624 That worldlythings aremutable andtotem./ lent. you (hall fee theAffyrian&Babylonifh monarchyfor atime ouertoppingail, and then flouping to the monarchy ofthe Medesand Perfians;and this for a whilewelding thefceptcr oucr al theneighborcountries,& Toone after calling it down at the feetof the Grecian monarch;and thisalto after it hath hadhisturne andcommanded in his cow fe, conqueredand ouerthrowne,andthe Romanemonarchraifed out ofit tn. Ines. And finálly,though this were Ilrgngerand moredura. hie thenall the ref(, yet.it had his periodas well as his begin- ning, and though it had none fl'ronger to ouercome it at ,once; yet it was at length ouerthrowne by it owne power, perilhedpiece-meale, and came tosuine,not becaufeit wan- ted&rong props to vphold it, but becaufeitfelfewasouer bùrthenfome. Thus alfo wee fhallfee a change in cities and -towns as for example, in:famousBabylon,Niniue,Tyre, _Carthage,Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Ephefus, yea in Ierufa- lem it felfe the gloryofthe world. §.Seri,2 Andthereforeifthere great alterationsare tobeobferued 7-bat we corn- in things moredurable, there is nomantel! if they be more motivatemid. frequently feene in bun ant ftates and conditions, which all creatures in are innumerable timesmore fickle and vnconflant in them tbeir mutabili- felues and are allo fubie1 topartake with all the refi in their ty;beldesrhe "anhalterations..Forwhen the fuone andmooneare changes unto :changes whichoar owne.eclipfed,we buffer in their defekts;whe they go their:ióttrney Oates from the Eafi to the Wef ,we'alfo trauell with them tòwards iefb the fetting of our life; onely this difference there is, that theygoe andreturneagairte ; butafter our letthere is no ri- .fing, vntill by the power ofour Iudgewe rifeto iudgement $time though winged cannot hafie fo faflaway, but we leitlier by avoluntarieorforcedmotion, equall: it fpeed, and bearedecompaniedit wereffatdeath,The elementsarefob- leato-continual( change,andwe are partakerswith themin ,their alterations : and when in the conflia whichthey hold inourbodies, thettaturall fire hash deuoured, and ao it were -conqukred the airie;water, it felfealiò,hauing no other food butit,enetnies prouifion,ts ouercome in conquering, and we with themboth doe fall in the battell,anddie oftheir wóuods.And finally, there can be no change in States, mo- narchies
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