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?fiatadworldly things are mutable awl vaeonfi;ant. 623 CHAP. XXVIII. Of the mutability and :mconfIaucie of all worldly things. Nd thus haue I (hewed that all things in §.Seti.t. o the world are momentary and corrupti- That all thing: ble .Now we are alto briefly to fhew,that as fx heauen and they are momentany in themfelues,fothey eoh nrefubbda are mutable and vnconflant in refpeel of vs. alteration, For though they bee but of fhort continuance, yet if they were friends for life,and would not forfake vs till either they perifhed,or we died, they might bee thought more worthie our loue,ifnot for their vtility and profit,yet at leaf) for their fidelity and conflancie; whereas now they arc not fo mo- mentany as they are mutable, being ready to leaue and for - fake vs euery day oftheir fhort continuance, like fickle flat.. terers, of whole fauour and loue there can bee no certainty oraffurance.Andnomaruellthat thefe earthy thingsvpon which men dote are fo fubie& to change, feeing all things in the world are obnoxious to mutability: the heauens them- felues are not free from alterations ; the funne and moone haue their eclipfes; the times varie and change one with ano- ther ; the day with night, and night with day; winter with fummer, and fummer with winter, and neuer Hand atallay; the elements hauecontinually their tranfinutations one with another, and bymaintaining continual' warre among them - fclues, procure a peaceful' harmonie,and well agreeing tem- perature in fiiblunarie and iinreriour bodies, - vntili one of them bath vanquifhed and ouercome all the refl;with wlfofe vi &orietheir peace and harmonic endeth. Thus allo Monar- chies and States, cities and townes haue their changes and alterations,the famenation onevhile imperioufly comma- ding, and another while feruilely obeying; and the fame d- ty at one time flourifhing in flately buildings, profitable merchandi fe, and abundanrriches ; and at another timedif- peopled,decayed,burned,and buried' in it owne rnines.Thu's you