Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

SoS That worldly things are unprofitable. varighteoufnes profit nethinn;but righteoufnes deliuereth from death ?T hë lhal we find the Prophets fimilitude fitted vnto vs: 3erem.17.tr. As the Partridge gat hereththeyongurhich /he bath not drought for: h.fo he thatget eth riches,and not by right ,[hallfranethemin themiddeff of his daies,t at hie endThal be a rook -What wil it Luke ia.w, auaile vs that we haue al our barns ful, whê as the fame night our foules Thal be taken fr6 vs? to kaue rich che(ls behind vs, and to take with vs foules quite empty ofall grace and good - ties? to bequeath much riches to the world,and to carrie no good workes with vs to the feat of iudgement? what good will our wealth dovnto vs,which in all our flues we haue fo dearely Ioued, as though it were this golden ladder which would mount vs vp into heauen ; feeing at this fearcfull A8s8.so. houre, Peters curie will accompanie it; Thy moneyperil?, with thee; Becaufe we thought our hcauenlyinheritance could he bought with this earthly trafh ?Finally, what comfort [hall we then take in our worldly delights,feeing.like a cloud they are vanifhed away,.and haue left nothing behind them but griefe and heauineffe ? What pleafitre (hall we.then take in merrie company, when as now none but our mourning friends Band about vs ?Or in our former feafling, and delight in eating and drinking,when as our taßre failing vs, we can findno.fweetneffe in our befl dainties?Or what nowhelpeth itvsto haueoften heard melodious muficke, to haue feene many delightful!.(hewes,and to bauefpent much ofour time in vaine (ports and paflimes, when as being all pafl'ed away like a dreamein the night,nothing tarieth with vs but paine, feare and anguifh ofmind? In a word, after we haue long tired our felues in hunting after thefe worldly vanities, we fhallthen conclude that we haue (pent our firength in vaine, and in our hands haue found nothing : for then all thefe things being taken from vs, we [hall go out of the world as naked and bare as we came into it, hawing nothing of all which wepoffeffed, but a poore fheete to cover vs : and as the milllonewhich turneth about all day,grinding corne for others, and not for it felfe, doth at night ¡land in the fame place where it was in the morning, and after that great plen- .tieofgraine hathpaffedby it, .is. emptied of all, hauing no good