God, to be ••eared in his Judgments. [ 1146]
IT is said of Queen Elizabeth,* 1.1 she was so reserved, that all about her stood in a reverent awe of her very presence and aspect; but how much more of her least frown and check, wherewith some of them, who thought they might best presume of her favour, have been so suddainly daunted and planet-strucken, that they could not lay down the grief thereof, but in their graves: One of these was, Sr. Christo∣pher Hatton, Lord Cnancellor, who died of a flux of urin, with grief of mind; neither could the Queen, having once cast him down with a word, raise him up again,* 1.2 though she visited and comforted him in the time of his sicknesse. O! but when the Lion roars,* 1.3 shall not the beasts of the forrest tremble? Shall the judgments of God be abroad in the world, and the people not learn righteousnesse? Shall the frowns of any mortall Wight be matter of discontent, and shall the angry counte∣nance of the immortall God, be passed by unregarded? It must not be. He that was,* 1.4 and is Wonderfull, the Counsellor, made it out for comfortable advice, Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him, which is able to destroy both body and soul in hell, Matth. 10. 28.