152. LABOUR. Labour we must, and labour hard I' th' forum here, or vineyard. 153. MORA SPONSI, THE STAY OF THE BRIDEGROOM. The time the bridegroom stays from hence Is but the time of penitence. 154. ROARING. Roaring is nothing but a weeping part Forced from the mighty dolour of the heart. 155. THE EUCHARIST. _He that is hurt seeks help_: sin is the wound; The salve for this i' th' Eucharist is found. 156. SIN SEVERELY PUNISHED. God in His own day will be then severe To punish great sins, who small faults whipt here. 157. MONTES SCRIPTURARUM: THE MOUNTS OF THE SCRIPTURES. The mountains of the Scriptures are, some say, Moses, and Jesus, called Joshua: The prophets, mountains of the Old are meant, Th' apostles, mounts of the New Testament. 158. PRAYER. A prayer that is said alone Starves, having no companion. Great things ask for when thou dost pray, And those great are which ne'er decay. Pray not for silver, rust eats this; Ask not for gold, which metal is; Nor yet for houses, which are here But earth: _such vows ne'er reach God's ear_. 159. CHRIST'S SADNESS. Christ was not sad, i' th' garden, for His own Passion, but for His sheep's dispersion. 160. GOD HEARS US. God, who's in heaven, will hear from thence; If not to th' sound, yet to the sense. 161. GOD. God, as the learned Damascene doth write, A sea of substance is, indefinite. _The learned Damascene_, _i.e._, St. John of Damascus. 162. CLOUDS. He that ascended in a cloud, shall come In clouds descending to the public doom. 163. COMFORTS IN CONTENTIONS. The same who crowns the conqueror, will be A coadjutor in the agony. 164. HEAVEN. Heaven is most fair; but fairer He That made that fairest canopy. 165. GOD. In God there's nothing, but 'tis known to be Even God Himself, in perfect entity. 166. HIS POWER. God can do all things, save but what are known For to imply a contradiction. 167. CHRIST'S WORDS ON THE CROSS: MY GOD, MY GOD. Christ, when He hung the dreadful cross upon, Had, as it were, a dereliction In this regard, in those great terrors He Had no one beam from God's sweet majesty. _Dereliction_, abandonment. 168. JEHOVAH. Jehovah, as Boëtius saith, No number of the plural hath. 169. CONFUSION OF FACE. God then confounds man's face when He not bears The vows of those who are petitioners. 170. ANOTHER. The shame of man's face is no more Than prayers repell'd, says Cassiodore. 171. BEGGARS. Jacob God's beggar was; and so we wait, Though ne'er so rich, all beggars at His gate. 172. GOOD AND BAD. The bad among the good are here mix'd ever; The good without the bad are here plac'd never. 173. SIN. _Sin no existence; nature none it hath, Or good at all_, as learned Aquinas saith. 174. MARTHA, MARTHA.