Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That worldly tbisogs are unprofitable. 509 good bythe bargaine, but to weare itfelfe out for the profit otothers -; foworld ;yancninattainingvntocarthly vanities toile themfelues the whole day of this life, and when the night of death approcheth,they are in the fame cafe that they were in whenthey began, and hauing now only theirlabour for their paines, they retaine nothing ofall that which hath paffed through their hands, but are conflrained to leaue them to the w odd, from whom they find had them. Now confider further, that byreafonofthisrelinquifl.ting 4.Sec`i.Ir all which they fo well louc,they fhall not only at their depar- That Iro lily ture bring no comfort, but much griefe and buterneffe. For things at the feeing io the whole conrfe of their life, they haue fet their al- brtnofrnucb feelions chiefly vpon them, therefore when they are con- griefe and bit. flraincdtolcauerhetn, theyfuflaine no leffe forrow, then if ternef/e. theichearts werepulled out of their bodies; and as impati- ently beare this feparation betweenc themfelues and their idols, as the enfuing feparation betweene their foules and their bodies.Thus will thepaines of death be doubled to am- Jlimors grauir bitious men (whohauingfpenttheirwholeliues in making not"' bat }qui themfelues k now nevoto others, do. die vnknownetothem. nuo- ignatnt felues)when as al their. preferments forfake them which they mordrr fibi. Ioued,as wel as their liues,and much better thentheir foules. senec. in Thus the richman grieueth to part with his riches, as much Thyéfe. as to part withktislife, and is tormented as much that ano- Morradcf"? : ther mufhhaue them, as that he mull leaue them :. and thus mogtte tordetar the voluptuous man forroweth, becaufe he muff now leaue auarue disses all his plcafant company, good fare, and delightful) fports gnodduaitiefig and paflimes, which all his life he bath loued much better fentaheua, then his owne foule. Now the re8fon of this their double to it f P po. death,and extreame forrow :is firfi, becaufe they part with 65; thefe things which their foule loueth,hauing no,hope ofob_ tainingbetter things after this life.For whereas as the Wife man fpeaketh) the roghteoua bath bis chiefs hope men ixhis Prou.14. 32 ; . death: contrariwife,trhenawlckedmandietbbu hopeperiíbeth, Prou.II.y. and the hope of the vniuFl/hallperi¡h,And what hope (faith lob) lob a.8. harArtbehypocrite, when be loath heaped rip riches,ifCJadtake a- Way his foule ?No manuell therefore ifthey forrowfully part With their falli idols, when as they hauno1uope of cnioy. ing