The world's Thy book: there I can read
Thy power, wisdom, and Thy love;
And thence ascend by faith, and feed
Upon the better things above.
I'll read Thy works of Providence:
Thy spirit, conscience, and Thy rod
Can teach without book all the sense
To know the world, myself, and God.
Few books may serve when Thou wilt teach.
Many have stolen my precious time:
I'll leave my books to hear Thee preach;
Church-work is best when Thou dost chime.
As for my house, it was my tent
While there I waited on Thy flock:
That work is done; that time is spent:
There neither was my home nor stock.
Would I in all my journey have
Still the same inn and furniture?
Or ease and pleasant dwellings crave,
Forgetting what thy saints endure?
My Lord had taught me how to want
A place wherein to put my head:
While He is mine, I'll be content
To beg or lack my daily bread.
Heaven is my roof, earth is my floor;
Thy love can keep me dry and warm: Christ and thy bounty are my store; Thy angels guard me from all harm.
As for my friends, they are not lost:
The several vessels of Thy fleet,
Though parted now, by tempests tost,
Shall safely in the haven meet.
Still we are centred all in Thee;
Members, though distant, of one head;
In the same family we be,
By the same faith and Spirit led.
In this there's most of fear and joy,
Because there's most of sin and grace;
Sin will this mortal frame destroy,
But Christ will bring me to Thy face.
Shall I draw back, and fear the end
Of all my sorrows, tears, and pain,
To which my life and labours tend,
Without which all had been in vain?
Can I for ever be content
Without true happiness and rest?
Is earth become so excellent,
That I should take it for my best?
Or can I think of finding here
That which my soul so long had sought?
Should I refuse those joys, through fear,
Which bounteous love so dearly bought?
All that doth taste of heaven is good;
When heavenly light doth me inform,
When heavenly life stirs in my blood,
When heavenly love my heart doth warm.
Though all the reasons I can see,
Why should I willingly submit,
And comfortably come to Thee;
My God, Thou must accomplish it.
The love which fill'd up all my days,
Will not forsake me to the end;
This broken body Thou wilt raise,
My spirit I to Thee commend.
ELFRIC of York, 18-25.
Alban the Martyr, 5.
Aldhelm's Device to gather a Con-
gregation, 11.
Almsgiving, 305.
Andrewes, Bishop, 157-165.
Angels, Man the care of, 142.
Anglo-Norman Church, 30, 35.
Anglo-Saxon Characteristics, 5-10;
Poetry, 11-14; Preaching, 18;
Pilgrimages to the Holy Land, 25.
Anselm of Canterbury, 31-35.
Arrowsmith, Dr John, 344-350.
Askew, Ann, her Ballad, 45.
Aspiration, 383.
Augustine of Canterbury, 8.
BARLOW'S "Hampton Court Confe-
rence," quoted, 147.
Baxter's, the Rev. J. A., "Church
History," 10, 80, 153.
Baxter, Richard, Birth, 361; Reads
"Bunney's Resolution;" Begins
to preach at Dudley; Success
at Kidderminster; Popularity;
Thrown into prison; Trial before
Jeffreys; Death; Remarks on,
by Sir J. Stephen, 361-381; Spe-
cimens of his writings, 382-420.
Beadmen, the Seven good, 143.
Bede, the Venerable, 14-18.
Bible, the Authorised Version, 155;
The Religion of Protestants, 189.
Believer's Covenant and Confidence,
Bolton, Robert, 170.
Bonner, Bishop, 124.
Brydges' "Censura Literaria," 137.
Busybody, the, 266.
CADMON, Cowherd and Poet, 11.
Calderwood's "History," 145.
Campbell's "English Poets," 219.
Cana, 254.
Cartwright, Thomas, 100.
Charles I., 154.
Chaucer, 30.
Chillingworth, 188.
Christ in the Wilderness, 211.
Christmas Carol, 47; at Lutter-
worth, 38.
Churton's "History," 15.
Citizen, the good, 297.
Cloak, the, and the Veil, 88.
Coifi, 17.
Coleridge, 166, 245.
Colet, Dean, 40, 58.
Confessors and Martyrs, 45.
Content and Rich, 139.
Cradock, Walter, 355.
Cranmer, 104.
Cripplegate Church, 112.
Crow, the, plucking wool off a sheep's
back, 285.
DAVIES, Sir John, 214.
Davison, Francis, 131.
Dial, on the Sight of a, 279.
Diligence, 351.
Donne, Dr, 165.
Dort, Synod of, 151, 234.
Du Bartas, 205.
EARNEST, Be, 401.
Easter-Sunday Sermon, 21.
Elizabeth, Queen, 73, 131.
Emblems, 32, 140.
Expostulation, 392.
FAITH has respect to all the Com-
mandments, 182.
Falkland, Lady, 303.
"Father, Our," 50.
Fire, on the blowing of the, 284.
Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, 42.
Fletcher, Giles, 210.
Fly in the Candle, 287.
Foxe, the Martyrologist, 111.
Foxes, Little, 89.
Friend, the, in need, 52.
Fulfiller of the Law, the, 50.
GILPIN, Bernard, 90.
Glad Tidings from Heaven to
the Worst of Sinners on Earth,
355.
Gouge, Dr Wm., 330.
Grey, Lady Jane, 47.
Grindal, Bishop, 83.
HALES of Eton, "the ever memor-
able," 192.
Hall, Joseph, D.D., Born in Lei-
cestershire; College Career; Pub-
lishes Satires; Settled in Hal-
stead; Travels; Chaplain to
Prince Henry; Translated to
Waltham Abbey; Sent to the
Synod of Dort: Bishop of Exeter,
and then of Norwich; Imprison-
ment and Sufferings; Specimens
of his Writings, 217-288.
Hallam's "Middle Ages," 6; "Li-
rature of Europe," 106, 246.
Hampton Court Conference, 147.
Hard-heartedness bewailed, 415.
"Hocus-pocus," 9.
Holland's "Psalmists of Britain,”
128.
Honey? Hast thou found, 167.
Hooker, Richard, 103.
Horse, the taming of the, 206.
"Housel," 21.
Hunnis, William, 133.
Husband's (the dying) Farewell,
212.
Hutchinson, Colonel, 290.
Hymns, Anglo-Saxon, 13.
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