Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed. 17-i. 1. This fester'd joint cut off, the rest rest sound; Conquer fortune's spite, By living low, where fortune cannot hurt you. It is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest. 6-i. 3. An had you an eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels, than fortunes before you. 699 The danger of extremes. 4-ii. 5. I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning; 2-i. 3. Bid a sick man in sadness make his will; 35-i. 1. Conceit and grief and eager combat fight; I told ye all, Poems. When we first put this dangerous stone a rolling, 'Twould fall upon ourselves.* 25-v. 2. Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves. 22-v. 1. The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts, 24-ii. 2. How shalt thou hope for mercy, rend'ring none? Farewell: The leisure and the fearful time And ample interchange of sweet discourse, 9-iv. 1. Which so-long-sunder'd friends should dwell upon. 707 24-v. 3. Benediction. What heaven more will That thee may furnish,† and my prayers pluck down, 11-i. 1. 28-i. 5. ↑ Furnish,' that may help thee with more and better qualifica tions. The best wishes, that can be forged in your thoughts, be servants to you! 11-i. 1. The benediction of these covering heavens 31-v. 5. 713 Devotion. God knows, of pure devotion.* 714 Consolation to believers. Now, God be praised! that to believing souls 22—ii. 1. 22-ii. 1. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come the readiness is all. 36-v. 2. [us, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall;† and that should teach * John iv. 24. Phil. iii. 3. † Fail. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. 36-v. 2. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell; Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace Yet grace must still look so. 15-iv. 3. The immortal part needs a physician; though that be sick, it dies not. "Tis a vile thing to die, 19-ii. 2. When men are unprepared, and look not for it. 721 The same. Men must endure 24-iii. 2. Their going hence, even as their coming hither: 34-v. 2. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible! Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul, To counsel me to make my peace with God, 22-iii. 3. 724 24-i. 4. The brevity of life. The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. * Ps. lv. 21. Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force,- 726 God the cause of all causes. He that of greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, 36-iii. 3. When judges have been babes.* Great floods have flown From simple sources;† and great seas have dried, It is not so with Him that all things knows, The help of Heaven we count the act of men. 727 Fall of man and redemption. 11-ii. 1. All the souls that were, were forfeit once;} The quality of mercy is not strain'd: It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven *An allusion to Daniel judging the two elders. xi. 25, and 1 Cor. i. 27. 5-ii. 2. See also Matt. ti. e. When Moses smote the rock in Horeb.-Exod. xvii. 5, 6, &c. Referring to the children of Israel passing the Red Sea, when miracles had been denied by Pharaoh. § Rom. iii. 10-23. TPs. cxxx. 3. John iii. 16. ** Eph. iv. 24-32. |