de, and the wayes of his heart, to Christ;
who is our north poole, and that fixed and constant north starre,
whereby we ought all to bee governed: for hee is our hope and our
trust; hee is our strength, whereupon wee must still relie."

"Like as the Gnomon dooth euer beholde the north starre, whether it be
closed and shutte uppe in a coffer of golde, siluer, or woode, neuer
loosing his nature: So a faithfull Christian man, whether hee abound in
wealth, or bee pinched with pouertie, whether hee bee of high or lowe
degree in this worlde, ought continually to haue his faith and hope
surely built and grounded uppon Christ: and to haue his heart and minde
fast fixed and settled in him, and to follow him through thicke and
thinne, through fire and water, through warres and peace, through
hunger and colde, through friendes and foes, through a thousand
perilles and daungers, through the surges and waues of enuie, malice,
hatred, euill speeches, rayling sentences, contempt of the worlde,
flesh, and diuell: and, euen in death itselfe, bee it neuer so bitter,
cruell, and tyrannicall; yet neuer to loose the sight and viewe of
Christ, neuer to giue ouer our faith, hope, and trust in him."

SIGMA.

Stockton.

* * * * *

Robert Cawdray, the author of _A Treasurie or Store-house of Similes_, was
a Nonconformist divine of learning and piety. Having entered into the
sacred function about 1566, he was presented by Secretary Cecil to the
rectory of South Luffenham in Rutlandshire. After he had been employed in
the ministry about twenty years, he was cited before Bishop Aylmer and
other high commissioners, and charged with having omitted parts of the Book
of Common Prayer in public worship, {500} and with having preached against
certain things contained in the book. Having refused, according to Strype,
to take the oath to answer all such articles as the commissioners should
propose, he was deprived of his ministerial office. Mr. Brook, however, in
his _Lives of the Puritans_, states that though he might at first have
refused the oath, yet that he afterwards complied, and gave answers to the
various articles which he proceeds to detail at length. He was cited again
on two subsequent occasions; and, on his third appearance, being required
to subscribe, and to wear the surplice, he refused, and was imprisoned, and
ultimately deprived. He appl