MEW That worldly thingsaremutableandvnconffant. day narchies and cities,where we inhabit, but wee likewife haue a (hare in their alterations, laughing in their mirth,andwee- pingitrthcir mourning.Nomaruell therefore if the efiateof man be changeable, feeing he hatha great part inthe alte- ration ofall other creatures, andbefides hath in himfelfe in- numerable internal!caufes ofvariable mutation. In regard Scnec.epifk.çp whereofonefaith,that none of vs are the fame in our age that we were inouryouth; noman is the fame to daythat he was yefierday; but ourbodies arecaried in a continual) mo- tion, like vnto riuers, andall we looke vpon doth run away with time nothing remainingthe fame to morrow as wee now fee ir; yea euen I (faith hcc)while{} I fpeake of chan- ging,ammy(elfechanged. Neither are ourbodies more mu- table then our efiates, which through the whole courfe of ourhues are daily fubieEt toalterations, and nothing conti- nueth firme and permanent in them, but as the traueller is fometimes on the high hils, and fometime in the low val- leies, and fometimewalking on euen ground : fo wee in our pilgrimageare onewhile aloft in the mountaines ofprofpe- ritie, and foone after in thelow dalesofaduerfity,and fome- times in ameane and euencondition betweene both; or like vnto thofethat are failing on the fea,who areone while lif- ted as it were to the clouds, and in an infiant buried in the deepe ; one while becalmed fo as they cannot goe for- ward,and by andby hurriedwithaboifterous tempefi; now indanger ofru(hing one againftanother, and Toone afterof dafhing againfra rocke; fometimes fuffring fhipwracke,and alwaïes fearingit; neitherare theyeuer fecure,and at refi,till theybe arriued in the hauen :for fo in this life wee are fome- time aduanced, and fometime abafed, one while fluggifh with too muchprofperity,fo aswe cannot moue in any good andchriflian courfes,and another while toffed andturmoi- led with theblufiring fl:ormesofaduerfity,whereby though we make more fpeedy progreffe, yet not without many troubles,and muchdanger.In regard whereof the fayingof the fonne ofSyrach is verified, thatno men isto beWickedhap- Eccle(ialtieua pie beforehisdeath,becaufea pleafant beginning, hath often t' 28. aforrowfullprogrefíe,andawork ending; yea fometime he S f who
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