/If tle Ricrar,,atsdLßzarus. g7 fuch fooles and madmen, t ocroire theirowne faluation. So much for the placewhither the fouleofthis Rich man went: Now we cerne to flew what followed there. Hebit v,a hr eyes , abdfinve Abrahama farre We haue heard whither the foule of this rich man went, to wit tohell ; here is further lhewed, what follow, ed there. And (6rí1) what this rich man fawe,and (fecond: Iy) what he laid. He Pave Laz.arus,and fpalte to Alrabaz°. He fawe Lataru; ; towit, with the eyesofhs minde, the eyes of hisbody being fail clofed vp in the graue : and he fpak e to elbraharrl,but withan intellecIuall tongue.Whi; (heweth,that all that followeth,isa parable-part ofScrip. ture. For foules in proper fpeech,haue neither eyes to fee, nor tongues to fpeake with, It is fail, hee lift vp hiseyes; the more to increare his de- fireofthat he couldnot haue , and lorrow for being denio ed it. And that his eyes being liftvp, he fawe Abraham a forre off: or,fa!arat:on farrefrnm thewicked: Pfal. I 19.15 and (which more augmented his pine) Lazarus in his bobine. As forre as heauen andhell are afunder, fo forre offfz\v he Abraham; and with the. Mole-warp, heonely opened his eyes at hisdeath, and faw him, and Lazarus with hire in bliffe. But as in is life time , he turned his eyes from ZazarNs, fo now at his death , God turnedhis face from him: and fo he fawe,whar hewas not better, but worfe for feeing. And how could it beotherwaies, hawing fuch a feeling of the torments he was in, and liue-ly fenfe of the f::uou' s he lull ; by feeing Lazarus fo happy, and himfelfe f' miferebleFor might he not now fay, What loathpride profited ire ? or what profit bath the pompe of richesbro 'ght roe ? Wifd.5.8. Thus he fawe too late; and with late repentance at his death,
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