336 Chap. 9. An Expoftion upon the Book of J p $. Ver[.zy, time, the time of profperity. The bed things of the world arc hi a moveable. in a puffing, potting condition, They fcarce a- bide with acs lung enough to learn what they are. Ifa man ride putt, we can hardly difcern mho he is. The good things of the world, the pleafures and pre,fit.s, the form and faton ofitpair a- way iò fait, that none can perffdly report what they are, ex- cepting this, Tranfitoryand vain : As the artificial falhions ofthe world, the fashions in building and in apparel', pals fo fpeedi- ly, that few know what the faihiun is, before 'tis gone; a new one is abroad, before the greatelt number are in the old : So the natural fathions of worldly things, (form; in themfèlves, all as to our enjoyment) the excellency and dignity, the ludre and beautyofthe creature are out of tight, before we can well fay of what colour and fhape, or what manner of things they were. When the Painter takes the perfe6t featureofa mans face, or the lineaments ofhis body, he mud lit. The world fits not fo long with any man, as for him to takeithe pictureof it. Creatures pe- rifh in their ufing; while they are inour hands we know not what they are, for even then they are perifhing and declining from what they were. One Paid when a creature comfort was taken from him, if I had it again,methinks I could enjoy it ; we feldom enjoy what we have. And what we have is al wayes in traufztu, palling from us, while we have it ; it is in motion, while in pof- f 1liun. We can fcarce be acquainted with it, becaufè it ttayes fo little with us. Hence Job concludes this fimilitude. 7beyfee no good. My good dayes run fo fad, that I cannot fee the good of them. Not tofregood,is,not to have the lean experience ofgood. For the eye takes in it's objects, and judges ofthem (fo much Philo- fophers teach) fooner then any other fen 'è.' The eye is not long about it's bufînefs. It is the fenfe ofquicken difpatch. So that it is,as ifJob had faid,the good things ofthis life are fo tranficnt, that I am fo far from feeling or tatting them, &o. that (which is done with the lean delay, and expence of time ) I have not Omnia enEh time enough to fee them. When men ride upon fpeed, or when pi.rrcptafunt any thingpaffes fwiftly before ins, we have but a glimpfc, fcaree prinfqu:nt ea a tight of thole objeds. o`er`, r3cs' Besides, To feegood is to enjoy good, as was (hewed, Chap, 7. verte 9 And when he faith, they (Jëil, his dayes)Rry nogood,his ear.ing
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