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bovem : — Jerusalem and Rome, party per pale ; 

 with Geneva and Cracovia, if you will have it 

 quarterly; aye, and Mecca too, I fear, in chief, to 

 embellish the scutcheon. 



But, is there no Theseus, no generous Hero, to 

 attack this monster ? No courteous and charitable 

 Ariadne that will lend a clue, and help us to disen- 

 tangle the ruffled scain, and to evade these perplex- 

 ed wanderings ? Hath our Crete no Dictamnus in 

 it to expel the arrow which so long hath galled our 

 sides ? No counter-poison for so many mischiefs? 

 Or rather, in the prophetical scheme, * Is there no 

 balm in Gilead ? Is there no physician there ? Yes, 

 there is ; and, therefore, let us hope well of the 

 healing of the wounds of the daughter of our 

 people, since they are under the cure of those 

 very hands, upon which God hath entailed a mira- 

 culous gift of healing, as if it were on purpose to 

 raise up our hopes into some confidence that we 

 shall owe one dav to those sacred hands, next 

 under God, the healing of the Church's and the 

 people's evils, as well as of the king's. Blessed 

 for ever be that God who hath restored us such a 

 gracious sovereign, to be the t repairer of the 

 breach, and the nursing father of his church : and 

 hath put it into the king s heart to appoint Titus, 

 as this day, to ordain Elders for every city, to 

 supply all that is wanting, and to correct what- 

 ever is amiss. Blessed are our eyes, for they see 



* Jer. viii. 22. t Isa. Iviii. 12. 



