DAVIDS palm AND CEDAR, showing the Reward of the Righteous.  
IN A SERMON PREAched at Eccleston Church in Lancashire; july, 25.1614. being the day of Dedication of Heskine school: Founded by Sir james Pemberton Knight, late Alderman and Citizen of LONDON.  
BY WILLIAM LEIGH Bachelor in divinity, and Pastor at Standish.  DANIEL. 12.3. 
They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars for ever and ever.  
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TO THE RIGHT worshipful, and Religious good Lady, the Lady Pemberton, grace be multiplied in this life, and glory in a better.  
Good Madam,  
AT what time it pleased Almighty God to put into Dauids heart,& Salomons hands to build him an house at jerusalem, that his name might be there; It is memorable, how in that great day of Dedication, the King did sanctify the same with his prayer, and honoured it with his presence; teaching us thereby, that david may purpose, and Salomon may perform, what God would haue done: and yet all in vain, if the Lord do not bless in both his own ordinance.  
The help of heaven was with that good Knight your late husband, of worthy memory, in his provision to build vpon the poor in many works of mercy: which he left for you Madam to be perfected in the honor of Christ, in his poor members, of which the world is full, wee can go to no Pulpit, but they pierce our hearts to provoke our speech.  
In tender whereof, it joyeth us much in these northern parts to hear, see, and feel, how fully you haue perfected a work so well begun, with a liberal augmentation of more mercy, and greater extent of bounty, then ever was intended or expected of many I am sure( his poor Allies and Kinsfolks here) whose daily prayers are with GOD, for that wherein you haue much enriched them.  
And especially in that worthy foundation of your Free school here at Heskyne, drooping much vpon the death of that Founder, for fear of future fall, till your Ladishippe take hold to perfect the work so well begun, with so comfortable a reflection, and aspect of future good, as now it hopeth in GOD ever to breath sweet like the savour of a field, which the Lord hath blessed.  
Saint james his day hath been the day of Dedication, from the foundation till now, where and when the eve hath been kept solemn for scholastical exercises( from the first day, and Master, who gave it first life a shining lamp, consuming himself to enlighten others) even down to these dayes, laudably performed by the Masters, ushers, and Schollers there, In their succeeding times, and now haue exceedingly well performed both in greek and latin, Prose and Verse. I leave it to the report of the judicious hearers, who heard it, and joyed much in their Acts.  
The eve so spent, the Feast was sacred for holy devotion in the parish Church of Eccleston, being your Ladyshippes pleasure, it should so bee kept, as formerly it had been; That those many Children, over whom you are now a careful mother, being sanctified with the word of God and prayer, might learn more chearefullie to sing Hosannah to the highest.  
The Prayers and Sermon so ended, your liberal heart and hand thought not good to dismiss the people,( after their soul solace,) without a blessing of some bodily repast, like unto that of our saviour Christ, when he said, give ye them to eat, which was readily done, and performed with cheerfulness.  
And now, good Lady, I do here present in private, and lay in your Ladishippes lap, what was then preached in public, then this my poor frame of palm and Cedar, special Materials in the fabric of the Temple, if Bezaliel or Hiram the widows son of Nephthalie were, to put them into the work: But they are dead, so is the Tabernacle and Temple too, with all it glory, all demolished and turned to dust, all butted in the bowels of Christ, as Saint Augustine saith, Ne populus rediret ad Iudaismum, left the people might return again to judaism.  
The substance being come in place, those shadow ● are vanished, for the Vale of the Temple is rent a sunder from the top to the bottom, and Christ hath now appeared in perfect beauty, a Minister of a better sanctuary, which the Lord hath pight and not man.  
Righteous men, the plants of his pleasure, are palms and Cedars of that glorious building, and a more cunning hand then either that of Bezaliel or Hiram hath framed them for the work; for Summa sapientia aedisicauit domum: 
Prou. 9. v. 1.  wisdom of wisdom hath built her an house: A palm and Cedar among the rest, the Lord God of heaven to make his work more glorious, hath there laid the soul and spirit of your loving husband, where are the souls of just and perfect men: he hath put him in the Register of the righteous, and why should either mischievous envy raize him, or foul oblivion leave him out? For my own parte, I may not dissemble, or divide either mine affection to him that dead is, or betray the truth of so exceeding great kindness as I haue received from your Ladyshippe from time to time, both towards myself and mine in London: for which I shall ever pray, that you may ever flourish, and grow green in the course of the Almighty, here a palm in grace, and there a Cedar in glory: Not doubting, but your Ladyshippe will take in good part these my poor pains, as a pledge of my lo●e; seasoned with my best prayers to GOD for your good Ladishippe, withall yours, ever to bee kept under his holy hand of pro●idence and protection:  
Amen, Amen.  
Standish, the fourth of May, 1615. Your ladyships most bound, WILLIAM LEIGH.   

DAVIDS palm AND CEDAR, showing the reward of the Righteous.  Psal. 92.12.13.14.15. 
The righteous shall flourish like a Palmetree, and shall spread abroad like a Cedar in Lebanon.  
Such as be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.  
They shall still bring forth fruit in their age they shall be fat and flourishing.  
To declare that the Lord my rock is righteo●s, and that none iniquity is in him.  
BEing called unto this place and presence, by her who may command me much, for that her care, cost, and conscience, is to bury Christ in the souls of these children: I did not consult with flesh& blood, but haue, as you may see, most willingly obeied the heavenly call, beseeching almighty God, without whose providence, nothing proceeds, and without whose metcy, nothing is saved, that he would bee aiding, helping, and propitious, as in this, so in all other like works of mercy, of which these our chillary dayes of decayed devotion, are but too could and dainty.  
And because the life of a Christian is a mixed web wrought vpon comforts and troubles: pardon me a while to blend in both, I mean in sorrow and solace; In sorrow, for the loss of our late Founder, and yet in solace, for his deceiving Lady, whose longing desire is, as you may see, to give life and light to all his holy actions.  
When Rahel died, 
Gen. 35. v. 19, 20.  jacob with all his friends and family mourned her funerals, he butted her in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlem, and erected a pillar vpon her grave, which is called Rahels pillar unto this day.  
Such is our sorrow in this dayes solemnity, a day of life, and yet a day of death; wherein, though jacob the husband be dead, yet Rahels care is to keep him in life, and so to lap him in her love, as his memory may be blessed for ever.  
His death was natural, and his obsequies honourable; so much the more honourable, in that he was religiously butted in the way to Ephrath, which is, Bethlem judah: where Christ was born, there was he butted; for as he lived in his fear, so he died in his faith, with an assured hope of a most glorious resurrection, never to die again, when sin and time shall be no more.  
So now, what remaineth to the succeeding ages, either for imitation, or admiration of his faith to God, or charity towards men; but that a pillar should bee erected vpon his grave, done as you may see, by the ready hand, and religious heart of his loving consort, who hath put both spirit and life into al his holy actions; wishing me, this day it should bee preached here, as an Inscription vpon his grave; That the Marble ston that covereth him, should sooner turn to greet, then the memory of this righteous branch should be forgotten, or the hope of his resurrection wear out.  
For my own part, I loved him in his life, and therefore may not but honour him in his death, and poure vpon his blessed head this my poor balm, to bury him withall.  
The balm I power out, is the word I red, breathing sweet as perfume from the mouth and spirit of david, that sweet singer of Israel: He powred it vpon the head of all just men; and why should it miss this righteous branch? who flourishing in his life, may not whither in his death; for the righteous shall flourish like a palm three, &c.  
That which david spake in particular of himself; now he sheweth it to appertain to all the faithful: for the promises of God made unto his Church, are not for a few, but they are for all; and then are they made private, proper, and peculiar, when every mans faith applieth them unto himself, 
joh. 20. v. 16. jo. 20. v. 28.  and can either say as Mary did vpon the sight, Rabboni, or as Thomas did vpon the touch, my God, my Lord.  
The Prophet therefore in this psalm comparing state with state, that of the wicked, with this of the godly, doth show, that although the bough and blossom of sinners for a time seem sayre in this world; yet is their flower of no continnance, but is soon cut down, and withereth, while the righteous man fearing God, is happy in his life, and blessed in his death, ever flourishing like a Rose of Sarum, and a lily of the valley.  
Made good in this place by two apt Similitudes: One of the palm three; the other, of the Cedar: as if he should say, the wicked shall whither, and be cut down like grass; but the righteous shall flourish like a palm three, and spread abroad like a Cedar in Lebanon: where, for the eafier carriage of the whole, four things are of special note, and worthy your observation.  
First, that the righteous shall flourish: Theres a necessity.  
Secondly, how he shall flourish; to wit, like the flourishing palm, and lofty Cedar, theres an eminency.  
Thirdly, why he shall flourish: for that he is planted in the house of the Lord, theres his piety.  
Fourthly, the end of his flourishing, to declare, that the Lord my rock is righteous, and that none iniquity is in him, theres his profession.  
Pardon me a while to solace both myself and you by these waterfalls of so heavenly a doctrine, and while the springs thereof issue from under the threshold of Gods Sanctuary, go with that current, and make conscience; both what, and how you hear; for cursed is he that doth the work of the Lord negligently: its true, as well of idle hearers, as idle Preachers.  
But because mention is here made of the righteous, a word frequent in the Scriptures of God, and of diuers acceptions; give me leave for the better understanding of the Text, to resolve it into it parts, thereby to make known unto you, what righteousness or iustice it is, the Prophet here speaketh of.  
And first, there is an essential iustice, and that is onely in God and his Christ, of which it is truly said, 
Ps. 85.11,  Truth hath flourished from the earth,& righteousness hath looked down from heaven: 
Pro. 8.31.  This righteousness leaped down from the height of all sublimity, and hath solaced itself within the compass of our earth, then when Christ invested himself in the womb of the blessed Virgin, and so became both a righteous God, and a righteous man, to justify that truth which was said of old: I will, saith the Lord, 
Ie●●m. 23. v. 〈◇〉  bring forth the branch my seruant, I will raise unto david a righteous branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, he shall execute Iustice and iudgement vpon the corth.  
And promiscuously this righteousness may be attributed to all three persons; To that just God, whence all righteousness is derived; To that just man, actually doing all, and passibly suffering for all; The just for the unjust: To that just Mediator, even Iesus Christ the righteous, clearing the sinner in the sight of his father, not by translating his righteousness, as Osiander would haue it, from himself vpon us, but by imputation of his for us, according to that of david: Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sin. 
Psal. 32. v. 1.2.  Finally, this is that just judge, into whose hands all iudgement shal be devolved at that dreadful day, when he shall come with his fan in his hand and judge according to that wee haue done in this life, be it good or evil. And lastly, to that righteous Spirit breathing where it will, when it will, and as it will.  
2 But besides this essential iustice in God, and in Christ, there is an accidental righteousness in us Christians.  
And that is either legal or evangelical: legal by injunction delivered from Horeb: in fear and fire, whose Rule is the level of the law, and who is able to keep it?  
evangelical righteousness is by Imputation, as wee haue said, sealed with the blood of thy saviour, and the level thereof is love, a iustice denied to none, who deny not him; but shrowd themselves under that righteous branch, whose shadow is a shelter to all his Saints, like the shadow of a mighty rock in a weary land.  
In right whereof, 
Gen. 18. v. 23. ad finem.  I may pled with my God, as Abraham did for sodom; so I for my sins, Shall not the judge of all the world do according to right: O God, thou hast forgiven my sins, and punished them in my Christ; therefore may thou not of right neither detain them, or punish them again in me; for what if I haue done any thing amiss, whereby thou mayest justly condemn me; yet hath my Christ lost nothing, but that he may justly save me; His righteousness is is mine, and he hath bid me put it on, a rob for my wearing, though not of my weaving, as were the royal robes of Aaron.  
Moses hand was leprous while it was in his own bosom: 
Exod. 4.6.  so is mine in my own righteousness, but taken out,& put into the print of his nailes, and thrust into his sore side: I am made clean with doubtful Thomas, 
jo. 20. v. 28.  and dare say, My God, my Lord. Thy wounds are wide enough to let out thy mercies, thy wounds are deep enough to keep in thy iustice.  
Abraham must out of his own Country, away he must from his own people, and fathers house, if he will to Canaan: so must I from my own perfection, holinesse, and righteousness, if I will win heaven; I and the child will go alone, so said Abraham, of his beloved Izaack: I and my Christ will go alone, so saith the sinner of his beloved saviour: O we● said Mary, 
Luk. 1. v. 49.  He that is mighty hath done to me great things, and holy is his name: Fecit mihi, nec in me, nec per● me: neither in me, nor by me, but to me, and for me: Acknowledging herself no Agent, but a poor Patient, in the blessed work of her own, and our Redemption by Christ, whom she carried more faithful in her hart, then she did in her womb, for her salvation.  
I may conclude, and so close up the doctrine of mans righteousness thus, Cunctorum in Carne perfectorum imperfecta perfectio est: Mans perfection is imperfection, and all his righteousness is like a stained cloath.  
Wee are not the beautiful gate, but as the beggar that there beggeth an alms: O well said david, 
Psal. 4. v. 1  hear me when I cry, O God of my righteousness: Acknowledging his righteousness to bee Gods creature, and none of his: and therefore turneth to him, as doth the Marigold towards the sun, then fairest, when it is highest, but death, and closeth in it declination.  
Where it may be david yet meaneth an other righteousness, not yet mentioned, to wit, his personal innocency, in regard of any evil he intended against Saul, laying down the equity of his cause before his just God.  
As, and if he should say, Oh my God thou knowest the Innocency of my heart, mouth and hand, I never thought him evil, I never spake him evil, I never did him evil.  
I fought his battels with many a wound, I married his daughter Michal with many a scorn, I abated the fury of Sauls spirit with much danger, I fled his presence with much patience, when I saw him moved, and let the wilderness of Moan bear witness to my mournings, because of his indignation; I loved his son jonathan as my own soul; and thou cave of Adullam witness with me how I reverenced Sauls presence when I might haue spilled his person;& yet for all this am I accused of disloyalty, treason, and open rebellion hear me, O hear me when I cry, O God of my righteousness.  
Augustin saith well; dvo sunt ti●… bi necessaria, Fama,& Conscientia, Conscientia propter te, fama propter alio●… There bee two things necessary for thee, a good name, and a good conscience, a good name, in respect o● those that are without; a good conscience in regard of that which is within; In regard of both, thou maiest well pled innocency and righteousness, if thou bee faultless as david was: And this is called a personal righteousness, in respect of a particular wrong offered against the innocent.  
4 Lastly, there is another righteousness, and that concerneth our honest carriage& holy conversation in this world, always joined with the fear of God, and upright dealing towards men.  
Holy men in their holy Escripts, when they praise any, 
job. 1. v. 1. Gen. 18. v. 19. Luk. 1. v. 6 Act. 10. v. 1.2. 1. Thess. 2. v. 10.  they praise him thus, a just man, and fearing God. So job, so Abraham, so Zachariah, and Elizabeth, so Cornelius, and so Christ, were crwoned with the Diadem of this righteousness: yea, and of this very righteousness joyed the blessed Apostle, when he said: ye are witnesses; and God also, how holily and justly, and vnblameable we behaved ourselves among you that beleeue.  
Nor may we think that the grace of God. that bringeth salvation unto all men hath appeared, that wee should live wickedly; 
Titus. 2. v. 11.12  but teacheth rather that wee should deny ungodliness, and worldly lusts, and that wee should live soberly and righteously, and godly in this present world.  
And now conceive me my brethren, that I may close with my Text, this of holy conversation, with that of imputation, is the righteousness whereof david speaketh, and sets as a triple crown and Diadem vpon the head of the blessed; I mean, to live soberly in respect of ourselves, to live righteously, in respect of others; and to live godlily, in respect of God himself; Hoc opus hic labour, This is the work and model of all our righteousness.  
So then, we are justified by Christ his righteousness imputed, by the holinesse of our works, declaring the same, and by a lively faith, rightly apprehending and applying the same to Gods glory, and the salvation of our souls for his Christs sake; And so to the several branches of my Text.  

Where first I may say with david, 
Ps. 9.16.  Higgaion, Selah; This is worthy to bee noted in the silence of our souls, that the righteous thus justified in the sight of God, thus justified in his own conscience, and thus justified before men, shall flourish like a palm three,& spread abroad like a Cedar in Lebanon: He shall prosper, he shal prosper, Non vrgente facto, said disponente Deo, The Lord will so haue it.  
It is said of Pharaoh his dream, 
Gen. 41. v. 32.  that it was doubled, both because of the certainty, and expedition thereof, the better to assure thee, of the blessed and flourishing estate of the righteous: The Spirit of God in david hath more then doubled the dream; for he hath rivitted the nail four times with a steady hand; he shall flourish, he shall prosper, he shall grow, he shall bee fat and well liking.  
The Lion hath roared, who will not be afraid; the Lord hath spoken, who can but tremble, I will harden Pharaoh his heart, and who shall soften it: I will soften Cleopatres heart, and who shall harden it: The wicked shall bee cut down and whither like graffe, and who shall make it grow; but the righteous shall flourish like the palm, and what wind shall be able, either to break, or blast a bough thereof?  
job was a just man in the land of Hush, 
job. 1. v. 1. &c.  one that feared God, and eschewed evil, Satan with God would haue dearned his light and glory, by spoiling him of all worldly comforts: so would his three friends, the Temanit, the Shuit, and the Naamathit, haue provoked his patience, by urging him to despair; but neither Satans cruelty, nor those miserable comforters could break, or blast that righteous bough, but it must flourish& spread like a Cedar in Lebanon.  
joseph was a just man and a righteous, 
Gen. 37. v. 24.28.  his unkind brethren leaving him in the dearne pit at Dothan, and selling him over to the Ismeelites; they together with Potephers wife, sought how to sack his honour, and to bury him in oblivion: but they could not, for Iosephs bough must prosper, and spread to the protection of his fathers family, and of all Egypt: 
Gen. 41, v. 41. adv. 46.  joseph must bee advanced into the best Chariot Pharaoh had, save one; he must wear his signet and golden chain, Abrech must bee the peoples applause over joseph, which his tender father, and Zapnath-Paaneah the expounder of secrets must be his name.  
Both jew and gentle banded themselves together against our Christ, to haue blotted out the name& memory of that righteous branch, from under heaven: he was despised, and rejected of men, a man full of sorrows, cut out of the land of the living, killed vpon the cross, and committed to the grave with hope of an eternal obsequy, never to breath any mote: but neither that corrupt judge, nor jury, with all the torments malice could devise, no cross, no curse, no watch, no seal, no ston, no hell, or grave, 
Mark. 16, v. 19. & Rom. 8. v. 34.  could keep him from the right hand of his father, but there must he sit in Potioribus Dei, to pled our cause, led captivity captive, and give gifts unto men: yea, and there to triumph over hell and death, both for himself and vs. The righteous shall flourish, &c.  
Arise, 
Isay. 52.2.3.  arise, ye righteous buds, put on your strength O ye rede●med of the Lord, put on the garments of his beauty, shake yourselves from the d●st; 
Psal. 45.  arise, and sit down in safety, for ye are branches of that vine that never withereth. Of which, both vine and branches I may safely say, Prosper with thy glory, Ride vpon the word of truth, of meekness, and of righteousness, and thy right hand( nay rather thy righteous hand) shal teach thee terrible things.  
And let this suffice to haue proved, that the righteous shall prosper, notwithstanding all the mischief, malice can devise; there is no counsel against the Lord, its but a weariness to wrestle with his might, there is no resistance where there is no proportion of opposition: In his greatest weakness is his greatest strength; and his power cannot be limited.   

Next in place cometh to be considered, how the righteous shall flourish, which is his Eminency: He shal flourish like the engraff.  
Plinie writeth, that of all the trees that grow, 
Lib. 16. Prop●rties of the palm.  the palm is best for burden, which made Utrivius to say, Sub ipso pondere formicatur, Weight makes it wanton; for the more it is prest, the more it riseth above it burden. 
I speak to scholars:  
Nititur in pondus Palma& consurgi● in alium,  
Quo magis& premitur hoc magè: tollit onus.  A beautiful emblem of the Church of God, ever rising in it ruin, prospering in it persecution, and best pleased when it is most prest; meaning the flourishing branches thereof, to rejoice in their afflictions, and to say with solace, 
Gal. 6.14.  God forbid that I should rejoice in any thing, but in the cross of Christ, whereby the world is crucified unto me, and I to the world.  
Signifying thereby likewise, as Basil saith, That the Church of God is like to Moses bush, which the more it burned, the less it consumed: So is the Church, ever dying, and yet never decaying, conquering in it patience, and living in it blood.  
The conclusion is good, to all you that would bee righteous; resolve, resolve, that then ye begin to bee fined for God, when ye begin to be afflicted in this world: The finest wheat must bee wynnowed ere it be clean, The stateliest pillar of porpherie must bee hammered ere it bee smooth. The best balm must be broken ere it smell sweet, and ere Camamell grow green, thick or sweet, it must be prest with often treading: so must the purest gold bee fined in the gloing furnace of fire, ere it be of price with men: What the fan is to the Winnower, what the Hammer is to the Porpherie, what the mortar is to the balm, and what the burden is to the Date three; that, affliction and pressure is to the righteous man: In his cross is his crown, and when he is humbled on earth, then is he most honoured in heaven.  
again, it is written of the palm or Date three; for all is one, that there is both a male and a female of that kind, and that they are of so liking& loving a disposition, that they live& die together; insomuch as if the male be but removed into an other ground, the female vailes her highest branch, ever bending both bole and bough, the way he is gone, and still withereth till she be dead.  
Aptly compared to Christ and his Church, never desiring to live longer then shee may grow with him,& in him, the branches with her vine, the members with her head, the bridegroom with her Spouse, and the Sinner with her saviour, here in grace, and there in glory, where true joys are to be found.  
This made the righteous of all ages so impatient of separation, when by cruel persecution the tormentors would haue divided them from their God and Christ; yet did they ever bow and bend towards the place& ground where their beloved was, for their consolation was in heaven, and with good courage they challenged all the creatures of God, both high and low, that none should bee able to separate them from the love of God which was in Christ Iesus their Lord; crying out with passion, as Ruth did to Naomy, 
Ruth: 1. v. 16.17.  entreat me not to leave thee, nor to depart from thee; for, whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou dwellest I will dwell, thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die,& there will I bee butted; the Lord do so to me and more, if either death or life depart thee& me.  
3 Thirdly, it is said of the palm, that snee ever turneth towards the sun, and that her leaves spread furthest when the shine is at the fairest.  
The son of righteousness is the light and life of the righteous, and whats their longing desire, but that the light of his countenance may shine vpon them. The lower that the sun is, the longer is your shadow, and the higher it goeth, it is the shorter; while the sun is before you, your shadow is behind you, and you see it not, but turn your back vpon it, and you see nothing but shadows; would you see your Christ in perfect beauty, dearned with no fin or shadows of legal law or ceremonies; look him in the face when he is at the fairest; but and if you turn your back vpon him, Vmbra rerum will be your ruin, you see nothing but shadows, and you loose the substance for the shadow.  
The Eagle when shee would try her young, which are true born birds and which are bastards,( say they) shee bears them up into the brightest sun beams, while they are tender, and yet not downed; and if with open eyes they look vpon the sun, then shee taketh them as her own; but if they shut their eyes at the brightness thereof, then shee casts them out, as base birds and castrels.  
So may you try the children of God, who are faithfulll, and who are faithless, who are true born Israelites, and who are not; if they can look vpon their Christ and his righteousness with open eyes, if they can look him fully in the face, and dazzle not at the brightness of his glory, then are they generous birds, and may soare with him above the height of all sublimity: 
Isaiah. 53. v. 2.3.  but if as it is in the Prophet, They hid their faces from him, and say, he hath no form nor beauty, that wee should desire him; then repute them as a base birth and degenerate, good for nothing, but to be cast out of the land of the living.  
4 Lastly, they writ of the palm; that when her leaves are fallen, and her branches withered, dead and rotten, from the top prynne to the lowest roote; yet even thence the sun sucketh a new juice, and giveth it a renewed life, of many more yeares then formerly it had.  
Such is, and shall bee the resurrection of the righteous man, 
Eccles. 12. v. 1. &c.  when the flower of his youth begins to whither, and the yeares approach, wherein he saith, I haue no pleasure in them, when the Keepers of the house begin to tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, when the grynders cease, because they are but few, when they wax dark that look out by the windows, and the doors are shut without, by the base sound of the grinders. Nay more,( and to be brief, mans misery in the forlorn hope of his declining age,) when all the daughters of singing shall bee abased, when the Almond three shall flourish, the grasshopper shall bee a burden, and concupiscence shall be driven away, with many a weary and wakery night.  
Yet man so tending to the house of his age, whiles the mourners go about in the street, because the grave hath devoured him, corruption hath possessed him, and rottenness hath consumed his bones, yet shall he bee renewed to a better life, by the son of righteousness Iesus Christ; prophesying and breathing over these dead bones thus; O ye dry bones, 
Ezek. 37. v. 4.12. &c.  hear the word of the Lord, Behold my people, I will open your graues, and cause you come out of your sepulchers, and place you in your own land; then shall ye know, that I the Lord haue spoken it,& can perform it.  
And thus, my dear brethren, are wee well assured of a royal resurrection from the dead, in,& through the virtue of Christ his resurrection, wherein( as the Apostle saith) he hath mightily declared himself to be the son of God, as in the conquest of sin and death, both for himself and us: In regard whereof, we may say, with a godly Ovation, Death, 
1. Cor. 15. v. 55.57.  where is thy sting? hell, where is thy victory? Thanks bee to God, which hath given us victory through our Lord Iesus Christ.  
And so to the rest, 
The Cedar with her properties.  even from the flourishing palm, to the solid Cedar, wherein the wisdom of God in david, seconds the similitude of the palm, with the semblance of the Cedar, as and if the excellency of the one, without the other, were not sufficient to express the blessedness of a righteous man.  
Now of all growing trees there is no doubt, but the Cedar is chief, first, for strength: 2. for length: 3. for diuturnity: and 4. for fruitfulness: So is the godly, just and righteous man.  
The wicked flee when none pur●… eth him; 
Prou. 28. v. 1.  but the righteous are bold 〈…〉 a lion; their perfect love expel●… th all fear; I say his love to God& ●… s truth, is strong as death, cruel as ●… e grave, and the coals thereof as a ●… ehement flamme.  
In this strength stood righteous david, when he said, What is this ●… roud Philistin, that he should revile ●… he host of the living God: In this ●… trength stood Caleb as strong as ●… eel, when he desired to possess Hebron, and to encounter with the Anakims: 
Hester. 4. v. 16.  Of like strength was Hester, when armed with her righteous cause, shee pr●ssed vpon the King with this resolution, I will go in,& if I die, I die.  
As, and if he should haue said with Saint Paul, I can do all things in him that comforteth me: I dare adventure vpon any difficulty, I fear no death, I dread no danger. mark I pray you, Omnia possum, a strong faith in a frail vessel, an omnipotent power in an impotent flesh: The faith of the righteous, bee it never so little, it cannot be less then a grain●… of mustard-seed, and yet it is strong enough to remove mountaines.  
All this to teach the righteous that the grace of God is sufficient fo●… them, 
2. Cor. 12. v. 9.  that his power may bee mad●… perfect in their weakness; Sampso●… strength was in his hairs, and wha●… so weak as hairs. To lesson us ye●… further, 
2. Cor. 22.  that wee take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in persecutions, in anguish for Christs sake, tha●… when wee are weak, wee may be strong.  
Thus conquered the Martyres i●… sire and blood, whom the world was not worthy of, Vrebantur, Cedebantur, Torquebantur tamen multiplicabantur▪ They were burned, they were bea●en, they were racked, and yet they increased; yea, and in all these things, they were more then conquerors in him that loved them.  
2 ye see the strength of the Cedar. Now let us see how for length, it may parallel the righteous man. They say, of all the trees that grow, it is the highest, and like a Piramis, ever pointeth at the height of heaven, The greatest beauty of Salomons Temple stood in the strength& length of Cedars, fetched from Hiram, and fallen in Lebanon for bases, bords and beams, all other trees being too weak and short for that glorious building.  
The righteous man as he is strong in the faith; so are his thoughts elenated above the height of all sublimity; for his conversation is in heaven, where Iesus Christ that righteous branch sitteth on the right hand of his Father: Great is the extent of his faith, that reacheth from the nethermost hell to the highest heaven: for the soul of the righteous is not where it lives, but were it loues: Oculimei semper ad dominum. 
Psal. 25. v. 15.  Oh it was an heavenly Inspection, and good it was in Ezechias, when tossed vpon his weary bed, from the wall to the welkine; He turned his watery eyes, 
Isay 38. v. 14.  and said, Attenuatisunt occuli mei suspicientes in excelsum: Mine eyes dazzle with looking towards thy brightness.  
The use is good, Iacobs head lay low, when he slept vpon the ston, yet his thoughts were on high& his soul scaled the heauens: He sought a Leader to Haram; but he found a Ladder to heaven; 
Gen. 28. v. 12.  his meditations were mixed with no mortal mould, they taught the highest glory: so are the righteous in their repose, they never rest but in the bosom of their Christ, and like a Piramis they ever point upward: What should I say more; for strength, righteous men are Cedar beams in the building of their God; and for their length, they reach from wall to wall.  
3 Thirdly, I may say, for durableness, that the Cedar is of an immortal being.  
And therefore Digna Cedrocanere, was a provver be used of old, when any man would urge for songs, subiects of Eternity; so may I say, that the oak at Marme, the hard Marble, and the solid Cedar, shal sooner grinned to greet, and turn to dust, then the memory of the righteous shall bee forgotten, their strength abated in the way, or their dayes shortened, either in grace or glory: no dayes, no yeeres, no time, shall ever blot out or blemish their blessedness; but they shall still flourish, and grow green in their life, in their death, and after death, in all eternity, when time shall bee no more.  
proverbs the third, 
Pro. 3. v. 16.  wisdom is brought in like a beautiful queen, and a liberal Lady, with her hands full, to bestow vpon her dearest friends, length of dayes, being in the right hand, and in the left hand riches and honour.  
Now, who are these fair friends, but the righteous seed, and such as fear God: They tell us of many means to preserve life, and to cure maladies, as pills, potions, and cordials, they tell us of oils, waters and metals; but if all this were clapped in one, they are nothing to the fear of God, either in giuing health, or prolonging life: Of whom it is true that Abigal spake of righteous david: 
1. Sam. 25 v. 29.  The soul of the righteous shall bee bound in the bundle of life with the Lord their God: he shall defend them in life, and preserve them in death; for death shall never come before they may comfortably bid it welcome: To justify that of job, he shall deliver thee in the six tribulations, 
job. 5. v. 19.20.  and in the seventh, they shal not touch thee.  
But will some man say, how is it then that many times the righteous perish, and merciful men are taken away, and are often prevented with an untimely death: Its true indeed, as the Prophet saith, they are taken away, but from vengeance to come, and though they bee prevented with an untimely death, yet shall they rest in an eternal life.  
He pleased God saith Salomon of Enoch, 
Wisdom. 4. v. 10. &c.  and was beloved of him, so that where he lived amongst sinners, he translated him: and he was taken away, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his mind: though he was soon dead, yet fulfilled he much time, for his soul pleased GOD, therefore hasted he to take him away from wickedness.  
The conclusion is good for this point, and so I hast to the rest. 
1. joh. 2. v. 17.  This wicked world passeth away, and the lusts thereof vanish; but he that fulfilleth the will of God, abideth ever.  
4 Lastly, the Cedar is fruitful unto the end, and it beareth best in it old age, the fewer leaves, the fuller of fruit, and as the first fruit faileth, the latter ever buddeth.  
So are the righteous who trust in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is, they bear their fruit without flourish, show or semblance of palliated piety, the very pest of all religion, while the hypocrite doth onely flourish in his leaves, 
2. Tim. 3. v. 5.  having a show of godliness, as the Apostle saith, but still denieth the power thereof.  
It may bee that the axe of iudgement is now and then laid to the root of the righteous; but it neither hacketh nor heweth it down, and why? he beareth fruit, and bringeth it forth in due season; he bringeth forth new fruit according to his moneths: his fruit is for meat, 
Ezech. 47. v. 12.  and his lease is for medicine, because the springs that run out of the Sanctuary, do water his growth, that is, the shower of Gods grace is ever distilling vpon his buds; and therefore he is blessed both in his leaves, and in his fruit.  
And hear, O my God, behold how I am troubled, my bowels swell, mine heart is turned within me, I am full of heaviness, because of the worlds barrenness, we are like the heath in the wilderness, 
jer. 17. v. 6.  wee inhabit the parched places in a salt land, and not inhabited, our apple are like the fruit of sodom, faire to the show, but vpon the touch turn to dust and sinders; we believe in some measure, but wee live in none; wee led not the life of the gospel: Oh that our good fruits were answerable to the green leaves of our profession, then should wee not bee idle hearers of the Law, but doers too, neither deceivers of ourselves, nor betrayers of our own souls.  
Be it spoken therefore to the barren soil of both professions; neither shall your faithless works, O ye Papist, nor your worklesse faith, 
Heb. 11. v. 6.  O ye Protestants, ever make you righteous before the Lord, till you haue truly put on both: for as without faith it is not possible to please God; so without holinesse of life, it is not possible to see the Lord; you haue Scripture for both.  
Lucian, played with the men of his dayes, as well wee may with ours, when he feigned the gods to sit in Parliament, every one to make choice of the three he most fancied; where it is said, that jupiter choose the oak for it strength, Apollo the Bay three for it greenness, Neptune the poplar for it length, juno the Eglentine for sweetness, and Venus the myrtle three for it beauty. Minerua sitting by, demanded of her father jupiter what might be the reason, that sith there was such store of fruitful trees, they all made choice of such as were fruitless? To whom jupiter answered, Ne videamur fructa honorem vendere, we gods may not chaffer our honour for fruits. Well said Minerua, do as you list; but I for my part will choose the olive for it fatness; whereat her father was much ashamed, and commended Mineruas choice before his own; and all the rest.  
careless Christian, why smilest thou? De te narratur fabula: The tale is true of thee; for even so is the chaffie choice of our different trees in this declining world, all are for pleasure, few for profit; they love their greatness, 
judge. 9. v. 9.  they love their greenness, they love their sweetness, and they love their be auty; but where is the man that maketh Mineruas choice and with the conceive droppeth down fatness, wherewithal both God& man are honoured. Surely Minerua is but a fiction; but were our wits well seasoned with holinesse, and our tongues with truth, wee would better tax both the great, and dimy gods of this age, with indiscretion, while they catch at shadows, and lose the substance, still disdaining to chaffer their honour with our fruit.  
Well, I say no more, but the fruit we tender them is godliness, and godliness is great gain, and yet few catch at it, 
1. Tim. 6. v. 6.  it is profitable unto all things, which hath the promise of the life present, and of the life to come: and yet I know not how, but it is a weariness to walk in it, it is a danger to speak of it: Let none rebuk or reprove an other with the proud poasie of Israel: 
Hosea  I pray God it may never be the poafie of England, nor that wee should become your enemies for telling you the truth: theres a blessed enmity so to preach, theres a cursed amity so not to preach.  
They that wear soft raiment are in Kings Courts, soft& oiled tongues I know not how, but they warble too much both in Court and Country: What went ye forth to see, said Christ of John, a reede shaken with the wind: No, no, ye found him a steady Cedar: Non est calamus, non est homo mollis& aulicus: John is no reed, John is no soft or courtly Preacher: he pierced their harts with the doctrine of repentance, for the remission of sins.  
The Lord God of heaven give us grace to be faithful in his house, as Moses was, and to keep nothing back of his mercies, or of his judgements, either for fear, or flattery, of any transitory majesty in this world: and so to the rest.   

Next in pla●e cometh to be considered, where, and why the crown and diadem of the righteous is so renowned, flour●shing& bossed with blessings: The reason is readily rendered, by the words of my Text: He is planted in the house of the Lord, and therefore he shall flourish in the Courts of his God; The palm and Cedar grow not in every ground, the palm is for judea, and the Cedar is for Lebanon: and the sweetest rose is for Saram; so are the righteous not for every soil, but they are righteous because they are planted in the house of the Lord; every lamb is not for the sacrifice, nor every three for the fabric of the Temple; no more is every earth a like for the righteous to plant in.  
They must be plucked out of old Adam, and planted into new Christ; the first soil was nought, and therefore they are removed into a better ground; yea, and grafted into that vine that never withereth, either in itself, or in it branches: And thus they become an holy Colony, planted no where but in domo Iehouae, licking up the dust of the Sanctuary, and therefore flourishing in the courts of their God, here in grace,& there in glory.  
We hear that in Virginia there is a Colony of Christians, planted in the Virgines son, and that righteous iudgement hath entred that land; the Lord of heaven prosper the growth thereof, in it flourish, in it flower,& in it fruit, and that longer lived, it may ever be better leaved, loaden with it burden of ripe fruit falling, and new blossoms blooming Cedar-like.  
And it encourageth me the rather for to pray; for that I see the promise of God to go with it growth, not onely in the several branches and members of the Church of old; but also in the whole body& bole thereof, deduced down even to these our dayes.  
All to make good the words of my Text, that the righteous shall bring forth fruit in their age, that they shall bee fat and flourishing: for are wee not fallen even into the last and worst dayes of the world: Surely, surely, Attigimus punctum, the very period thereof is vpon us, and yet I know not how, but as in an old and decrepit body, when the state thereof is more languishing and feeble, the soul is evermore hearty and heavenly: So is it now with the Church of God, though worn and wearied in this the declining state of this world: yet to God bee the praise, it doth flourish and bear fruit in more abundance, and in greater measure, then it did in many ages past. Cast your eyes over the continent of al Christendom, with the Isles adjacent, and from the high towers of heathenish Gogge and Magoge in their idolatry: look down into the valley of Becor, in it much piety, and ye shall see Miriades of saved souls, there walk from strength to strength till every one appear before their God in Sion, planted they are in Domo Iehouae, and therefore they shall flourish in atrijs Domini.  
The house of God is the nursery of his Saints to live in, and the courts of the Almighty is the Orchard of his delight for thē to flourish in, not for a time, but for ever, not for a few, but for a full family: for who can tell the dust of jacob, or the number of the fourth part of Israel: but O my God, let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end bee like his, and it shall bee sufficient for me, that I am but one, even an vnith of that infinite number.   

4 Lastly, to draw towards an end, and so to close with the souls of the righteous, whose glorious building is of palm and Cedar. Be it known unto you, that all your planting, flourishing, flower and fruit will fail you in the end, and like the fruit of Sodom fall to cynders, if it bee not sanctified, as with prayer, so with praise,& made perfect with profession; ye may not bee silent of the righteousness of the Lord, but ye must declare, that he is your rock, and that no iniquity is in him.  
Dauids harp and voice was never more tunable, then when he sung and said: 
Psal. 40. v. 10.  I haue not hide thy righteousness within my heart, my talking hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation, I haue not kept back thy loving mercies& truth from the great congregation. Is God in thy heart? let him be in thy mouth also: for thats the sweet perfume of thy profession, to speak to Gods glory, and to sing an H●lalijah to the Almighty, is heavenly, and well beseeming the sacred assemblies of men, and the highest Hierarchy of Angels.  
As speaking is a fruit of the spirit, so is it an effect of faith, to justify that, because wee haue the same spirit of faith, 
2. Cor. 4. v. 13.  according as it is written, I believed, and therefore haue I spoken, wee also beleeue, and therefore wee speak.  
So then, as in the natural body, there is an open passage from the heart to the tongue: so is there in the soul a beaten way, from the spirit to the speech; a religious heart will haue a religious mouth, a sanctified spirit, will haue a sanctified speech,& righteousness no sooner teacheth the heart to think it, but it striketh the tongue to speak it.  
A●d thus you see that you must declare, but what is the declaration. The righteous must put into this hi● Court of Iustice& mercy; even this, That the Lord is his rock, and that none iniquity is in him.  
As the cask savoureth within, so it venteth without, and the stomach breaths as it is affencted; if sound, thē sweet, if corrupt, then it stinketh: if the soul bee sanctified with spiritual righteousness, it doth abound with heavenly eloquence: 
Psal. 45. v. 1.2.  a good matter boiled in Dauids heart, and therfore grace was powdered in his lips.  
The hearts of the wicked are wickedly bent, and therefore with their tongues they shoot point blank at al impiety, and never miss it. The auarous mans talk is of his wedge of gold, and the Idolaters, of his god of gold; The garrish proud peacocks speech is of his coat of gold, and the ambitious conqueror, is of his mountains of gold: the drunkard with balthasar belcheth out blasphemy out of his bowls of gold. In a word, the talk of the wanton, is all of luxury,& the tongue of the busy body, is al o●… novelty, like the curious Athenians, who loved to hear and talk of nothing but news.  
But the righteous man and truly regenerate, is of an other season, his heart is better filled, his tongue is better filled; for he speaketh of God, he speaketh for God, he speaketh from God, and he speaketh to God.  
1 he speaketh of God, when he praiseth him.  
2 He speaketh from God, when he preacheth him.  
3 He speaketh to God when he prayeth him.  
4 And he speaketh for God when he defendeth his truth, and pleads the cause of the innocent.  
And thus the Prophet having put in his bill of complaint against the wicked, why they should so prosper in the world, as you may see in the precedent words of my Text: Now he doth declare for the righteous, that they shall flourish in the courts of the almighty, though they seem to whither; and he declareth from his own experience, how he in his particular hath found the Lord, even as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. The Lord my rock is righteous; and therefore I say that none iniquity is in him.  
It hath been grievous to the godly ever, even in the seas of their afflictions, to see that they should sink,& the wicked swim, to see seruants on horseback, and Princes go on foot; to see the Bramble breare prevail against the palm and Cedar.  
I cannot perceive, saith Esdras, 
2. Esdras. 3. v. 31.  how this cometh to pass, that the godly are plagued, and the wicked are spared, are the deeds of Babylon better then they of Sion?  
Surely nay, but it is a caution for the wicked, thereby to take heed,& be well warned; for if iudgement begin at the house of God, shall it spare the Satadel of sinners; and if the righteous scarcely shall bee saved, shall not the sinner sink, Scrutinum in Ierushalem, quid in Babilone tutam, will there be a search in jerusalem? what shall then become of Babylon?  
It much perplexed job to see the wicked in such prosperity they waxed old, 
John 21. v 7.8. &c.  they grew in wealth, their seed was established, their houses were peaceable, they hued without fear, and the rod of God was not vpon them, they sent forth their children in droves, and their sons in dances. The tabret, harp& orgā was in their Feasts: In a word, they spent their daies in wealth, while the righteous lived in woe& want: And could there be a greater trial? yet when he saw how suddenly they dropped down to hell, he knew their having was no heaven.  
The like temptation daunted david, 
Psal. 10. v. 5. &c. 73. v. 3. &c.  when he saw the wicked, how his ways did always prosper, he deemed his deuotions had been all in vain, and his foot had well near slipped, till he went to the sanctuary of his righteous God, and then he saw how they stood in slippery places,& that their habitation could no●where be found any more.  
jeremiah that mourn full Prophet was much in dispute with God about this argument, when he said; O Lord, 
Ierem. 12. v. 1. &c.  if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgements: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper, and why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgress? Thou Lord knowest me, thou hast seen me, and tried mine hart toward thee, and yet I whither, while they flourish in this wicked world.  
To all these bills of complaint, the declaration is out: 
Gen. 18. v. 25.  That the Lord is the rock of the righteous, and that none iniquity is in him: for, shal not the judge of all the world do according to right. And what is right? but even this, when the wicked grow as the grass, and all the workers of wickedness do flourish; that they shall whither in the end, and bee destroyed for ever, while the righteous shall flourish like a palm three, and spread abroad like a Cedar in Lebanon▪  
But bee not curious to search into the secrets of thy God, why the way of the wicked do often prosper, and why they are in wealth that rebelliously transgress: leave it, O leave it veiled behind the curtain of the Tabernacle, and talk we more with thy God of his judgements; sith he hath laid his finger vpon thy mouth, and enjoined thee silence, 
jer. 12. v. 5.  saying; If thou haue run with footmen, and they haue wearied thee, how shalt thou be able to match with horses,& if thou thought thyself safe at Anathoth a peaceable land, and was disquieted, what must thou do in the swellings of jordan?  
In the Interim, resolve of this without doubt or delay, that there is Dies& Deus vltionis, a day, and a God of reuenge, a day of death, and a day of doom, which two dayes once determined, down go the wicked, but the godly shall bee exalted; Horror, hell and death shall be the doom of the damned: heaven, ioy,& life shall bee the lot of the righteous: and therefore when you see here on earth things so vneuenly dealt; know the day will come, when the dowl shall bee more equally divided; till when& ever declare, that the Lord thy rock is righteous, and that none iniquity is in him.  
But now I see the hour is out,& with my Text the glass is run; yet pardon me in your patience, to pull back the dial vpon the wall some few degrees, and a while to repose under the shadow of the palm and Cedar, for whom I preach.  
Your Founder of worthy memory is dead to this world, but liveth in a better;& there he liveth now where true joys are to be found: the fair flower and flourish of this palm is perished by death; yet the ripe fruit of this Cedar, fallen into the lap of the needy will never die.  
he was a palm, and flourished in the most eminent place of the kingdom, even in the Kings City,& Chamber of London: Honourable in i● self, and famous throughout al the world; there he lived, and there he died, not as a private man; for the greatest offices of that gouetnment were cast vpon him, from time to time, which how he passed through, and with what credite, I spare to speak, lest I seem partial in my love towards him; but he is now gone, and may say frangantur sasces, priuatus ero: What advantage hath he now of those honours, whereof he might then haue boasted: are they not fallen from him by death, and vanished like a morning due? Surely they are, for when life left him, honours failed him, as they will do the greatest Monarchies of the world, in the day& hour of their dissolution.  
Yet of him I might say, as they of the palm, when her leaves, branches and boughs are withered: even from the highest sprig, to the lowest root, butted in the ground, that theres hope in the root of a glorious resurrection, when the son of righteousness shall shine vpon it,& give it a renewed life, never to die anymore, but ever to flourish green in the Courts of the Almighty; such solace and honour haue all his Saints.  
again, though the fair flower of his life bee thus fallen; yet the memory of his blessed works, as fruits of his faith will never die: The Lord by his liberal hand hath powred waters of comforts and instruction vpon his thirsty and dry ground; a Salary of fifty pounds per annum ever to endure; that the spirit of the Lord may breath vpon your seed, and his blessing abide vpon your bodies;& yet his hand is not shortened, but strerched out still, from this his school here, to the poor Hospitals in London, a thirsty ground, which he hath watered likewise, with 500. l. as a legacy of his love to Christ, and his poor members: Nor hath he been straightened in his bowels of compassion, either towards the poor prisoners that lie in could irons, relieved with 100. l. Or towards the poor of the Company of goldsmiths, with the bounty of 200. l. And lastly, 1200 l. freely given to his dearest& nearest of blood, his kinsfolks, lest happily they might say, he had forgotten his own flesh.  
Thus hath he stood up in the rank of the righteous, as a flourishing palm and a fruitful Cedar: The Lord hath gotten glory by him, and he is of them that hath left a name behind them; 
〈◇〉 5  so that their praise shall be spoken of.  
Behind him, how? and whither is he gone; the Lord hath removed him into a better soil: for the body is gone to the earth, from whence it came; but his soul is gone to God that gave it; Euolauit, its flown up, and like a Piramis of fire, it never stayed till it came to that light which is accessible. His religious life told him in his death, that he should die the death of the righteous; and therefore he hasted towards his Master Christ, as Hillarion did, when debating in frailty with his sad soul, loth to depart, he put it forward with an invincible courage thus; Egredere, quid times? Egredere, nima mea, quid dubitas? Septuaginta prope annis, seruisti Christo,& mortem times: go out my soul, why fearest thou to go out? these seventy yeares almost thou hast served Christ, and art thou fearful now to die? and so Animus victor annorum cedere nesciens infirmitati euolauit: His mighty mind conqueror of his many yeares slay up to God, not knowing how to yield to frailty.  
I may not forget how I told you of the palm, that there was a Male and a female of that kind, as also that the female being separated from her male will hang down her branches, and whither, turning, herself that way, whither her Male hath been carried.  
Its true indeed, that death hath made a separation, and the Male-Palme is in heaven. Now cast your eyes vpon the Female, and tell me whether shee doth not turn herself that way, whither the Male hath been carried; was there a purpose in his heart of any good to be done; and by him left undone, which shee hath not perfected? His loving Lady even this day hath learned towards you as he did: she hath laid you in her lap as a Nursing mother, and drawn out her breasts to give you the suck of sacred skill, with caution to your Master, usher, and scholars, that ye beware of the leaven of Popery. His will was, and her will is, that the children bee catechised weekly in the grounds of the orthodoxal faith, and with secular learning to be trained up in the language of Canaan, which and if you do, her purpose is still to do you more good: nor shall you ever find her other, till shee hear you be wanting or weary of well-doing: how she hath turned herself towards him in the rest of his holy purposes, to perfect them according to the trust and faithfulness he reposed in her, the world can witness, all Courts are silent, there is no plaintiue, and therefore there needs no defendant: theres no cry of oppression, theres no complaining in the streets. And therefore I spare to speak any more of her: leaving her a righteous branch of a female palm, leaning towards the soil and soul of her beloved husband, weeping over his grave for that he is not; but joying over his righteous deeds, for that the lustre thereof, is a glory to God, a relief to the poor, and a blessing to the world; not doubting, but because they were both planted in the house of their God, they shall together flourish in the Courts of the Almighty, never any more to bee separated by the violence of death, but to bee tied for ever in the bundle of the living. So God, onely wise, immortal, and independent, be honout, praise and glory, now and ever. Amen, Amen.   
FINIS.