Great Brittains warning piece, OR ENGLANDS TERROR: BEING An Exhortation to all people to avoid the threatenings of Gods Judgements, likely to come on us for our sins, by a speedy Repentance, and turning to God.  For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness, and unrighteousness of men, who held the truth in unrighteousness. Romans 1.18. Lo, thus saith God, I will execute Judgements upon you, and my fury shall go out like a fire, that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings: and I will punish you according to your actions, for I will kindle a fire in the midst of your forest, and it shall devour all things round about you, Jeremiah 21.13, 14. 
By William Knowles B. of P. 1662.  
London, Printed for F. coals at the sign of the Lamb in the Old-baily, 1662.   
Cry a loud, lift up thy voice like a Trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, Isa. 58.1. 

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By William Knowles B. of P. 1662.   

Hear the word of the Lord ye children of Israel, for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of our Land, because there is no truth, no mercy, no knowledge of God in the Land, but swearing, and lying, and killing, and steaing, and committing idolatrous abomination, and blood toucheth blood, therefore shall the Land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the air, and fishes of the sea shall be taken from the land, Hosea 4.12.  
CHristian friends, out of this Text of Scripture several Doctrines may be laid forth to this sinful Nation of England, and to the inhabitants thereof, the Lord is at a controversy with you for your abominable sins committed in the Land, not by a man alone, but by the general inhabitants of the whole Earth, you know and see daily how the poor people of this kingdom hath been afflicted by grievous diseases; there is not one town in the whole nation hath been free from the like affliction. O the heavy wrath of God is revealed from Heaven, and with fury is poured upon ungodly men! Repent and return from your evil way, and make your ways and doings good; for except we repent, we shall all likewise perish. O let us learn to bear the afflictions of God with patience; for know you whom God afflicteth, he loveth: for shall a Father never correct a Son with no affliction, but let him have his own will, he would not stand in awe of his threatenings, neither would he fear him at all: what then there is no other way for that man to bridle his son but by affliction, bringing him into some straight; as want, poverty, sickness, or imprisonment, or in any other tribulation?  
Lo, thus God deals with us chiefest by those whom he loveth: for when God finds us running into any abominable transgression, He afflicts first, our conscience; 2ly. Our bodies; And 3ly. our souls, which is an everlasting affliction, and terriblest of all. But first when our Conscience is afflicted, it tells us inwardly of all our filthy and evil abominations committed, both in thought, words and actions: what then by that affliction we should take warning and prevent the future danger, but most or all of us doth in a wretched manner, so slight our conscience for thinking of it that we take no heed at all till destruction comes and takes us away, running still into all manner of evil, and offending of our Lord God; nay we run into all dangers of sinning as can be nominated. O but think of the infinite mercy and goodness of God, who desireth not the death of a sinner, but had rather he would repent and live. O how kindly deals the Lord with us, he lays upon us some affliction to win us to trust in him, some he punisheth more then other some, according as they are able to bear, and according to his sweet and blessed will, some he strikes sick, some lame, some dead in the twinkling of an eye; none of us all knows at this present time whether we shall live till to morrow: for several causes God deals to people several properties; for some God takes out of the world because the world is not worthy of them: others again he takes out of the world because they are not worthy of the world. Lo thus God deals with the world, O the changes and chances of the world are such we are to day merry, to morrow sad, to day rich, to morrow poor, to day well, to morrow sick, to day alive, to morrow dead; Nay, we are none of us certain to live one hour longer, had we not need to have a great care to provide and make ready ourselves for God at what time soever he pleaseth to take us out of this world; for after death comes judgement to give to every man according to the fruits of his doings.  
So now let us consider the great affliction at this present time amongst us, and how we ought to call upon God in time of any trouble, as sickness, famine, fire, water, or any eminent danger, with the words of holy David, Psal. 25.16, 18. verses, turn unto us o God and have mercy upon us, for we are desolute and afflicted, the trouble of our hearts are enlarged: O bring us then out of our distresses, look upon our afflictions and our pains, and forgive us our sins. Dearly beloved Friends, have patience in afflictions, and murmur at nothing, for verily I say unto you, I do rather believe that it is our murmuring against the handy works of God, which is the chiefest cause of our dearness of Grain, and great Diseases. O how doth the rich Misers of the world vaunt themselves of their vain glory, thinking Grain never dear enough, nor uses no conscience in dealing falsely with the poor. O your wretched dealing wi●h the poor is the cause of Gods most wrathful and just indignation thus fiercly laid upon us! O how dare you presume to sin thus wilfully to the face of God, O it is the great mercy of the Lord we are not utterly destroyed: for lo the sword has been a long time amongst us, and hath tain thousands out of the world, and at this present sickness abound and grain is at an exceeding great rate, which foreshowes a famine in the Land, except a speedy and earnest repentance; if then these will not convince, nay, if these threatenings of the Lord will not recall you from your sins and turn you to the Lord by prayer, I do hold you to be absolute a reprobate, and on us the Lord will bring utter destruction; for the Lord will not be mocked at the hand of sinners; for saith God, I will show mercy unto thousands of them that loves me, but them that hates me shall utterly be destroyed; I am pitiful abundantly to sinners, but such as provoke my passion shall not go unpunished: what mad men of the world would provoke the Lord God to anger on this manner, the covetous man by his covetousness provoketh God sorely in making a God of his riches, the man by pride exalts himself in bravery; the adulterer, swearer, sabbath-breaker, liars, murderers, stealers, and all other extortional sinners, that the Lord is even weary of such a perverse Generation. O friends sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy, break up your fallow grounds, for it is time to seek the Lord till he comes and reigns righteousness upon the earth; yea you have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, and have eaten the fruit of lies, because thou didst trust in thine one way and mighty men, Hosea 10.9. seek God my friends and repent of your abominable transgressions, and walk not in ways that are evil, but say with holy Job, though terrors are turned upon us, and the day of affliction have taken hold on us, and our bones are pierced in the night, nor our sinews take no rest by the great force of our disease, Job 30.15, 16. but shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil: our God is the God of health and sickness, who can by his Almighty appointment throw us to day into great sickness, and in his good time raise us to our former health, give God thanks, for he hath loosed, and he will bind us up. Oh our sin of murmuring against the handiworks of God, doth so abound, disliking of Gods handiworks and the fruits of the earth before they came upon our grounds, saying, our crops are small, making themselves discontented at Gods love to the world; but the sweet counsel of the Apostle Paul, saith, at all times be content: this discontent dear friends and murmuring with God is the chiefest cause of this our great affliction. Dear Christian friends do you think that God is beholding to us for any thing, is not all things in his power to sand plenty or scarcity according to his blessed will; neither doth God care for the murmuring of men, but will reward you according to the works of your doings,& will utterly consume all things from of the land, Zep. 1.2. I will consume both man and beasts; Lo thus will the Lord deal with us for our iniquities, therefore O Nations gather yourselves together before the decree that the Lord brings forth, before the day passeth as chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord comes upon you, seek you the Lord all the meek of the earth which have wrought his Iudgement, seek meekness and righteousness, it may be you may be hide in the day of the Lords wrath: for as I live saith the Lord thou shalt be as sodom and Gomorrah, a perpetual desolation shall befall you, and the residue of my people shall spill them, Zep. 2.10. O England, England look to it, this is thy reward for thy murmuring against the Lord of Host, because you have reproached and magnified yourselves against the people of God, but we say, shall we give our first born for our transgression, the fruits of our body for the sins of our soul; O man the Lord hath shewed us what is good, and what he doth require of us, but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God, Micah 6.8. this is all the sacrifices the Lord desireth of the children of men, it is but a very small matter to do this, but with wicked and carnal men it is a hard and straight matter, but the righteous will perform it with ease& joy unspeakable& full of glory; ye the righteous will glory in the works of the Lord. Friends I entreat you not to glory in that which is evil, but in that which is good; for if you do not speedily repent you will utterly be consumed, ye utter ruin& utter destruction will suddenly come upon you; therefore to prevent the future glorify God at your going out& coming in, at your lying down, and rising up, for thus saith the Lord, I will be glorified in the midst of thee for thou shalt know that I am the Lord for I will execute judgement against thee, and I will sand pestilence and blood in your streets, and the sword shall be on every side to consume thee. And O London, thou proud City remember Jerusalem, and forget not God; for thou art threatened by Gods most heavy wrath as was Tirus, for behold, the Lord is against thee for thy abominable pride, thy haughtiness, thy fullenness: I need not look back on him who is the sender of these good things, but most wilfully dost thou offend thy Maker; thou a trade in buying and selling on the Sabbath day, O abominable transgressors, more evil then the devil; for he both believes and trembles: neither will you fear nor dread, your Maker and Almighty God. O bewail your wretched condition, and I beseech you with earnest desires to lay aside these vices, as game, or selling, buying, exalting pour selves in bravery, dishonouring of God on this manner as you do, God threatens you for this corrupted 'vice to shower down his wrath and vengeance upon you, the Sabbath-breakers of his glory, it is Gods market day; rob not God of his glory, and hinder not any coming to buy his merchandise which is far more better then rubies, and you may have it without money and without price, a regard also that hinders any man from coming to Christ; what, St. Paul saith, Thou child of the devil, wilt thou not come in thyself but hinder others also: But mark the threatenings of the Lord to thee, O London, thy daughters shall be slain with the edge of the sword, and I will set Ingens of war against thy Towers, and will break down thy walls for thy Idolatry and will slay thy people, and bring thy garrisons unto the ground and I will spoil thy riches and make a prey of thy merchandise,& will throw down thy famous buildings and pleasant houses with the stones and the timber; yea all thy famous works will I bring to nought, thy great riches, thy abundance of bread, thy brightness and multitude of wealth that is in thee hath brought vengeance upon thee yea in the midst of thee for thy haughtiness I will destroy thee, for thy heart hath lifted up itself with pride, yea and hatest the ways of God, by reason of whom the way of truth is defiled; yea a traffic that is used in this city have defild you, your abominable traffic on the sabbath day: thy whoring and ranging after other vices, by opinions, seditious heresies, and by ten thousand other vices which doth confounded us; nay faith the Lord, I will bring a fire in the midst of thee which shall devour thee, and quiter consume thee from the earth, in the sight of all beholders, and those that knew thee amongst the people shall be astonished at thee, and thou never shalt be more, Eze. 28.18. O England and London in chiefest, gather yourselves together, for it is time to seek the Lord; for great need have we at this present time, for you see that sicknesses, as plagues and pestilence are like to ensue except a timely and speedy repentance, and the Lord of his infinite mercy defend us from a cruel famine which is much to be feared by our scarcity of grain, and unseasonable weather; O mighty God amend it! O how shall we prevent this eminent danger; whither shall we sly for safety, but to the living God, who is a rewarder of the just, and a sore punisher of the unjust; repent therefore I beseech you, and gather yourselves together before the decree comes forth, before the day of the Lords fierce anger comes upon you: O seek the Lord all ●… he meek of the earth, seek to live righteously, ●… s your sins may be hide in the day of the Lords ●… rath, Zeph. 2.23. O let his Majesty the King ●… ok to all vices in his land, and to seek daily to ●… unish the wickedness of sin, and to establish ●… ighteousness through his Realm, it will both ●… trengthen power, and establish his throne in ●… eace, to the blessed happiness of this his King●… ome. O let no man in power and authority ●… o wrong, but with all power to stand up in a rightful cause; ye let all the land rich and poor give praise to God with tears& expression that cannot be uttered. O but let me look back upon the rich ma●,& consider his miserable estate, I mean such a rich man that rejecteth the poor; O but alas I bewail his unhappy condition, for I say unto you the estate of that rich man that despiseth the poor is most damnable, a compa●… ion for the Devil, and cursed upon earth; and ●… t is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, and a damned soul shall sooner ●… e eased of the torment of hell, then such a rich man to gain the glory of heaven; as for example, we have Dives in the gospel, that rich glut●… on, who despised poor Lazarus: nay he had no charity to relieve him with the crumbs that fell from his table, but rather reviled him with scourges, and I fear we have too too many of these cater-pillers, rich men that despise their poor brethren; yea they would let a poor man starv●… and die in the streets, ere they would reliev●… him; but the reward of those are to be pun●…shed in the everlasting fire of hell, where thei●… ugly and filthy damnable carcase shall be tormented both body and soul; yea I say hi●… wretched carcase will never die, nor the fire 〈…〉 hell will never be quenched. O Friends, wha●… will it then profit a man to gain the whol●… world to lose his own soul. O be charitable ric●… men, and grinned not so the poor for gain; for I must tell you 'twill profit you better to lay yo●… up one spark of grace in, by meriting gifts t●… the poor in great necessity, then it is to lay u●… and have in store the wealth of the whole world for the wealth and the glory of the world is a dust and filthy dung in comparison to the wort●… of Heaven: you had better be a door-kéeper i●… the House of God, then to sit on the throne o●… an earthly tabernacle. O rich men, regard I beseech you what here is spoken,& look upon you poor brethren that crieth for food in the street and remember the words of Christ, Luke 12●… 20. The poor they are always with you, but 〈…〉 am not always with you; but nevertheless a●… much as you do to the meanest of these poo●… people, I take it in as good part as you did i●… unto me, and your reward shall be great i●… the Kingdom of Heaven. Rich and poor I entreat you to serve the living Lord; for alas we have surely transgressed his laws and Commandments: O for a long season we have followed the frowardness of our own hearts, and the ways of God we have not known. O perverse generation who have wallowed in sin and followed pleasures a long time. O let us ●… je in sackcloth and ashes, and bewail our sad conditions; for sickness overtakes us, and famine destroys us, the sword has affrighted us, and our trading decays, yea all comforts forsakes us, and all comes through our abominable filthiness, and our woeful sinning against the Almighty: But woe, woe, saith the Lord, Isa. 3.14. to you rich men: O it shall be evil for you, because you have eaten up the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in their houses. O what mean you saith God, to grinned the faces of the poor, and to beat my people to pieces through your covetousness, and through pride: you do witness and declare as did Sodom; O but woe to your poor souls, for you have rewarded evil to yourselves: O how haughty are your daughters who walk with stretched out necks, wantonness, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; Therefore saith the Lord, will I smite this land with affliction of great diseases, and will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments, and it shall come to pass that instead of your sweet smells you shall have stinks, instead of brave attire, most filthy rags, and instead of pleasures, everlasting pain,& they who spent their time in worldly vanities upon earth which had end, shall lye in hellish torments in the next world without end. O friends, this is the portion of our famous City& the proud wantons therein, yea and by pride shal the great ones fall by the edge of the sword, and the land shall mourn and be desolate, Isa. 4.17, 26. O Christian brethren▪ I beseech you to return unto God with your whole hearts before utter destruction comes upon you. Ah how doth the Lord give us now warning by his afflictions laid upon us, to turn and speedily repent of our sins and he will have mercy; for we may trust and rest upon our sweet Saviour for mercy if we truly repent; for he is still as gracious a God as he was to our Forefathers. O remember the loving kindness of God unto Nineveh, who said, within forty days shall Nineveh be destroyed; but by the prayers and repentance of the Ninevites it still was preserved; yea, their obedience and ardent desires of the whole land, yea the incense of their prayer ascended up before God and he repented of the evil and did it not. Ah, there is nothing better and more accceptable to the Lord then prayers and supplications are; yea, I say it is good both to prevent the wrath of God, and to bring his blessings upon the land: Ah, but this pride, this hardness of heart, this cruelty of these rich men is such to the poor of this Kingdom, which makes the Lords fierce anger thus wrathfully afflict us: Ah how doth the Lord try the hearts of these Cormudgels, who would, if God would give them leave, even grinned the faces of the poor to pieces: Ah, but woe, woe to you rich men for the misery that shall come upon you; Ah your riches are corrupted, your garments shall be moth eaten, and the rust of your gold and silver shall one day witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire, you have heaped up treasures to the last day, you have kept back by fraud and deceit the wages of your hired labourers, and the cries of the poor have entered into the ears of the Lord, you have lived in pleasures upon earth, and have been wanton and turned yourselves from the poor; yea, you have condemned the just,& have slain the poor from off the land, James 5.3. Rich men are you not ashamed of these reproofs, you covetous worldlings return I say and be converted: Ah, you are not ashamed to hoard up your grain, and not let the poor to be relieved; nay, you will see them die and starve at your doors before you will part from a morsel of bread; but take heed you worldlings, that God doth not one day let you stand knocking at the door of grace, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, who shall answer you, depart you cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his Angels. O Brethren, remember this in time, and lay aside these sins that so easily besets thee; for certainly these sins are the cause of our present calamities; for see you not how the fields are wasted? the land mourneth for our Corn, it wasts and languishes away: be you ashamed you husbandmen for your grievous using of the poor; are not your hearts ready to melt within you for your sore transgression ● great cause have we to howl and lament, for the wheat and the barley of the fields are like to perish, for the vine is dried up the figtrée languisheth, and the aprletrée: yea, all the trees of the earth because joy is departed from the sons of men: lament and howl you Ministers of the Gospel, and h●sten to offer up sacrifices acceptable to the Lord. Ah, lets lye in sackcloth lets sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, and let all the inhabitants of the earth cry unto the Lord with tears that cannot be numbered, alas, for this day of the Lord is at hand, and a most swift and sudden destruction will come from the Almighty, our meat is cut off, yea joy and gladness is departed from us, and our seed is rotten under the clots our garners is laid desolate and our barns are empty, and our grain is withered. And ah how do the beasts groan, our hearts are perplexed and our pastors are dried up, and our flocks of sheep are consumed. O let us look unto him that hath wrought great works, to whom else ought we to cry for help and succour: O Lord therefore hear our prayers and deal by us as it seems good to thy blessed will; for O Lord amongst us there is nothing wrought that is good in us, but swearing and lying,& whering, and stealing, and blood touching blood. O Lord, of these abominations, give us grace to repent. Christian friends, I beseech you to repent as did Niniveh, that the Lord may repent him of his judgements and take away his fierce anger from amongst us; for as Jonah entred into Nineveh, said within 40 days shall Nineveh be destroyed: but the City of Nineveh believed the Lord God by the mouth of his Prophet, and they proclaimed a Fast from the greatest to the least of them; nay, the very King put from him his Royal robes, and covered himself with sackcloth and ashes: this I say, shewed their humility, and how they humbled themselves to the service of God, and God did repent of the evil and destroyed them not, Jonah ●. 5. O England, England, if thou dost not with as free a heart truly repent thee as did this City thou canst not possibly stop the wrath of God: but alas, our carnal minds are drawn away with the bewitching vanities sinful lusts, deluding temptations of this sinful life. O friends, your fasting is feasting, your praying is playing, being filled with fullness of bread, wanting nothing like to Sodom and Gomorah, but if like to them you must partake of their punishments. O you attenders and hearers of this book, be you not so called but be you the doers of the same, and practise it in your lives and conversations. O harken further what God saith to those that repent. Zech. 10.1. My mercy shall be above your affliction; for if you seek the Lord, you shall have rain with the latter rain, and in season shall the weather be, and every one shall have grass in the fields, and I will have mercy upon you, and you shall be as though I afflicted you not. O Christian Brethren, do, not you see that repentance& prayer is the greatest thing that God regardeth: I would entreat you all with loving advisement to seek God by prayer; for Sodom had not the sins as we have: Sodom had not been destroyed had there been but ten righteous, and in another place saith God▪ find but one acceptable to stand in the gap to stay my wrath,& pacify my fierce anger from coming more amongst you. Dear Friends, though some goes astray, lets not all perish in our wickedness: perhaps some of you here present God may accept to pacify hi●… wrath▪ therefore I pray you seek to please Go●… as you live and reign with him for evermore for you all have seen and known that your divers sins have brought divers calamities upo●… us, our haughtiness our wantonness, our drunkenness, & unjust dealings hath cruelly brought this plague upon us; this foggy winter past makes the summer unseasonable to the abounding of great diseases, except the Lord of his gracious clemency, and good providence, doth pervert it, great scarcity of grain is likely to be through the murmuring of our greedy rich misers of the land, who heaps from the poor in a most wretched manner: O but we have a just God that will punish these greedy Caterpillars with the wants of their great store which they had upon earth, their conscience in hell will be gripped with scorching fire, they shall burn as straw under a furnace, and their hearts will burn with fervent heat; and as they kept food from the poor upon earth so will the Lord keep them from the spiritual food of Heaven; and as the poor lay under their Curse, so shall the rich man lye under the Curse of Gods wrath for evermore, and his delicate fare will be turned into odious toads, and gripping hunger instead of Claret wine, boiling led and extreme thirst, their music and noble companions will be the hideous crying of frightful divels, his rare attire& sumptuous seat is the flames of flashing fire,& his bed of down is burning coals of hellish fuel and though the miserable pains of poor Lazarus on earth had an end, yet the damnable torments of the rich glutton in hell hath no end: take heed of this you rich men which despise the poor, remember this, 'tis the punishment that is reserved for all such at the last day: All men fear God& truly consider these words,& take warning lest the heavy wrath of God do utterly consume you from the land,& I entreat you to truly trust in God,& he will relieve all your necessities whatsoever& confounded those that seek to do him wrong, for the Lord's merciful, slow to anger& of great kindness: but to the rich man a word more I have to say, are you not ashamed to see the poor starve both for hunger and could▪ neither will you give them bread nor cloth to cloath'em they may lye 7 years in prison with iron fetters ere youl part from a penny to relieve them: O you hard hearted Iewes, no Christianity is remaining in you: nay, your poor labourers that labours amongst you of his wages you will keep back& hath at home a wife and 8 children perhaps that starves for bread, yet by defraud you thus deceive them: alas at their best estate they are not able to maintain their charge with the wages pou allow them, but you forget the poverty of the poor being pampered up with plenty of delicate fare; but alas, for your hypocrisy there is a day of account that God will deal by you as you have dealt by others; yea, if one drop of water would serve your turn, if should not be granted you; ah, in with a straight will you be brought to at this hour, if you were to begin your life anew, how would you carry your se●ves: O how chatitable then would you be to merit heaven: but take warning whilst you are here upon earth, for after death there is no remorse: and I beg of you for Christs sake to say to heart what has been said,& strive to serve the living God,& instead of poverty you shal have plenty, nay you shal have your daies lengthened▪ as was Hezekiahs, Isa 38.7. By his prayers and true desire there was added to his days 15 years; But if you refuse to labour you mus● eat the bread of hunger, to labour is beautiful both to natural and spiritual life, but for a long time we have perverted the ways of God, and the ways of truth, but what has be fallen us for our iniquity, The earth is empty,& made waste, yea it is turned upside down, and the Inhabitants, the children of God are scattered abroad in all parts; but alas as it is with the people so with the Priest, as with the servant so with the master, as with the buyer so with the cellar, for the Land shall be destroyed and quiter confounded. Isaiah 24.3. For the earth mourneth, the world languisheth and fadeth away, yea the mighty are weak, and the whole earth is defiled by blasphemous cursed words and evil thoughts, confused actions. O we have sorely transgressed the laws of God, we have changed his ordinances, nay we have broken his everlasting covenant, therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate, Isa. 24.5, 6. for lo I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkned to my words.  
O let us speedily repent with unfeigned hearts that the Lord may turn his wrath into mercy, his fury into favour, his anger into loving kindness; and make our barren land fruitful, turn our dearness into cheapness, our sickness into health, our adversity to prosperity, for he will be to us a God if we will be to him a people. O how great and manifold have the sins of this nation been, and how greatly hath God manifested his love unto us, and how little have we truly served him; we may well say with the Prophet, our best righteousness is filthy rags, yea filthy indeed have we been in our lives and conversations, strive to amend dear friends before the heavy wrath of God sweep you away, yea seek the Lord by prayer, for thus saith God, Seek& ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened; if we truly seek God he will be found of us, if we earnestly Knock for mercy, he will have mercy on us. And so I do humbly request every man in his own house and family to look to his own sheep, and walk circumspectly before man, humbly before God, and have a care of your last end, of your departing out of this life, committing your soul to God that gave it, and your body to the grave there to rest till the general day of judgement, with certain hope of a blessed resurrection; and the grace of the most wise God the Father, and of our Saviour Iesus Christ, with the blessed Spirit the holy Ghost, go along with you, and guide you all for ever more. Amen.  
The God of Heaven your minds convert,  
and bless you evermore,  
And make you of a tender heart,  
and freer to the poor:  
For meriting of earthly gifts  
you'l get a place more high,  
To reign in Heaven amongst the chief  
of heavenly Majesty.  
FINIS.