Chap. 20. AnExpoJition upon the BookofJ O'B. Vert. 8. 473 lycalledIn Image, becaufe as an image it is a thingonely tobe looked upon, or for a fhew. Though an image be made to the life, yet it bathno life in it ; and fo is valuable only for itsap- pearance, not for its ufe. Such a dumbePhew is the glitter and greatnes ofthe world and therefore rightly called , not onely by the Holy Ghoft, but by thofe common Writers ( who had any true judgement of the thingsofthe world) an Image or an Idol ; Which alto complyes fully with the fimilitude of a dreame, in which the miede frames within it felfe, many ima- ges and reprefentations of things, which yet like Charaâers fairely drawne upon the fand, are difcompofed and tattered bythenext puffe ofwinde. And becaufe an ordinary dreame Ng in fmrnío bath in it the leaft, the thorteft, and molt uncertain enjoyment, q i e pdii- therefore when we would thew that we never had the leaf} pronutra ratio thought, or the leali todoe abont fuch a thing we fay prover- nenllu rmrpo- bially, I didnot fo much eudreame ofit, or Ihad notfo much as to re aliquid effe. doe wirhit in adreame. Hence -obferve.; Firft; The profperitieofa (ricked man bathno redcomfort in it. There is no true fatisfac`.tion in a dreame. And that which bath onlya fhadow or appearance ofgood in it, leaveth, when 'cis part and (as the text fpeakes) fled away, roll impretliitons ofevill. True forrowes fucceed imaginary ;oyes; And every man is madeby the fomuch the more unhappy,byhowmuchhe thought he had attained happinefs, when indeed he had not. For, as thofe things which have only an appearance of terror, are more terrible afarre offthen at hand, fo thofe things which have onelyan appearance ofcomfort, afili& more when they are afarre off then ever they comforted us, whenneere at hand, anent)aconceited poffetlìon. As they who have been in a real; poffefon of good, fo they whohave had but an imagination of it, are more troubled when it is gone, then ever they fhould bave been, if they had never had it ; difappointmenr and fay- lings of expecRation about thole things which we hope to have,,, arc-as grievous, ifnot more grievous, then the Iof 'e of what we oncereally enjoyed. Now though a wicked manbath manygood things while he profpers, yet that which we pro- perly call the dreameofhis profperitie, he never bath. For fo F " _ __ with
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