Troubles not to be so much questioned how we came unto them, as how to get out of them. [ 324]
ST.* 1.1 Augustine tells of a man, that being fallen into a pit, one passing by, falls a questioning of him, what he made there, and how he came in. O, saies the poor man, Ask me not how I came in, but help me, and tell me how I may come out. So l••t not us enquire,* 1.2 how we came into such p••rplexed times, how into the pit of popular confu∣sion: One saies, that the late King; another, that the Parliament; a third, the Army is the cause of all our trouble, that they have put us in. But who is it that takes care how to get out? who is it that smites upon his thigh with his hand, and concludes, that his sin hath caused all this sorrow, that his iniquity hath raked up the ashes of these hot distempers? Could but men do this, then they might cheerfully look up unto him, who hath got the advantage of upper ground, who can, and is willing to draw them out of the deeps of their distresse, and deliver them.