That worldly tbisogs areunprofitable. 509 good bythe bargaine, but to weare itfelfe out for the profit otothers -; foworld ;yancninattainingvntocarthly vanities toile themfelues the whole day ofthis life, and when the night ofdeath approcheth,they are in thefame cafe that they were in whenthey began, andhauing now only theirlabour for their paines, they retaine nothing ofall that which hath paffed through their hands, but are conflrained to leaue them to the wodd, from whom they find had them. Nowconfider further, that byreafonofthisrelinquifl.ting 4.Sec`i.Ir all which theyfowell louc,they fhall not only at their depar- That Iro lily ture bring no comfort, but much griefe and buterneffe. For things at the feeing io the whole conrfeoftheir life, theyhaue fet theiral- brtnofrnucb feelions chiefly vpon them, therefore when they are con- griefeandbit. flraincdtolcauerhetn, theyfuflaine no leffe forrow, then if ternef/e. theichearts werepulled out of their bodies; and as impati- ently beare this feparation betweenc themfelues and their idols, as the enfuing feparation betweene their foules and their bodies.Thuswill thepainesofdeathbe doubled toam- Jlimorsgrauir bitious men (whohauingfpenttheirwholeliues in making not"' bat }qui themfeluesknownevoto others, do.dievnknownetothem. nuo- ignatnt felues)when as al their.preferments forfake them which they mordrrfibi. Ioued,aswel as their liues,and muchbetter thentheir foules. senec. in Thusthe richman grieueth topart withhis riches, as much Thyéfe. as to part withktislife, and is tormented as much that ano- Morradcf"? : ther mufhhaue them, as that hemull leaue them :. and thus mogttetordetar thevoluptuous man forroweth, becaufehe muff now leaue auarue disses all his plcafant company, goodfare, and delightful) fports gnodduaitiefig and paflimes, which all his life he bath loued much better fentaheua, then his owne foule. Now the re8fonof this their double to itf Ppo. death,and extreame forrow :is firfi, becaufe they part with 65; thefe things which their foule loueth,hauingno,hope ofob_ tainingbetter things after this life.For whereas as the Wife man fpeaketh) theroghteouabath bis chiefs hope men ixhis Prou.14.32 ; . death: contrariwife,trhenawlckedmandietbbu hopeperiíbeth, Prou.II.y. andthehope ofthe vniuFl/hallperi¡h,And what hope (faith lob) loba.8. harArtbehypocrite, when be loath heaped rip riches,ifCJadtake a- Wayhisfoule ?Nomanuell therefore ifthey forrowfully part With theirfalli idols, when as theyhauno1uope of cnioy. ing
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