comfortable walkingwith God. 361 in guilded fetters, and blafts his fpirit with farre morecare and fears then whenhee was moll meane : Even-as higheft boughes are moft fhaken by the windes , and the points of fteeples beaten moll with ftormes and lightning. All world- ly fplendorand pompe , is but a a fmoake, which vanifhetb aNon debet pr as itrifeth, and drawes teams ftom the eyes, Even a Regal! agitr habcri ho_ Diademe, in the fence and fenfure of`an HeathenifhKing, is noulrhuustnaeuriti! attendedwith filch aweighty irkefome,and painefull charge; that, faithhe, He whofireknew theweight of Scepter, Amid car: 5° Iy, heeflabit lyingvpon thegronnd, hee woadnot deigne to take it sp. And what is himfelfe; the owner and Lordofall thefe ? A littlewalking earth, a coloured puce of clay , a warme peece ofdirt, a very bag ofcholer, fleame, and other filth ; to day aman, tomorrow none : his breath is in his noftrils; flop but his nofe, and he is dead. And what is hisabode amongft there painted vanities and things ofnought ? For fuddaine paffage and change ' it is like a Shepheards tent, a Weavers fhuttle, or a water bubble ; like a hyingPoaft , or a flying cloud ; like a {hipunder fail; or an Eagle on hiswings; like a fading flower , or a falling leafe ; like foame that is fcatte- red, or daft that is driven with the winde ; like a vapour, a thought a fmoake , a winde that paffeth and commeth not againe ; like a flying fhadow, yea, the very dreame .ofa A4. man orest Pint doll', as one fayes ' and that a morningdreame, which is even as footle ended asbegun. But let us looke intohis infide, and theDate of his bottle, and fee ifwee can there finde any more peace, comfort, or con ftancy. No, there you {hall behold a lively resemblance of the very reftleiTe tumultuations of the raging lea ; the never-dying Wormebreeding and growing big in the frothofhis filthy lulls, and rottenneffe ofhis rebel- liousheart Ina word, his poore balebleeding to eternal! death.Let us comeunto his death;from the inevitable ftroake whereof, all theGold, and PearleofTaft and Weft can no more redeemehim, then can an handful! ofdaft ; and there he shall findedefpaireand horrOur,like two eveningWolves, enraged-Withhellifhhunger 3 -ready,to teare his foule in pie- ces, when thereis none tohelpe.And what followes?Hemalt A a 4 lay
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