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That lborldly thing! are momentanie andcorruptable. 6xx we eterirallylofethem whereas íf we loued then: aright, we world fend them before vs into hcauen, whither we £hall fltortly follow after, and they reooaine with vs, and we with them for euermore.. Finally,as worldly honors and riches,fo alto worldly plea- 4,Sea, To. ttires and deli ghtsarefhort and momentanie; like vntode- Thatmorldty lightfuli drearnes, which pleafe for the prefent,but vanifh a- Pleafares are way when one awaketh:for when men with great paines and J1'ort andino labour haue procured for them(èlttes thefe worldly pleafures, mentant'. they are readie to forfake them, as Toone as they falute them, and to end in their fruition, dying (as it were) in the verie birth.Thus do the pleafures of eating and drinking prefent- ly vanifh, as Toone as themeat and drinke is ("wallowed into the ftomacice; thus fports and paflimes are inioyed and en- ded in the fame moment; thus Tweet muficke delighteth on- ly whilefl iris in hearing, the plcafure and found at once lea - uing vs; add finally, thus goodly mask es and fhewes, giue only delight whiled they are looked vpon, and like appariti- ansno fooner appeare, then vanifh. In a word, though we fhould enjoy allworldly delights euen our whole life, Tome, few daiescxcepted, all that are paffed would not minifler a- ny comfort, to cheare and vphold vs in this (hort time of their ab(ènce, and fo is, all the:ioy ofpleafurestied to their pretence, that though we íhould enioy them the age ofMe. Ecclefiaflicus thufelah, one homes aduerfitie would make them all to be 51.17, forgotten,vnleffe they becalled to mind,as arguméts tang grauate our prefent vnhappines, becaufe now when we need twit comfort,we are forfaken ofall our fanner delights.And this momentanie continuance of pleafures, is by Zophar plainly expreffed, where he obferueth, that of old, and ester, lob1044. face Godplacedman vpon the earth, the reioycing of the wicked bath been fhort,and that the ioy of hypocrites bath /aged but fora moment. And theWife matrfamiliarly explaineth it,by com- paring thefe worldly delights to the noife ofthornes vnder thepot,which howfoeuer for the infantthey make a great crackling, and a gloriousblaze, yeteuery one knoweth,that Ecelef7 , . as they are fuddenly kindled, fo alto they are as fuddenly ex- tinguifhed; for howfoeuer they delight for theinftant, yet they :,.