciousness, not knowing the wisdom that is from above, which is pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy, and good fruit, without judging, and without hypocrisy: but following the wisdom of this world, which is foolishness with God, The wisdom of the flesh, which is enmity against God, the wisdom that is beneath, which is earthly, sensual and devilish, do delight in envying, strife, sedition, and all manner of evil works, despising God's presence, abusing his patience, offending his Majesty, and provoking his anger. But when to ascribe anger to the most high, almighty & everlasting God, which is to be loved for his mercy, & to be feared for his justice, they must not imagine any such choleric passion to be in him, as is in man, as if God were moved of an intemperate heat, when justly he striketh the contemners of his bountifulness, and patience, and long sufferance, & raineth upon the wicked fire and brimstone, storm and tempest which is the portion of their cup. As there is in God no corporal member of longitude, latitude, and profundity: so is he void of affections and passions which proceed in us from infirmity. Si quis in Deo-humana membra humano more cogitet procul dubio de Deo in cord suo idola fabricat. For God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and truth. And as we are not to think, that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver, or stone graven by art, and the invention of man: so must we not ascribe to the divine power corporal parts, bodily members. And though the Scripture attributeth to God sometime a head, eyes sometime, sometimes ears, & sometimes hands: yet grossly to imagine these things to be in him is not only erroneous, but full of Idolatry. And albeit the Scripture saith that man was made after the image of God, whereupon certain heretics grounded their opinion of corporal substance in God: yet true it is, that God is a spiritual substance, most glorious, most mighty, most wise, most good, and hath no such corporal parts. To be made after the image of God, is, to have dominion as Adam and Eve had over all other living creatures before their fall: also to be created in righteousness & true holiness. Deus totus oculus est, quia videt omnia. He that made the eye, shall he not see, God seeth sometime with the eye of his mercy, sometime with the eye of his justice, with the eye of his mercy to illuminate, with the eye of his justice to blind, with the eye of his mercy to mollify, with the eye of his justice to reject, with the eye of his mercy to pardon, with the eye of his justice to punish. Nathaniel (said Christ) before thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. Here is the eye of mercy. Nathaniel answered, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel: here is the eye of faith, or here is faith the eye of the soul.  
The Lord turned back & looked upon Peter: here is the eye of mercy: then Peter went out and wept bitterly: here is the eye of faith, or here is faith the eye of the soul. With the eye of justice God saw Lucifer to throw him out of heaven: Adam to cast him out of Paradise: the old world to drown it for sin: the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to burn them for iniquity. Pharaoh and his host to overwhelm them with water for rebellion. Ananias and Saphira to strike them stark dead for lying: Herod to consume him with worms, for not giving him the glory: God hath looked down many years upon this realm with the eye of his mercy, giving us peace, plenty, with the preaching of his gracious & glorious Gospel: our sins do deserve why he should turn the eye of his mercy from us, & look down upon us with the eye of justice. God seeth them which walk not honestly as in the day time: but in gluttony and drunkenness, in chambering and wantonness, in strife & envying: not putting on the Lord jesus, but making provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof. Comfortable to the godly it is, that God seeth all their doings, and terrible to the godless it may be, that the Lord beholdeth all their actions. He that made the ear shall he not hear? hear a parable. The ground of a certain rich man brought forth fruits plenteously. Riches are common to the good with the bad, and that of the blessing of God, which maketh the sun to arise on the evil, and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust, and blesseth the ground of the gracious and graceless. Therefore he thought within himself, saying: what shall I do because I have not room to receive in my fruits. This will I do, I will pull down my barns, and set up larger in their places, and therein will I gather my fruits & my goods. No mention of a thankful mind, no consideration of God, no regard of the poor neighbour, but how to enlarge the barns to gather in his fruits & hoard them up, than I will say to my soul, soul thou hast goods laid up in store for many years, live at ease, eat, drink, & take thy pastime: He remembreth not God, he forgetteth death, he trusteth in mammon, he maketh account of many years, he purposeth to line in sensuality, in ease, in eating, in drinking, & in pastime: But God heard him and answered him, O fool thou makest account of many years, this night will they fetch away thy soul from thee, than whose shall all these things be, which thou hast gathered together? even so saith our Saviour by the way of application is it with him which is rich in this world, and is not rich in God. Some are rich in God but not in the world, as Lazarus was: some rich in the world but not in God, as this Dives was: some both rich in the world and rich in God as Abraham was: some neither rich in the world nor in God, as those poor beggars which have nothing, yet do contemn the word of God. Hear another parable. There was a judge in a certain City which feared not God, nor reverenced men. And there was a widow in the City which came to him, saying: Do me justice against mine adversary: and he would not for a time: but afterward he said within himself, though I fear not God nor reverence men, yet because this widow troubleth me, I will do her right, lest at the last she come and make me weary. He said it within himself, but the Lord heard him and answered, saying: Hear what the unrighteous judge saith: and shall not the Lord avenge his people which cry unto him day and night? yes surely he will do it, though for a time he differ. Comfortable to the godly it is, that God heareth all their sayings, and terrible to the wicked it may be that the Lord heareth all their words. As there is in God no corporal member: so is he void of passions which proceed from infirmity. The gifts and calling of God are without repentance. I am the Lord, I am not changed: with God there is no variableness nor shadow of turning, God is not as man that he should lie, neither as the son of man that he should repent: hath he said and shall he not do it? and hath he spoken and shall he not accomplish it? God in nature can not be changed: but in quality he may: whatsoever is in God is of his substance: Nullum accidens cadit in Deum. In God is knowledge without ignorance, wisdom in perfection: justice without respect of persons: mercy without measure, and what else not that pertaineth to excellency? and all these are of his substance. God is not sometime forgetful, sometime mindful, sometime pleased, sometime displeased, as man is. These things are spoken for man's capacity. He is said to be forgetful, when for a time he withdraweth his supporting hand from his, for their trial, he is said to be mindful. when he delivereth such as call upon him faithfully. He is said to be pleased, when he poureth his blessings upon his servants. He is said to be angry when he punisheth the wicked, delighting in sin. God spared not the Angels that had sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them into the chains of darkness, to be kept unto condemnation, God spared not the old world that had sinned, but saved No the eight person a Preacher of righteousness, & brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly: God spared not the cities of Sodom & Gomorrah that had sinned, but turned them into ashes, condemned them and overthrew them and made them an example unto them that after should live ungodly. If God spared not the Angels that had sinned: if he spared not the old world that had sinned: if he spared not the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah that had sinned, if he spared not the natural branches, shall we think he will spare us which are as proud as Lucifer, as voluptuous as Sardanapalus, as envious as Cain that first murderer, as malicious as Esau, as cruel as Phalaris, as lecherous as Amon which defiled his own sister, as mistrustful as Ananias, as covetous as judas which for money betrayed his Lord and master: as sinful as the old world, as filthy as Sodom, as much given to lying as ever was Saphira. dearly beloved, let us not deceive ourselves: forasmuch as we say Lord, Lord, yet do not the will of our heavenly father, and do acknowledge the way of righteousness, yet do turn from the holy commandment given unto us: and have a show of godliness, yet have denied the power thereof: forasmuch as our sins are grown ripe, & cry to heaven for vengeance, therefore we may fear destruction. If ye refuse the word of the Lord as ye do, and be rebellious against him, as ye are, ye shall either be devoured with that sword, or killed with the pestilence, or consumed with fire, or starved with hunger, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it: But if ye will take away the evil of your works, from before the eyes of the Lord of hosts, & cease to do evil, and learn to do well, ye shall both eat the good things of the land as hitherto ye have done: and though your sins were as crimson, they shall be made white as snow: though they were red as scarlet, they shallbe as will, otherwise ye may fear sudden destruction. For when no other means may prevail, than the Lord striketh suddenly. Suddenly he threw the proud angels out of heaven: suddenly he drowned the old sinful world: suddenly he burned the cities of Sodom & Gomorrah for iniquity: suddenly he struck dead Ananias and Saphira for lying: suddenly he consumed Herod with worms for robbing him of his glory. The day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night, that is suddenly wherein the heavens shall pass away with a noise, the elements shall melt with heat, the earth and the works that are therein shallbe burnt up, seeing therefore that all these things must be dissolved, what manner persons ought ye to be in holy conversation & godliness. But what manner of people are the greatest part? proud without humility, malicious without charity, cruel without compassion, covetous without measure, vain without virtue, wild without the fear of God, like to the horse and mule in whom there is no understanding: and therefore hear the judgements of God. The indignation of a prince is death, saith Solomon. If the indignation of a mortal prince be death to the subject, the displeasure of the king everlasting, immortal, invisible, of God only, wise, the king of kings and Lord of Lords is everlasting death to them which are taken away in his wrath without repentance. Behold the day cometh (saith Malachi) that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea and all that do wickedly shallbe as stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, and shall leave them neither root nor branch. The Lord (saith the Prophet David) is a righteous judge, strong & patiented, and God is provoked every day, if a man will not turn, he hath whet his sword, he hath bend his bow and made it ready, if the Lord be angry the earth shall tremble & quake, the very foundation of the mountain shall move and shake. When Adam perceived the anger of God kindled against him for his transgression, he could not abide his voice, but went about to hide himself in the midst of Paradise: (sin maketh men foolish) for he could not hide himself from God which is present every where & beholdeth all things. When Cain felt the wrath of God incensed against him, for imbruing his guilty hands with the guiltless blood of his righteous brother Abel, he fell into a desperate mind: my punishment is more than may be borne, my sin is greater than it may be forgiven, mentiris Cain (saith Augustine) Maior est Dei misericordia, quam omnium peccatorum miseria. In the 21. of Numbers. The wrath of God was kindled against certain tempters, and they were destroyed of serpents. The wrath of God was inflamed against certain murmurers and they were destroyed of the destroyer. Num. 14. The wrath of God was kindled against certain that committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty and three thousand. All these things came unto them for examples, and are written to admonish us, upon whom the ends of the world are come. This anger of God against sin how great it is, by this it may appear, that when man had sinned, no creature in heaven or in earth could appease it, but only he, which is the love of the father, the brightness of his glory, and the very engraved form of his person, even jesus Christ our saviour, who appeared to lose the works of the devil, and through death destroyed him which had the power of death, that is the devil, and to redeem us from the curse of the law, was made a curse for us, and being consecrate was made the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him, and is made more excellent than the Angels, in as much as he hath obtained a more excellent name than they: penitent sinners confessing with their mouths the Lord jesus, & believing in their hearts, that God raised him from the dead: to whom God hath not given the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind, need not to stand in fear of God his anger: for unto them and for them Satan the author of sin is vanquished, sin the work of Satan is destroyed, death the effect of sin is subdued. The curse of the law is taken away, the wrath of God is pacified, and man to God everlastingly reconciled. They which are subject to God his anger, are the wicked, men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith, lovers of their own selves, no lovers at all of them which are good, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God? having a show of godliness, but have denied the power thereof. Notwithstanding, if they could forsake evil and do good, if they could cast away all filthiness & superftuity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word which is able to save their souls, if they could put off that old man, which is corrupt though the deceaveble lusts, & be renewed in the spirit of their mind, & put on that new man, which after God is created unto righteousness, and true holiness, they should not need to fear God his anger, for God is pleased in Christ for his own sake. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, hear him. There are two sorts of sinners, some penitent, some impenitent. Impenitent sinners are they which are led with sensuality as natural brute beasts, walking after their own lusts, whose mouths speak proud things, and the swelling words of vanity, whose eyes are full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, whose hearts are exercised with covetousness, whose minds are puffed up with pride, having no sense of sin, no feeling of God's mercy, no sweetens in Christ his merits, not serving God, for he is a spirit, and they are carnal: for he is charity, and they are malicious, for he is light, & they walk in darkness of ignorance and sin. which mind nothing but earthly things. Penitent sinners, are they which rend their hearts and not their garments and turn to the Lord their God, having in them that godly sorrow which causeth repentance unto salvation, believing in true repentance, that when they shall confess their sins, God is faithful and just to forgive them their sins, and to cleanse them from all iniquity, denying all ungodliness and worldly lusts, and studying to live soberly, justly, and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope, and appearing of the glory of that mighty God, and of our Saviour jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purge us to be a peculiar people unto himself, zealous of good works. To him therefore, with the Father and the holy Ghost, three in persons, one in nature, be glory, and majesty, and dominion, and power, both now and for ever. Amen.   
FINIS.