~·.,. 4z Inftrulliomforaright comfortin_r SeCt. I, eternity ? . How fringing would the moll: exquifite de.. light be3 curiouOy extra'd:ed out of them all, accompanied with this one conceit ; the Soule is loft everlaftingly. All thefe painted vanities, might feeme perhaps a gaudy Paradife to a fpirituall Foole, who bath his porfion in this lif~; But what true pleafure can a man, in his right w'its, but morally and ilIightneu no f~;trther than w1th Philofophy, take in them, fith, fetting other refpetl:s afide, they are fo fading, and Hee fo frayle. For the firfl: : God hath purpoiely put · a tranfitQry and mortall Nature into all things heere below. They fpring, and flouri{h, and dye. Even the greatefl: Kingdomes, and fl:rongefl: Monarchies, that ever were, have had as it were, their. infancy, youthfull fl:rength,' Mans fi;tte, old age, and at lafl: their grave. See the end of the mightiefl: States that ever the Sunne faw, ibadowed by Nebut:hadne:<:-:<:-an great Image, Daniel 2 ·, ver. 35. There was never Empire upon Earth. were it never fo flouri(hing or great, was ever yet fo aifured, but that in revol~tion of time, after the · manner o( other worldly things, it hath, as a ficke body, b~ene fi1bjetl: to many innovations and chan:. ges, and at length come to nothing. Much more then, tne pride and pbmpe of all ·otherinfCriour earthly glory bath f~ll~n at lafr into the dufl:, ~i1d lies now buryea ;i,il the. grave of endldTe forgetfulneffc; . For tl~ Jecond ; Imagine; 'there were confl:ancy and eternity in the forenamed earthly babies, yet what Man of brayne_, would prize them worth a Button~ ftth his life is but a bubble; and the very) ri<f;:\:t• houre or_ 4flY to come, hee may utterly. bee cut ~hlJrom them ail,, for _ever. To day Bee w Jet up, an,P ffi;ftiorr;ow "hee ]hall not bee formd : for hee u tHrned into ,dufl; __and hi! puipofo perifoeth. Take them both togetl1crt~us: Set -upon the ·.read of the Wor-· thieft man,- .th;1t the -~arth'beares, yet wanting grace, · ' · ia ·
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