THE CHANGE: OR, The Blind Eye Opened. A double Discourse on Ephes. 5.8. Ye were sometimes Darkness, but now are ye Light in the LORD: Showing the great Alteration that is wrought in a man Regenerate from what he was in his Unregeneracy.  
Presented, first to the Ear, now to the public Eye, By the Author THOMAS DUGARD, Mr. of Arts, CAMBR.  
Quantum mutatus!  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  Isaeus. 
But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,  
but ye are justified,  1 Cor. 6.11. 
LONDON, Printed by G M. for George Edward's dwelling in Greene-Arbour at the sign of the Angel, 1641.   

TO THE WORSHIPFUL, his much honoured Uncle, M. RICHARD DUGARD, Bachelor of Divinity, and Precedent of Sidney-Sussex College in Cambridge.  
Sir,  
A Course of Literature (as the most 
a Dulces ante omnia Musae. Virgil Georg. l. 2.  Sweet and 
b Pro. 8.11  Satisfactory) I ever affected: and have now for more than two decades of years, according to Ability and Opportunities prosecuted. As for Opportunities, none may recount them with more rejoicing then myself: Having had the happiness of Grammatical Foundations from so Famous a 
c M Henry Bright late Master of the most flourishing Kings School in the City of Worcester.  Master, and of Academical Superstructions from as Famous a Tutor. Great were my Engagements to Him; but Unspeakable to You. Under whom, so Fatherly in Affection, so Painful in Precepts, and so Rare an Example of Learning and Piety, my Seven year's service for the Liberal Sciences was as delightfully spent, as 
d Gen. 29.20.  Iacob's for his beloved Rachel. And although I have now been absent from the Fountain as many years as I enjoyed it, and wanted the Breast as long as I sucked it: (as Pharaohs 
e Gen. 41.30.  seven years of Plenty were sueceeded with as many of Famine;) yet hath there not been a Cessation of Your Deserts, but a continual Obligation of me to further Duty. I have not drunk at the Fountain; but Your inexhausted Goodness hath streamed upon me with ink-influence. I have not sucked the Breast; but you have fed me with the Quill. Those Precious Letters I mean; so full of Affection to me, and of happy Discord within themselves, whether their Gravity of Counsel, or Elegancy of Latin stile should obtain the Pre-eminence. These as often as I read, (and there is none of them but I have read it as often as they 
f Literae Principum sunt ter legende.  say the Letters of Princes are to be read,) me thinks I hear your old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: and see you hanging again on the Ears of your Flock those Precious jewels; Labour to keep your Consciences Tender: Study to approve your hearts to God: Secretum Domini Timentibus eum: Ministerium onus est Angelicis humeris formidandum: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: Surgunt indocti, & coelum rapiunt, & nos cum Doctrinis nostris sine Cord, ecce ubi volutamur! And a Thousand such, All which, inculcated to us in Common, together with those wherewith you have been pleased to enrich Me in particular, should I, according to their Desert, desire to commend to public intelligence, I must not think of a little Epistle, but a large Panegyricke.  
For the greatest part of Thirty years you have been exercised in that Pupillary Employment. In which space, what a Pillar you have been to the House, what an Ornament to the University, and how greatly Instrumental to the Church and Commonwealth, as I know you desire not to hear, so all know I need not to speak. With You it hath not been as with Some; who either have not taken more Pupils than One; (like the 
g Markan.  Turkey-henne, which if she see but one of her chickens following her, regardeth not what becometh of the rest;) or if they have taken many, have refused to take just pains with them. And therefore (as I have been credibly informed) when their consciences have been wakened by their last sickness, have complained of their Remissness in that kind, as of one of their most pressing Grievances. Your Number hath been Great, almost Fifty have I known in the College together under Your Name; (and above Thirty of them Undergraduates) Some (like the fruit in Alcinous his 
h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Hom. Odyss l 7.  Orchard) ripening; Others fully ripe, and fit to be set forth for public service. And for your Singular Care of them, that (as Socrates told 
i Habebo curae ut te metiorem tibi reddā quàm accepi. Senec. de Benef. l. 1. c. 8.  Eschines) you might restore them bette● than you received them; your Constant and earnest endeavours of joining the Muses and Graces, of making them bo●h Learned and Good, as you cannot want abundant Comfort within Yourself, so may you worthily be a Precedent to Others.  
It is Your great Honour, (as Cornelia that Noble Matron accounted her Offspring her greatest 
h Haec Ornamenta mea sunt. Val● Maxmus l. 4. c. 4 exemp 1.  Ornaments) that out of your Nursery hath proceeded so Great a Number; that you have been so Literally Fruitful as to spread your Branches in abundance over the face of the Land: Some, Pleaders at the Bar; some, Preservers of frail nature; Many, Instructors of 
l Cereus in vitium flecti, etc. Horat.  untutord youth; bu● Most, and some o● them of all Degrees (and others very eminent) Interpreters o● Sacred Oracles. Al● which, with the Sons of Nobles, and the Gentry, were they put together, and a Royal Head set on the top of them, would make the Better part of a little Kingdom. And none of which, I assure myself, but esteems it his great Happiness, ●hat his fresh vessel hath been 
m Quo semel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem Testa diu. Horat.  seasoned with your Principles.  
But such Passages, ● fear give you Offence. Yet I am sure I do you no wrong, not trespass upon the Truth. And if you take it for my Fault, others will account it my Duty. Give me leave, I beseech you, to rejoice that I am of so near Relation to such Exemplary Virtue; (especially since the very 
n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch. in vita Acati.  mention thereof i● an Incentive to imitation;) and to acquaint the world what you● Goodness hath been to Him, who earnestly 
o N hill mihi fuit optatius, quàm ut primùm abs te ipso, deinde à caeteris omnibus quàm gratissimus erga te esse cognoscerer. Cicero ad Dentulun Ep. fam l 1 ep. 5.  Desires to approve himself Thankful, bu● cannot reach to any higher Expression thei● this slender discourse▪  
The Issue it ìs o● not many day's study, and altogether 
p Ita à nobis editur ut voluntati quorum dam amicorum obsecuri magis quàm judicium nostrum secuti fuerimus. Casaub in calce Nor in N.T.  unworthy, if not of Light, yet of your Acceptance. However, as you formerly did the Parent, who now therefore adventureth his Head to show you his 
q Excutienda damus Praecordia: quantaque nostrae 
Pars tua sit— animae, tibi—  
Ostendisse juvat pulsa, dignoscere cautus  
Quid solidum crepet, & pictae tectoria linguae  
Et quod sequitur apud Pers. Sat 5 ad Corn.   Heart, vouchsafe it, I humbly pray you, your Tuition, and so further oblige  
Your most devoted Nephew THOMAS DUGARD.   

To the Reader.  
I Shall not need to make a long Apology for the practice of such public spirits, as desire by setting forth divine Tractates in their native language to edify the Church of God. Thou too well knowest what a multitude of profane Pamphlets fly abroad in the world: which serve to no other use then to corrupt men's hearts and lives. If there were not some counterpoison to prevent the infection which such Discourses cause, I cannot see how almost any should be free from the plague sores of pestilent impieties. Shall Physicians be esteemed for finding out, and making common, Preservatives for the Body, and shall Ministers be condemned of folly, an● rewarded with reproach for compounding and communicating Antidotes for the Soul? Certainly, it is either ignorance, or envy, that hath opened the mouths of some men, (who yet would seem something for Learning and Religion,) to calumniate this pious course; which by experience is found to have done so much good in the Church. For how many by reading holy Treatises have been converted from the 
a Jam. 5.20.  error of their way? Others ●ave been confirmed in ●e truth, & gained much ●gmentation to their ●races and Comforts.  
Object. 1. They have Moses, and the Prophet's, the Holy Scriptures in a known tongue. ●et them read them: ●bey are all-sufficient.  
Answ. 1. The greatest part of men are ignorant, and cannot understa●● what they read without a Guide, and all men ha●● not a Guide at hand to corect them. 2. All Guide have not the same gift some have more dexterity in opening and applying Scripture th●● others. Now all Go●● people have interest●● the gifts of all his servants, and therefore w● should they be robbed their right?  
Object. 2. There English Books enough ●ready and therefore to ●●d more is superfluous. An. 1. There be too ma●● of a worse nature; and ●is there a daily additi●● 2. The Church's Trea●●e consists mainly in ●●d Books, the more they multiplied, the richer Church grows, and ●●l the Church be ●ught too rich?  
●b. 3. Many, and wor●● are the labours of o●s, already extant, upon this Argument.  
An. 1. Thou knowest what is ordinarily answered. In the mouth of man● witnesses Truths are more confirmed, and men left more inexcusable. 2. Those Truths cannot be too often taught, that ar● never sufficiently learned. 3. Thou shalt find in reading This Treatise many things which thou never mettest withal: specially some Scriptures sweetly explicated; and above the rest, that in the 1 of joh 3.9. which Bellarmine 
b Variae sunt ●ujus loci, qui omnium est difficillimus, expositiones Bellarm: de justif. l. 3. c. 15.  says is the hardest in all the Scripture, that is urged for perseverance in grace. Thou ●●alt also find, either that ●he Author had never ●ead any others that writ of this Subject; or if thou findest, for Substance, some of the same things, (as who can travail in such a way without trea●ding sometimes in the steps of former passengers,