she walks among the stars, sets and keeps them in their places, courses, and operations, at her pleasure.  She eclipseth the light, and in a moment leaves not a cloud in the sky.  In her thunders and lightnings she shows the terror of the Highest wrath, and in her temperate calms, the patience of His mercy.  In her frosty winters she shows the weakness of nature, and in her sunny springs the recovery of her health.  In the lovers of this world lives no part of her pureness, but with her beloved she makes a heaven upon earth.  In the king she shows grace, in his council her care, and in his state her strength.  In the soldier she shows virtue the truest valour; in the lawyer, truth the honour of his plea; in the merchant, conscience the wealth of his soul; and in the churchman, charity the true fruit of his devotion.  She lives in the world but not the world’s love, for the world’s unworthiness is not capable of her worth.  She receiveth Mammon as a gift from his Maker, and makes him serve her use to His glory.  She gives honour, grace in bounty, and manageth wit by the care of discretion.  She shows the necessity of difference, and wherein is the happiness of unity.  She puts her labour to providence, her hope to patience, her life to her love, and her love to her Lord; with whom, as chief secretary of His secrets, she writes His will to the world, and as high steward of His courts she keeps account of all His tenants.  In sum, so great is her grace in the heavens as gives her glory above the earth, and so infinite are her excellencies in all the course of her action; and so glorious are the notes of her incomprehensible nature, that I will thus only conclude, far short of her commendation:—­She is God’s love, and His angels’ light, His servants’ grace, and His beloved’s glory.

LEARNING.

Learning is the life of reason and the light of nature, where time, order, and measure square out the true course of knowledge; where discretion in the temper of passion brings experience to the best fruit of affection; while both the Theory and Practice labour in the life of judgment, till the perfection of art show the honour of understanding.  She is the key of knowledge that unlocketh the cabinet of conceit, wherein are laid up the labours of virtue for the use of the scholars of wisdom; where every gracious spirit may find matter enough worthy of the record of the best memory.  She is the nurse of nature, with that milk of reason that would make a child of grace never lie from the dug.  She is the schoolmistress of wit and the gentle governor of will, when the delight of understanding gives the comfort of study.  She is unpleasing to none that knows her, and unprofitable to none that loves her.  She fears not to wet her feet, to wade through the waters of comfort, but comes not near the seas of iniquity, where folly drowns affection in the delight of vanity.  She opens her treasures to the travellers in virtue, but keeps