Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That thelborld and worldly things are momentany. 609 gard whereof there is no more conflancie to be found in the world or worldly things, then in the moone, the fca, or A- prill weather. And therefore bee is nole(lè foolish who ima- gineth that he can hold fledfafllythis flipperie cele, then he ,7ualibet eta. who -would inclofe the wind, or keepe the fea in continuali to tam?) sinus calmenefe. For when this fwcllintof prof},erity isfullc11,it ft "mpitur,gsatt is necrell to breaking; and when wee thinke our worldly e- ßátí G or, flatefecurefl,our downefall fitddeuly approcheth. And yet epiti.lib.6; there were fòtne indifferencie ifthefeworldly things were as cap.194, footle gotten as loft, and that our clime were as quickly re- paired as it is ruined; but contrariwife experience teacheth vs, that the aforo t to the obtaining our worldly deft :es is by little and littie,and the dcfcentheadiong ;that.wearelongin . gathering that echich in a moment is kattered;and lofe that in an honre, which with great care and inceffant labour, we haue hardly attained vnto in our wholeliues. It is true indeed that howfocuer Chefworldly things bee Ó.Se17.4. in themfelues alike momentanie and vncertaine, yet with That we cannot Lome they make a longer,and with others a (hotter flay, as it recto e y gs, pleafeth our great Lord and mailer to difpofe of them. Far and d lyPoout fotnearelonginobtainingthem ,andinamomentarefpoi- leave°ric ng. led of them, and haue no time to enioy the fruit of their te.. them. thous labours, there worldly things whole company they fo long defired,faluting them andbidding them farrweli in the fame day .The which the Wife man fignifeth,whenashee faith, that the deceitfnll man rofleth not that he toolkein ban, Pro.ra.a7. ting.In which cafe worldlings haue nogood by there things whereupon they haue het their hearts, hauing onelya rail of them to inereafe their longing, and long lulling griefs, for their loPt delights. Sometime they make a longer flay, and Hoc vnumfcio, giuefomelittle comfort by their fruition. But though they amnia mmta -r- prefentlyperilh nor,yet are they alvvaiesasperifhing ; and talrratedamna. though they haue Tome fhort reprieue, yet the fentenceofta junt.rnrer mortality, and.mòmentany mutability being paired, they peritura can give vnto vs no affurance of their abode. In refpeól of Senec. which vncertainety the wife man willeth vs,. not to bail our P 9 :Pines fomochas eta morrow ;hecanf tree doe not knovwhat es Prom' .1. ásymtey bring firth. To which purpofe another faith, that R r curry