Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Afrbe arift rieswhich acceeépanyworldlythirgs. 561 to breake open his cheffs, and to fpoilc him of his treafures; and therfore thinking no knowne arength fufficient to keep his gold andliluer from force or fraud, hcc hideth it in the ground,being ready to fufpcél his eyes and heart, as prink tohisfecrecie, left imparting it to his tongue, it fhouldre- ueale it at vnawares either waking or flecping. And as one of the ancients noteth, fuch is the madneffe cf thefe greedie muckwormes, that after they haue with fweating paines, Bafl.orat.rq, fearched for their treafures in the bowels of the earth, they de diuitijs & are ready with fhiuering feare to hide and couer then, in the fa °l'ertite earth again ; like the adders yong, which being newly come out of their dams bellic, glide and returne into it for fafery,, when as they are frighted with any danger. Yea and as though notwithflanding all this, it were not fafe enough, they arc ready ( as one faith) to lie ouer the place in which Multi defif® their gold is hid, and to b uric their harts together with their auro iawbant, treafures, that it may bee the better watched. In a word, as rrmee"um they neuer thinke their money free from danger, fo are they rota: eorunt neuer free from feare, they neuer fecurelyeate or fleepc, but terra. Ambrof, as the holymartyr laid, they figh at their banquets,although de lacob.cap. they drinkc in the richcil plate; and after their fcafls, when 5tomq they haue laid downe their bodies made leane with cares, mo rian de and euen hid them in their beds of downe, they watch and Serm. can take no refl in their for-dodging; and when buta motile flirreth, they are ready to hale vp,fufpci9inga rheefe;not vnderffanding,wretches that they arc, that all their wealth Both but bring vnto théglorious punilhments,that they are fettered with theirgold,and pof e fed of their riches, w hilefl they thinke they pofheffe them. The which follie of ouer carefullkeepingtheir Nvealtb,as it is in all fottifh and abfurd, fo it is moil ridiculous, and yet moll common in old men; which though they haue alreadie one font in the graue, yet doe they inthiskind fhew their foolifhfeare more then any other; burying their trcafures in the earth, not long before themfelues are buried, as though howfoeucr they neuer had any good ofthem in this life, yet they werein fore hope to haue it in the life to come. The which dotage befalleth men through the iufl iudgement of God; for when they 0 o 4 neas gleF