2,92 General! direttionsfor a - - ns=LaW5=4,4..._, tsrazeTd fpeake in refped_ of his Humanity,that ever iffued out of the hands of God, were there any inch great matter,or ex cellen- cy inriches, had never laidof himfelfc: The Foxes haveholes, Math. S. so. and the Birds of the "lyre have nells o but the Sonneof Lgian bath not where to lay his head. Could a Bearing-mantle of cloth of gold, an =pearled Cradle, delicious fare every day, thoufands a yeere, make a man truly happy ; the right and Lpke Royal! Heire of all things, would never have chofen a Stable for his Birth-chamber , a Manger for his Cradle , Barley- bread for the entertainement of his Followers, a leffe fixed habitation for himfelfe, then the pooreft Bird, &c. 9. TheSunne and Moone are farce more glittering and glorious, then theburnifht gold of Ophyr : and the pooreft man bath as large a profpe6t and part in them, as the vafleft Inclofer, or moil griping Vfurer : but much more benefit by them, then the rich worldlings by their golden heapes. For he is c3mfortably warmed, and refrefhed with the influ- ence of their heateand light : but they, if the Divell did not hoodwinke them, might fee every time they looke thereon, that ruff cleaving to their unrighteous Mammon, which TAmlt, hereafterAdll eat their tiefhat it werefire. to. One Starre doth incomparably exceed in beauty and worthagolden earth : and if thoube truly Gods, and have Rad. 53. I thyFoote alreadyupon the Moone, as thou oughleft, thou (halt hereafter tread everlaftingly upon thoufands of them. Difdaine then in the name time, to let thy heavenly fpirit doteupon thole baler hoards of fhining earth, which are making themfelves wings to (lyeaway, as. an Eagle toward Heaven ; for riches are like tranfitory ftreames, whichpoft. ingby the fide of a City, no man can flay. Were it not a fenceleffe and brainelefl'e endeavour and expectation for a Towne tohope and affay to keepe with them the batty cur- rent of amighty River, which none of anhundredTownes before couldhold ? And doeft thou expea any conftancy of picas, tibi maniatas abodewith theeof thatthicke clay, which bath palled tho- divitias Br quaint thomiam otwt man ficns row fo many hands before ? Neither is it fo much thine, as runt. theworlds A dog followestwomen it is not knowne to whom
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