206 Chap. 19. eon Expofition upon the Book,of j o B. Verf. 9. in this poynt, yet experience fpeakes it ; and ifexperience had ne- ver fpoken it CO this day , nor given an instance of a decaying Crowne, yet reafon fpeaks it, and tellsus from the nature of all earthly things that it may be fo, though in the event it had not as yet ever been fo. But whennot onely reaton and Scripture tell us this, but mai,y and many experiences witneffe it , who can doubt it? nor shall 1 here adde any more to confirme it , having at the urnChapter, as alto from other paffages of this booke, taken occafion to touch this argument , the changes of Princes, andofall earthly things. Onely take thefe two admonitions, by wavofCorollary from it. First , Set not your affeftions upon things here below , set them not upon earthly glories upon earthly Crownes. 'Tis no wifdóme to hold that fait in our affections, which we can- not hold in our poffeffiion , or to love that much , which may fpeedily be loft. Solomon reprooves thattinadvifedneffe with a vehement expostulation, ( Prov. 23. 5.) Wilt thoujet thine eyes upon that that is not ? for riches certainly maks themfelves wings, efrc. While rich men make locks and bolts , while they make clogges and fhacklesto keepe, yea to imprifon their riches, their riches are as bulle in making themfelves wings to flie away. And becaufe few will beleeveor credit this report ofriches, but judge it a very flounder , therefore Solomon doubles the word for con- firmation, which we render, Certainly, riches doeit. We are not certaineof any thing that riches will doe for us , onely we may be certaine, they will doe as little for us as they can, and a great deale leffe then wee expect, when we heare for certaine that they aré making ( not feete) but wings to be gone, yea to flue from us. Now Teeing it is fo , is there not much reafon in Solomon reproofe , wilt thou fee thine eyes , or (as the He- brewText hath it with much elegance) Wilt thou caufe thine eyes to flie upon that which is not. A covetous mans eye is as gree- dy after riches as a ravenous bird after its pray, and therefore he is , with much fignificancy laid to caufe his eyes to flie upon riches. But !hall our eyes, much more our hearts (ufually the eye moves after the heart, though occafionally the heart may ; move after the eye, but shall eyther our eyes orhearts) flue upon that which is flying, or make much haft to get that, which makes fo much haft from us when wee have gotten it ? Ifour crowne of earth-
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