?fiatadworldly thingsare mutable awl vaeonfi;ant. 623 CHAP. XXVIII. Ofthemutability and:mconfIaucieof allworldly things. Nd thus haue I (hewed that all things in §.Seti.t. o the world are momentary and corrupti- That all thing: ble .Nowwe are alto briefly to fhew,that as fxheauen and they are momentany in themfelues,fothey eoh nrefubbda aremutable and vnconflant in refpeel ofvs. alteration, For though they beebut offhort continuance, yet ifthey were friendsfor life,and wouldnot forfake vs till either they perifhed,orwe died, they might bee thought more worthie our loue,ifnotfor their vtilityand profit,yet at leaf) for their fidelity andconflancie; whereas now they arc not fomo- mentanyasthey are mutable, being ready to leaue and for- fake vs euerydayoftheir fhort continuance, like fickle flat.. terers, ofwhole fauour and loue there can bee no certainty oraffurance.Andnomaruellthat thefe earthy thingsvpon which men dote are fofubie& to change, feeingall things in the world are obnoxious to mutability:the heauensthem- felues arenot free from alterations ; the funne and moone haue their eclipfes; the times varie and change one withano- ther ; the day with night, and night with day; winter with fummer, and fummerwithwinter, and neuer Hand atallay; the elements hauecontinuallytheir tranfinutationsone with another, and bymaintaining continual' warre among them- fclues, procure a peaceful' harmonie,andwell agreeing tem- perature in fiiblunarie and iinreriour bodies, - vntili one of them bathvanquifhed and ouercome all the refl;with wlfofe vi&orietheirpeace andharmonic endeth. Thus alloMonar- chies and States, cities and townes haue theirchanges and alterations,the famenation onevhile imperiouflycomma- ding, and another while feruilely obeying; and thefame d- ty at one time flourifhing in flately buildings, profitable merchandi fe, and abundanrriches ; and at another timedif- peopled,decayed,burned,and buried' in it owne rnines.Thu's you
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