RALEIGH (SIR WALTER).

BORN 1552-DIED 1618.

1. The law sheweth the way of righteousness by works, the gospel by faith; the law woundeth, the gospel healeth; the law terrifieth, the gospel allureth; Moses accuseth, Christ defendeth; Moses condemneth, Christ pardoneth ; the one restraineth the hand, the other the mind. Christ came to save the world, which the law had condemned; and as Moses was but a servant, and Christ a son, so the greatest benefit was reserved to be bought by the worthiest person; for the law made nothing perfect, but was an introduction of a better hope.

2. He that hath pity on another man's sorrow, shall be free from it himself; and he that delighteth in, and scorneth the misery of another, shall one time or another fall into it himself.

3. Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words, is a niggard in deeds. Restrain thy anger; hearken much and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world.

4. Jest not at those that are simple, but remember how much thou art bound to God, who hath made thee wiser.

5. When once we come in sight of the port of death, to which all winds drive us, and when, by letting fall that fatal anchor, which can never be weighed again, the navi

gation of this life takes end; then it is that our own cogitations return again, and pay us to the uttermost for all the pleasing passages of our lives past.

6. God is He, from whom to depart is to die; to whom to repair is to revive; and in whom to dwell is life for ever. Be not, then, of the number of those that begin not to live till they be ready to die.

7. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with those two narrow words, Hic jacet.

8. There is not the smallest accident, which may seem unto man as falling out by chance, and of no consequence, but that the same is caused by God, to effect something else by; yea, and oftentimes to effect things of the greatest worldly importance, either presently, or in many years after, when the occasions are either not considered or forgotten.

9. The father provideth for his children; beasts, and birds, and all living things, for their young ones. If providence be found in second fathers, much more in the first and universal; and if there be a natural, loving care in men and beasts, much more in God, who hath formed this nature, and whose divine love was the beginning, and is the bond of the universal.

10. Although religion, and the truth thereof, be in every man's mouth, yea, in the discourse of every woman, what

is it other than a universal dissimulation? We profess that we know God, but by works we deny Him; for beatitude doth not consist in the knowledge of divine things, but in a divine life, for the devils know them better than man.

II. The service of God is the path leading us to perfect happiness, and hath in it a true, though not complete, felicity; yielding such abundance of joy to the conscience, as doth easily countervail all afflictions whatsoever; though, indeed, those brambles that sometimes tear the skin of such as walk in this blessed way, do commonly lay hold upon them, at such time as they sit down to take their ease, and make them wish themselves at their journey's end, in presence of their Lord, in whose presence is the fulness of joy.

HOOKER (RICHARD).

BORN 1554-DIED 1600.

1. Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken.

2. There will come a time when three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.

3. The manner of men's writings must not alienate our hearts from the truth, if it appear they have the truth. 4. Think ye are men deem it not impossible for you to err; sift impartially your own hearts, whether it be force of reason, or vehemency of affection, which hath bred, and still doth feed, these opinions in you. If truth do anywhere manifest itself, seek not to smother it with glozing delusion; acknowledge the greatness thereof, and think it your best victory when the same doth prevail over you.

5. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom, although to know be life, and joy to make mention of His name, yet our soundest knowledge is to know that we know Him not as indeed He is, neither can know Him; and our safest eloquence concerning Him is our silence, when we confess, without confession, that His glory is inexplicable, His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above,

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and we upon earth; therefore it behoveth our words to be wary and few.

6. All those venerable books of Scripture, those sacred volumes of Holy Writ, are with such absolute perfection framed, that in them there neither wanteth anything, the lack whereof might deprive us of life, nor anything in such wise aboundeth, that, as being superfluous, unfruitful, and altogether needless, we should think it no loss or danger at all, if we did want it.

7. The general end both of Old and New Testaments is one; the difference between them consisting in this, that the Old did make wise by teaching salvation through Christ that should come, the New by teaching that Christ the Saviour is come; and that Jesus, whom the Jews did crucify, and whom God did raise from the dead, is He.

8. There be two kinds of Christian righteousness, the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, hope, and charity, and other Christian virtues; and St James doth prove that Abraham had not only the one, because the thing believed was imputed unto him for righteousness, but also the other, because he offered up his son. God giveth us both the one justice and the other: the one, by accepting us for righteous in Christ; the other, by working Christian righteousness in us.

9. Longer than it holdeth the foundation whereof we have spoken, faith neither justifieth, nor is ; but ceaseth to be faith, when it ceaseth to believe that Jesus Christ is the only Saviour of the world.