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®n
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
took
notice
how
they
continually look'd back unto
the
wheel,
and asking
them
what the reafon
was,
why
fay they,
wee
by
this
fee the turning
of
the
things
of this world,
the
nail that
is
now on
the top,
is
by
and
by
on
the bottom,
wee
.
were
high
enough
within
a
while,
but
now are low
enough;
and the confideration of
this
did,
abate the pride of that
great Prince
tat
made
four Kings
to'
draw
his
Charriot:
So
it
is
but
a
wheel of
nature,
and
wilt
thou
venture
thy
foul for thefe things
that
have no
certainty
in
them
?
I
re-
member
Philip
de Comines
reports of
a
Duke
of
Exeter,
which
married one of the
Kings
of
Englands Sifters,
and
yet
bete
faith,
that
hge.w
as
feeta
in
the; Low
Countries
begging
*bread
bare-foot;
Oh,
therefore
would
a
man venture
the
lofs
of,i3is
foul for
thegaining
of
thefe
things
that
are,
fo
fading
and
paífing away
!
All
fief
a
is
grafs
,
and
as
the
flovvçr,
of
the field,
it
paflles
away,
and
comes
to
nothing
;
ye4,at,tl
ofe;6m5,s(wlleil:
wee have
inoft
ufe
of the
things
ci
jAw
ski
)
rtktiky.
.eárg.gokle
from
us,as
.rjbfalorf4
when
heg,A.4
4
l:
,
thettree,
and
hacl,01A
mote ufe
of
his
Mule,
theta:his
-Mule
left
him,
and
leaves him
hanging
by
the
hair
of
the
head;
foworldly
things are
moíf out
of
the
way, when
you
have
the
mofe
need of them; and
will
a
flan
venture- the,lofs
of
his foul for
the gaining of
thefe
dings
:ckoit
k
if
:1pave.
yöu
vyheta
you have
the moll
need
of,
lien?
Aben,you
lye upon your
fick
-bed
and
death
-bed,
what
good
will
it
do you
to
think
that
I
wore fine cloaths,
and I had
fo much
riches coming
in
yearly
:
Riches
a-
vail
not
in
the day of
wrath
;
but Righteoufnefs,
that delivers
from death.. All thefe things are
but fading,
and
will
fail
a
man,
when
ke
bath the
roof
need
of
them.
I
remem-
ber-
our
Chronicles
tell
a
ftr
-ange Rory
of
Richard
the
third
King
of
England
,
and
you
that
have
them,
it
is
worth
your
reading
;
I
do
not
know
that
ever
I
read
of
a
more
magnificent
Coronation
for
a
King,
than
of his,
fer
out
in
abundance
ofglory, bee had
one
Earl
that bare
before
him
his
Crown, and four Earls
carrying four
fwords before him,
onea
fword
of Rate; and another without
a
point, to
be-
token