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624 That worldly things are mutable and totem./ lent. you (hall fee the Affyrian & Babylonifh monarchyfor a time ouertopping ail, and then flouping to the monarchy of the Medes and Perfians;and this for a while welding the fceptcr oucr al the neighbor countries,& Toone after calling it down at the feet of the Grecian monarch;and this alto after it hath had his turne and commanded in his cow fe, conquered and ouerthrowne,andthe Romanemonarchraifed out ofit tn. Ines. And finálly,though this were Ilrgnger and more dura. hie then all the ref(, yet.it had his period as well as his begin- ning, and though it had none fl'ronger to ouercome it at ,once; yet it was at length ouerthrowne by it owne power, perilhedpiece - meale, and came tosuine,not becaufe it wan - ted&rong props to vphold it, but becaufeitfelfewasouer bùrthenfome. Thus alfo wee fhall fee a change in cities and -towns as for example, in: famous Babylon,Niniue,Tyre, _Carthage,Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Ephefus, yea in Ierufa- lem it felfe the gloryofthe world. §.Seri,2 Andtherefore if there great alterations are to be obferued 7-bat we corn- in things more durable, there is no mantel! if they be more motivate mid. frequently feene in bun ant ftates and conditions, which all creatures in are innumerable times more fickle and vnconflant in them tbeir mutabili- felues and are allo fubie1 to partake with all the refi in their ty;beldesrhe "anhalterations..Forwhen the fu one and mooneare changes unto :changes whichoar owne.eclipfed,we buffer in their defekts;whe they go their:ióttrney Oates from the Eafi to the Wef ,we'alfo trauell with them tòwards iefb the fetting of our life; onely this difference there is, that they goe and returne agairte ; butafter our let there is no ri- .fing, vntill by the power ofour Iudge we rife to iudgement $time though winged cannot hafie fo faflaway, but we leitlier by a voluntarie orforced motion, equall: it fpeed, and beared ecompaniedit wereffatdeath,The elementsarefob- leato- continual( change,andwe are partakerswith them in ,their alterations : and when in the conflia which they hold in our bodies, thettaturall fire hash deuoured, and ao it were - conqukred the airie;water, it felfe aliò,hauing no other food butit,enetnies prouifion,ts ouercome in conquering, and we with them both doe fall in the battell,and die of their wóuods.And finally, there can be no change in States, mo- narchies