Preached to the Countesse of Bedford, then at Harrington house. January 7, 1620

              preached to the countesse of bedford then at harrington house januar januaryY 7 1520 1620 JOB 1315 13.15 1315 LOE THOUGH HE SLAY ME YET WILL I1 TRUST IN HIM HE NAME by which god notified himselfe himselfe to all the world at THE TfirstwasquisumI1amthiswashisstyleinthecommis- sion that he gave to moses to pharaoh say that he whose name is I1 am hath sent thee for there god would have it made known that all essence all bebing beeing all things that fall out in any time past or present or future had their dependence upon him their derivation from him their subsistence in him but then when god contracts himselfe himselfe into a narrower consideration not to be con- sidered as god which implies the whole trinity but as christ which is onely the second person and when he does not so much notified notifie himselfe himselfe to the whole world as to the christian church then he contracts his name too from that spacious and extensive qui sum I1 am which includes all time to alpha and omega first and last which are peeces peaces of time as we see in severall places of the revela- tion he styles himselfe himselfe when god speakes to the whole world his name is qui sum I1 am that all the world may confesse confessed confesse that all that is is nothing but with relation to him when he speakes to a christian his name is alpha and omega first and last that a chris- tian may in the very name of god eixe his thoughts upon his be- ginning and upon his end and ever remember that as a few years since in his cradle he had no sense of that honour those riches those pleasures which possess his time now so god knowes knoles how few days hence in his grave he shall have no sense no memory of