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384 Motiues
to
pert
racde
vs
to hit
flea our
repentance.
pilgrimage,
to
the flower and
graffe of
the
field,
to
the
wind,
a
cloud, finoke, vapour, to
a
dreame,
a
tale
told,
a
(panne,
fhadow,
and
the
paffage
of
ÿ
weauers II:urtle,
yea
it
is
called
van itie
it
fclfe.
And therefore
Peeing
our
flues
are
fo
fhort,
fiirely
they
are
al
too
little though
they
were
w
holly
(pent
in
Gods
feruice;
but feting
weehaue
(pent
a
great part
of
this
fhort
time,cuen our
whole
life
before our conuerfion,after
the
lufls
of
the
Gentiles, let
vs
thirike
that
enough,yea farre
too
much
to bee
fo ill
bellowed,
and
from
hence
for.rard
let
vs
liue(as
mach
time as
remaineth
in
e,2,)
not
after
the
lull;
ofinen but
after
the
iril1
of
ad.,
as
the Apoíile admonifheth
vs,
I
.Pet.4.z.3.
But
though
our
life were
fhort,yet
if
this
fhort
time
were certain there were
Tome
more
Phew
ofreafon why
we fhould
defer
our conuerfion;but
as
it
is
fhort,
fo
is
it molt
vncertaine, for
wee haue
not
afhurance
that
wee
(hall
liue
one houre,
wee are
tenants at
will
in
thefe earthly
taberna-
cles,
neither
doe wee
know how
Toone
our
great Landlord
will
turne
vs
out
ofthem;
we
are
the
Lords (lewards
here
on
earth,and
we
know
not
hov;'
Toone
our Lord
and
mailer
will
call
vs
to
a
reckoning,and
therefore
it
behouech
vs,to
haue our accounts alwaies
perfeeó,
and the
booker
of
our
confciences made
vp in
readineffe.
We
are
vncertaine
when
death
will arrefl
vs
and
carrie
vs
to iudgement,and therefore
we fhould
be prepared for
it at
all
times; when
we
go
to
bed
we
are
fo
to
lay
vs
downe
as
though wewereneuer
to
rife
till
we
rife
to
receiue
our fall fcntence; when.we
rife vp
in
the
morning
wee-are
fo
to
fpend that, day
as
though
it
were
the
Taft
ofour
flues,
for
how
manic haue
gone
well
to bed
who
haue been dead
before
the
morning,?
how
manie haue
rifen
(as
they
thought
in perfe&
health)
and
yet haue been
at-
tached by death
before the euening?
and
therefore it
be-
hooueth
euerie
one who hath any
regard
of
the
eternall
station
ofhis
fouie
to turne fpeedily vnto
God,
and while to
day
they
heare
his,
voice
not
to
harden
their hearts.
Men
vfùallie
delaicmattcrs
of
leafi
waight
and in
the
firfi
place
difratchbufirnçf
feofgreatef}iniportance,
and therefore
vn-
leffe
we
thinke
the.perferuing
ofour
bodies and
foules
from
the
eternal}
torments
of
hell
fire,
and
the
affurance
of
euer
--
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