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THE RIGHTEOVS MANS TOVVER.

OR, The way to be safe in a case of danger.

Published By Ier. Dike, Minister of Epping in Essex.

PSAL. 18. 2.

The Lord is my Rocke, and my high Tower.

August. in Psal. 60.

Ipse Christus est Turris, ipse nobis factus est Turris à facie Inimici: cave ne feriaris a diabolo, fuge ad Turrim. Ibi stabis munitus, & fixus. Quomodo autem fugies ad Turrim? Ante te est Turris, Recordare Christum, & Intra in Turrim.

Prosper.

Nec facile inveniuntur in adversitate praesidia, quae non fuerunt in pace quaesita.

LONDON, Printed by E. G. for I. Rothwell, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Sunne, in S. Pauls Church-yard. 1639.


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TO THE Right Honourable and vertuously ennobled Lady; the Lady KATHERIN WENTVVORTH, my singular good Lady.

RIGHT HONOVRABLE:
THe Divine providence hath in wonderfull wisedome put an uncertainty upon all earthly good, and hath so ordered it that there should be a vicissitude, an entercourse, and an enterchange as of seasons so of conditions. There [1] must bee whiles the earth remaines a variety and a succession of seasons. Seed time and harvest, cold and heate, summer and winter, day and night; And there ever hath beene, and will be whiles the World remaineth, the like variety and succession of conditions in this life. There is a seed-time, and an harvest. They that sow in teares shall reape in joy. [2] Hee that goeth forth and
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weepeth bearing precious seed, or the seed basket, shall doubtlesse come againe with rejoycing, bringing his sheaves with him. There is a winter and a [3] summer. Loe the winter is past, the raine is over, and gone. The flowers appeare on the earth, the time of the singing of the Birds is come. There is a day and a night. The morning was come, but the night also doth come: thou hadst a time of prosperity, but [4] now affliction is comming upon thee, saies the Prophet to Edom. Now as it is a matter of comfort that may support our spirits in a wette seed-time, in a cold winter, in a darke night, that a joyfull harvest, a warme...

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