40 644 OftheJhortne' andfrailly-ofmanslife. Greg.Mora1. feth,the neerer theother approcheth to it end,&cutting off; fa lib.8. cap.7. the more isadded to our age, the more is detra6tedfrôour life, and themore timepafl is increafed, the more time to come is Wi[d. 5.13. fhortnedand diminifhed. Thus the time of infancie perifheth, when childhood approchcth;andchildhood diethwhen youth beginneth ;and youth paffeth, when ripe age commeth;and all isloft and vanifheth, when old age and death feazeth vponvs. Whereby it appeareth, that our continuance inthe world can- not truly be called alife,, feeing it is but acontinual) paffage, whereinwelike pilgrimes traue! vnto death; fo thatwhileft we Hoc ip¡rsmna liue,wedaily die,and neuer ceafedying till weceafe to liue;our fra=viaere lifebeing nothingelfebut a paffage from life, andaneerer ap- gxotidièavita proching vnto death:forfrom the dayofourbirth,totheday of tran fireeft. our death,ourlinesare in.acontinual confumption,andno foo- Greg.Moral. owe nerdbegin toliue,butwealfobegintodie;fordailyfame [email protected], part ofour hues are taken away, feeing all which is pail, is pe Seneca. rifhed,and whilefl our bodies grow and increafe, our huesde- creafe and are diminifhed. They therefore aremuchdeceiued, who account the lafl day only,the dayoftheir death Peeing we die (as it were)piece-meale, andthe longer we liue, the more death feazeth on vs,al the time which is alreadypafl,being loft genfun,face and confumed.And fo likewife theyabufe théfelues, who fee- fenfa,leaefcrt ling no decayofhealth or flrength, do imagine day after day. °`sQ°' that they areequallydiflantfront death, becaufethe alteration which. is in theirüues, commingby degrees&by littleandlit tle,is not fo eafrlydifcerned : for as their follywere ridiculous, whonot fenfibly perceiuing the going forwardofthe fhadow in the diall;orhand oftheclocke,would therfore be perfwaded that it flandeth flit!; forthoughthey fee not the motion, yete- uery hourc theymay plainly difcerne,thatit hath moucd; fo a- like foolifhare they,who not fenfiblieperceiuing,how far they hauetrauelIed towards death,doconcludewith themfelues that theyflandataflay; feeing the more.daies are added to their BaaOrar.z.q. flues, theneerer they approch totheir death, though theirpaf- dgMort. fge cannot palpablybe difcerned. For as.thofewho fadeina fhip,whether they fleepe or wake,fit orfland; go forwardwith fomedefire to arriueat the hauen,or banke,as far asthe fhipwil fuffer themwith a contrary motion, .as defirous to returne, yet theyare (till goingon,and cartedwhether they willorno,with the i
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