that mine eyes have seen in four yeers space! In this fight, a dear friend fall down by me; from another, a precious Christian brought home wounded or dead; scarce a moneth, scarce a week without the sight or noise of blood. Surely, there is none of this in Heaven. Our eyes shall then be filled no more, nor our hearts pierced with such lights as at Worcester, Edg-hil, Newbury, Nant∣wich, Montgomery, Horn Castle, York, Naseby, Langport, &c. We shall then have the conquest without the calamity. Mine eyes shall never more behold the Earth, covered with the carkasses of the slain. Our black Ribbands and mourning▪ Attire will then be turned into the white Robes and Garments of gladness. O, how hardly can my heart now hold, when I think of such, and such, and such a dear Christian Friend, slain or departed? O, how glad must the same heart needs be, when I see them all alive and glori∣fied? But a far greater grief it is to our Spirits, to see the spiritual miseries of our Brethren: To see such a one with whom we took sweet councel, and who zealously joyned with us in Gods wor∣ship, to be now fallen off to sensuality, turned drunkard, worldling, or a persecutor of the Saints. And these trying times have given us too large occasion for such sorrows: To see our dearest and most intimate friends, to be turned aside from the Truth of Christ, and that either in or neer the Foundation; and to be raging con∣fident in the grossest Errors? To see many neer us in the flesh con∣tinue their neglect of Christ and their souls, and nothing will waken them out of their security? To look an ungodly Father or Mother, Brother or Sister in the face? To look on a carnal Wife, or Husband, or Childe, or Friend? And to think, how certainly they shall be in Hell for ever, if they die in their present unrege∣nerate estate? O what continual dolors do all these sad sights and thoughts, fill our hearts with from day to day. And will it not be a blessed day when we shall rest from all these? what Christian now is not in Pauls case, and cannot speak in his Language, 2 Cor. 11.28, 29. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the Churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? What heart is not wounded to think on Germanies long desolations? O the learned Universities! The flourishing Churches there, that now are left desolate! Look on Englands four yeers blood, a flourishing Land almost made ruined; hear but the common voyce in most Cities,