çhap. I.{.. An E. position upon the Booko fJo s . Véff. 2 59 continueth not. Death is a perfect shadow, and a fhadcw is the fìmilitudeof our imperfec`f life : To have no shadow of turning notes.the perfectionof God, (7am. i..r7.) To turn like a shadow Et nungsean notes the imperfeftionof man. The Vulgar tranflates, He con_ in eadem_II a- tinueth not in the famestate. taepermanet. There is a threefold state of man. 1. A natural Bate. z. A Vulg. civil hate.. 3. A spiritual hate. The two former of thefe, are of little or no continuance, the third doth not alwayes continue in the faritc hate. I he natural ftate.of man ma-y be eonfidered, -' First, rn referenceto his *body, this fullersan alteration every day, either a perfeft alteration, as in thofe that are young,-- or a corruptive alteration, as in thofe who are of full age : Yea, theperféftive alteration of the-$pdy; tends to a corruptive alte- ration, and while we aregrowingnftlong'er; we'a2+e hahtriiitginot only to weaknefs, but to tliffolútion.! Secondly, The natural state of maxi maybe confidered in re- ference to his mind : This continiit riot inlonehate. 'Tis the foiepriviledg.of God t9 be 9ia ai& He (faith yob, Chap. 23 j 3,) 6 in orae ,nan 0. 0171 thribiioti? men are in twenty mind tby cannot b9r, Fi t ;` We iife:co :fayof fever-il men, ó iñanp'men, fe any man4 : But we may! :.obferve in the fame man, How ninny' miyclesìe mìnde' of man is more mutable then theWind or WWeathg.: Now he is pleafed, -anon he is angry, now be likes, anpn.hp dif4kes,; no he 10 anon hchates,now hé w11,ÿ, by and y hewsnot TheWill,' theAffertions, the Ilnderhaand n :ot man, are fo ofteninnew 'habits' and Changes;of Dref e are shaped in filch various forms of Opinion and Judg- ment, that 'cis hard to faywhat any mans mìnde is,and there are not many wiio know, their own mindes. A:tcl as man continues not in his natural hate, whether of a;:?oc yto±mild ; .fo his cavil stateis of as little continuance: `whe- ttOer v ;lookupon him, i If his Honour. or z.Inhis Poser.or hasRiches. or 4. Inhis' Relations. Ì leave the Reader toen- .;Iar } on thefe commonplaces of mans mutability. Dayunto , 4yi iíSR report, and every daie.s experience is a Sermon of thefe,triipgs.:Yea,howmáuy have We feen in oneday,hononrable ala4-difl ctnoupablc, in fulïi fs ofpower:, and emptiedof all their power ,,abolinding in riches,and brought to beggery, compaffed . about mill friends andkindred, with wife and children, and yet forfaken
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