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quod; ^i^-b)^ (as R. David glosseth it) qua men- 

 sura, aut modo; and so the Syriac, Qualia Judicia, 

 talcm Justitiam didicerunt ; so much judgment, so 

 much justice; righteousness they did learn, just 

 while God's rod was over them, and no longer. 

 Thus, while God's plagues lay heavy upon Pharaoh, 

 even that stiff neck bowed, and that hard heart 

 was softened ; as iron in a quick fire relents and 

 melts, but take it out of the furnace and it grows 

 hard again, nay, worse, churlish, and unmalleable : 

 and so he, when he saw that there was respite, saith 

 the text, or a breathing time, he hardened his 

 heart. Exod. viii. 15. And do not we all the 

 same ? Like teeming women, while the pangs are 

 upon us, *we have sorrow; when some great 

 affliction give us a smart visit, strikes home and 

 deep, we seem to be a little sensible : aye, but the 

 throes once over, (hk hi [/.vtiixovbvsi, saith our Lord) 

 the woman remembers them no more; and so we. 

 If but for a little space grace be showed us, if 

 God gives us but a little respite in our bondage, 

 like Israel newly returned from Babel, we straight 

 forget his commandments; which made the good 

 Ezra ashamed, and blushed to lift up his face to 

 Heaven: Ezra, chap. ix. ver. 8. 10. 



Happy we, if, as Pliny | adviseth his friend 

 Maximus, Tales esse sani 'per sever emus, quales fu- 

 tures 'projitemur uifirmi ; if we continue such in 

 health as we promise to be upon our sick beds. 

 But, alas! '^.Convaluit ; mansit, ut ante. How few 



* John, xvi. 21. t Lib. 7. Ep. 27. % Psm. Ixvi. 14. 



