Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

It a Beautiefetteredfrom true vertue,is tobe contemned. tic of the skinne doth moli exalt vs,we fhould be fufiìcient. ly humbled, if we would but confider the vgly loathfomncs of that which it containeth. But though thisbeatific were offome excelleucie whileft eeautie is mo- it continueth, yet is it to bee efleemed oflittle worth,in re- mentanieand Bard that it is fo momentanie and fo mutable. Inrefpc& mutable. whereof the Wife man faith that it is not only vaine,but de- Ancrp3 ceitfull alfo,giuing men the flip when they thinke that they bonum morta!- hold it fafieti,like a fhadow that vanifheth whilefi one thin - bur es ;unm keth to embrace it : for if man himfelfe be fo momentanie, durum, b eui what (hall we thinke of beautie which is but an accident of ¡emponrmo- this fubieói and commonl vanifheth thefubfiancefull ce- mr.eze. mainin ?ifhebebutaflowerofthe field which isbuaofa tur,,tc, g , Senee. in Hip. day or weekes continuance; then how fraile and fading is polyto.1.760. the celour of this flower which often fadeth a great'while, of this Gnall time, before the flower dieth? Ifinanbee but a cloude, then furcly beautie,may bee fitly refembledto the bright lightning which ifT'ueth out ofir,and vanifheth in the twiucklingofan eye. 'Whereofit is that the kingdome of Socrates vera- beautie is Paid tobea tyrannie,which is violent for thetime, bat cimemporitbutoffhortcontinuance. T at o this purpofeone faith, tyrannidon. the hearbe f)iringing with his beautiful/ flowers, doth delightthe i;rufon.lib.z. eye,and by little and little fading lofeth his beautie,and ra turned. 0p.44. into hay ; fo all the beatiticofinen buddeth in the Bringof child Hiceos.Epifl. hood, flowreth andflorifheth in the fummerafyouth, and perleIP ad Cyprian. age,and fuddenly when the winter ofage commeth, thehead vn- Tom.3. Et repentè dam wittingly groweth gray, the faceVorinkled, the Airiest wrehlea, ne /cit,ince- andfo farreis he no* frombeautie,that hee bath Trarre the vfe netts / twat ,ru. of hislimmes for thefloweftandweakefi motion. But asitis trio. gam. foots, tn mencan ,fo allo is it utable,and vncertain to continue this mot' f}torttime ; for this flower ofbeautie is fubieéi tobe blafied with innumerable accidents,a little fcratch impaireth it,and a greater wound cloth quite deforme it;a dales ficknesmuch abateth it, and if it bee but of a weekes continuance, Both quite deface ir, yea fo fading it is that a little funfhine rob- beth vs of it, this earthly beautie being not able to endure that heauenly brightneffe. Or though it be preferued from the violence of extraordinarie accidents,yet time,which by little .,...,.,m-.,..-..