774. ARevelation ofthe Appcalypfe. CAP.'S. ufe of it at folemne meetings in time of peace ; But they are all brought in toexpretfe the joy and iollity which `I me lived in, as we learn out of Jeremy ,from whom thefe words are taken, fo that it were againfl learning,yea reafon it felfand fcope of this place ; to makea long talke about 7'ipes ufed at funeral/J., as the Iefuites doe in this place. Andno craftfman. After thofe things that belong to expreffe that which helpeth to nourifh and teftifie their voluptuous life,he cometh to fpeakof thefe things which come more neer to exprefs that which helpes to keep life and foul together ; of which kinde of matters, there is more neceffarynfe,fuch as Artificers, and Mills be. Where - foever there is any fociety among men, there mutt needs be Artifi- . cers, but yet thefe men cannot work unleffe they have fome viftuals to feed on; thefe therefore they the more expreffe, that helpeus to bread and drink,without which no man can fcarce live one day. Be- hold then into what a pitiful! eltate thy Riotoufneffe (hall bring thee at length O Ronne ; it (hall bring confufion even thofe inftruments, which thou. haft abufed to vanity and wickedn(h, not leaving thee any courfe, meanes, and hard fare to maintain thy life with ill, when thou wallowefa in thy wealth, dicta care for nothing but to gurmandize, and to provide for thole Beaftly guts of thine, that thou mighteft fatifrie thy filthy lulls in living in Epicuri(h and a fen fuall liir. Verle 23. And the light ef the. Candle. Candles bee for our comfdrt and helpe in the night feafon , the Life whereof no man will want, though he be. ofnever fo poor and mean estate.' But what great dammage will this be ( may force lay ) no .lofe ft.cla trifling matters that are of fo fmall value and or unary ule with ns. Such pelting commodities as thefe, are molt fitly brought inhere to lay forth the grievoufneffeof this deífruetion. For if there will not be a fupply of filch matters as thefe, that are but of ordinary and mean reckoning , which be alto molt commonly ufed among men, we arc not to think or look that men ('hall come caGly, or at all by fuch things, as are of any fpeciall moment, unlcífe perhaps,lights are to be referred to the Bridegroome and the Bride, which follow, after. Lights were wont to be ufed folemnly in marriages ; Where- uponour Saviour maketh that Parable of the ten Virgins,. which t'aent o et With their Lampes to meet the Bridegroom., Matth. 25. t. Doubtleffe Chri(t borroweth his fìmilitude from a matter that was then commonly ufed in loch cafes. Among the. Grecians, the chil- dren
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