SoS That worldly things are unprofitable. varighteoufnesprofit nethinn;but righteoufnes deliuereth from death?Thë lhal we findthe Prophets fimilitude fittedvntovs: 3erem.17.tr. As thePartridgegathereththeyongurhich/hebathnot drought for:h.fo hethatgeteth riches,andnot by right,[hallfranethemin themiddeff ofhisdaies,t at hie endThal bea rook-What wil it Luke ia.w, auaile vs thatwe haue al our barns ful,whê as the fame night our foules Thalbe taken fr6vs? to kaue richche(ls behindvs, andto take withvs foulesquite empty ofall graceandgood- ties? to bequeath much riches to the world,and to carrieno goodworkes with vs to the feat ofiudgement? what good will our wealth dovnto vs,which in all our flues we haue fo dearely Ioued, asthough it were this golden ladder which would mount vs vp into heauen ; feeing at this fearcfull A8s8.so. houre, Peterscurie will accompanie it; Thymoneyperil?, with thee; Becaufe we thought our hcauenlyinheritance couldhe bought with this earthly trafh ?Finally, what comfort [hall we then take inourworldly delights,feeing.likeacloud they are vanifhed away,.and haue left nothing behind thembut griefe and heauineffe ? What pleafitre (hall we.thentake in merrie company, when as now none but our mourning friends Bandabout vs?Or inour former feafling, and delight in eating anddrinking,when as our taßre failing vs, we can findno.fweetneffe in our befl dainties?Or what nowhelpeth itvsto haueoften heard melodious muficke, to haue feene many delightful!.(hewes,and to bauefpent muchofour time invaine (ports and paflimes, when as being all pafl'ed away like a dreamein the night,nothing tariethwith vs but paine, feare and anguifh ofmind? In a word, after we haue long tired our felues in hunting after thefe worldly vanities, we fhallthen conclude that we haue (pent our firength in vaine, and in our hands haue found nothing : for then all thefe things being taken from vs, we [hall go out of the worldas naked and bare as we came into it, hawing nothingof all which wepoffeffed, but a poore fheete to cover vs : and as the milllonewhich turneth about all day,grinding corne for others, andnot for it felfe, doth at night ¡land in the fame place where it was inthe morning, and after thatgreat plen- .tieofgraine hathpaffedby it, .is. emptiedof all, hauing no good
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