Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That worldly things areunprofitable. 507 ding. How truly may we then fay to them,after that we haue our whole life relied on their helpe, as lob to his friends;Mi- Iob ths. ferable comforters are you all,feeing when we moll needre- frefhing, they will not afford vuto vs any confolation : not vnfitly in this refpe& compared to the brookes of Arabia, Mr.Greenbata> which are moli drie when the paffengers Band in moil need of water: for when we are tormented with the pangs of death, and are terrified with the threatnings ofthe law, and vexed with the inward accufations ofour owne confciences, and affrighted with the apprehenfion of Gods deferued wrath, and affaulted with the fubtile and Rrong tentations of our fpirituall enemies; and befides our owne griefes, fee our friends weeping and lamenting about vs, as being loath to part,and yet vnable to flay vs; when thefe (I fay) and ma- ny other vnauoidable culls haue befet vs; what will it auaile vs, that we haue led our whole life in flourifhing rofperity, and abounded in all which our hearts could defiire : feeing now they can minifler vnto vs no helpe, in this our fall and greateft extremítie, but le au e and forfake vs when we Rand in moll need ofcomfort? What comfort (hall we then find, that we haue fate in the feat of honor; and been advanced to the chiefe preferments, and haue for fmall or no deferts bin famous and glorious in the cares and eyes 'of men ? Seeing,as the Pfalmifl faith, thefe mortal! gods muff die asa man, and Pfa!m.82.e7. thefe Princes fhall fallltke others, and When the glerie of their hau zs oto.Fl increafed, they (hall take nothing array When they Pf>ta9tóa7 t9 e die, neither (hall their pompe defcend after :him, bat thefe bono- rableperfonaaesfhallbe like to the bes Iethatperilb:andthough they haue fhined in glorious brightneffe, while fl the lampe oflife failed, yet iftheir light be not Dill nourifhed with the remembrance oftheirvertues, graces, and good deferuings, it fhall then go out and vanifh away in finoake and flincke: what will it profit vs that we hanemultiplied our treafures as the landsniche fea,feeing thefe golden rayes fhalthë fer,and bring no comfort vnto vs in the night of death ? How true Luke Ital. . then fháll we find ourSauiour Chrifl,faying,thac our life ch.- fifleth not in our richesand abundance?How ea&ly then Rtall we fubfcribe to the laying ofthe Wife man, The treafares of Prou.to.a, varigh.