he light would never be so
acceptable, were it not for that usual intercourse of darkness. Too
much honey doth turn into gall, and too much joy, even spiritual,
would make us wantons. Happier a great deal is that man's case,
whose soul by inward desolation is humbled, than he whose heart is,
through abundance of spiritual delight, lifted up and exalted above
measure. Better it is sometimes to go down into the pit, with him,
who, beholding darkness, and bewailing the loss of inward joy and
consolation, crieth from the bottom of the lowest hell, My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me? than continually to walk arm in arm
with angels, to sit as it were in Abraham's bosom, and to have no
thought, no cogitation; but, 'I thank my God it is not with me as it
is with other men.' No; God will have them that shall walk in light
to feel now and then what it is to sit in the shadow of death. A
grieved spirit, therefore, is no argument of a faithless
mind."--_Hooker's Works_, vol. iii. pp. 527, 528. Oxford.
1807.--_Ed._]

163 [That is, collect or obtain.--_Ed._]

164 [That is, between extremes.--_Ed._]

165 [Perhaps the word should be plungy, that is _rainy_. _Chauc._--_Ed._]

166 [That is, cover with mist.--_Ed._]

167 [That is, deserving of consideration.--_Ed._]

168 [In the year 1661 Winston and some others sent a letter to Cromwell,
through General Lambert, in which they charge the English army in
Scotland "with divers errors countenancing of deposed ministers to
preach _silencing of ministers that preach of state proceedings_,
and suffering officers to preach," &c.--_Whithel's Memorials_ p.
497.--_Ed._]

169 [Cromwell, in his despatches, after the battle of Dunbar, states the
number of his prisoners, exclusive of officers, to be near
10,000.--_Cromwelliana_, p. 90. "The same daye the minister declaired
yt yr wes a petitioune come from the prisoners at Tinmouth quho wer
taiken at Dunbar, and representit to the presbyterie for support,
because they wer in ane sterving conditione, and all comanders. And
yt ye presbyterie hes recomendit the samen to ye several kirks of ye
presbyterie, Therfoir ordaines that ane collectione be yranent upon
Sondaye come 8 deyes, and intimation to be maid of it the next
sabbathe to ye effect ye people