Chap, 7, An Expofitionulran the Bcek of J 0 B. Verf. 16. 645 (Ifa 40, 15. 17.) The Nations are at the drop of a ludo, &c. they are vanity, yea they are nothing, yea they are counted -tohim lets then nothing; Soour dayesare vain, they are nothing but vanity, they are leis than vanity, or nothing; Nothingnefs is the fubflance of vanity, and all t-rotelolefomenefi is the accident of it. We cannot forme up an apprehenfion of our life, fo little as it is, we cannot reach fo low in our thoughts, as the bottome of mans vanity, in either notion. As we are not able to raifc our hearts fo nigh, as the excellencyof that ellate which we have by Chrift ; no mans thoughts arc big enough, or c an be, to com- prehend or to take in that : So we cannot little our thoughts e- nough to confider the eflate fin bath brought us into , therefore it is laid to be as nothing, and leis then nothing, and how antic that is, which is lets then nothing, no man can propor- tion. Secondly, our dayes arc vanity, becaule they are fo uncouft ant and changeable fo tabjed to motion and altetation. That' s a vain thing which is ever upon its change. That which lets the glory of God highefl inoppofition to the vanity of the creaturë, is, That with him there is no variablenefs, nor fhadowof turning, Jam. r. 17. or fhadow by turning , force tranflate it fo, no fha- dow by turning, becaufe the Tropick or turning of the Sun makes the shadow While the Sun is in the Zenith that is, di - reftly over heads in the highefl point of the heavens, we call in fhadowes. Now the Lord never turneth, he is ever fixed at a point, and fo makes no thadow ; or thus, as we render ir, no fhadosvofturning; that is, not only is there no turning in God, but there is not tó much as a fhadow of it,not fo muchas the lezft imagination of a thadow. This lets up the glory of God highefl; And in oppotition to this point of highefl perfeCrion in God, lies the lower pointof the creature vanity : that in them there is no thing but turning in them there is nothing but. variablenels, and the fùbllance of turning. The fafhion of the world paffeth way' it is ever palling, never ¡landing at a flay. It is more then palling, it Szcnr hoar is polling from (cage to ftage, night and day. As the nature of oranes sn let re man containes.the feeds and principlesofall things in the world ems velar ( and is therefore called a littleunorld.) So his nature contains a,undus qudj the feeds and principles ofall the changes inthe world. Therefore dam, nium muterr' his dayes are vain. nam femtata Thirdly, the vanity ofthefedayes appeares in this, becaufe they comma. Nnnns are
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