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Ofthefhortneffe and frailtieofmans life. 65 t+ when with all. ourlabour and care we haut aduanced our (clues, and by our proud ambition, haue mounted aloft veto the high ell pitch of worldly glory, wee haue in this flue no manner of flay,but when death commcrh,and clippeth our foaring wings, . we prefently fall into the lowefl condition, and become infe- riour to the tneanefiliuing creature; for a liuing dog is better then a dead lion,as the Wife' manfpeaketh;rherefore,Ifay,let vs not fet our hearts on that, with which wee cannot flay, nor Iob t4.2t.. yet when we mat leave it,haue thepower to bequeath it to our poflerity:for as fob fpeaketh, when as hee who is aduanced in the world pafeth away ,he knoweth vet ifhes fonnes Jhall be bayou_ rake, neither¡hall he vnderf and concerning them, whether they Jhall be of low degree. But let vs fet our hearts and affe6Iions vp - on thofe heauenly honours, and eternali glory, which as they. will neuer leave vs, fo (hall we neuer be takenfrom them. Andthis alto is the condition of them who abound in all 4.Secei.I3 worldly wealth; forhowfoeuer rich memtrufling in their idol That the rich the earthly mammon, promifevnto themfelues long life, and mans life is fay with the foole in the Gofpell, fatale thou halt much goods laidraarned vn- vp for many yeeres,liue at cafe, Bate, drinke, and rake thy plea fore, Luk. 2.29.2r. . yet in the fame night God is ready to take away their foules, and to place their fubflance in other mens poffeflions. Hpwfo- euer they imagine, that their bottles and habitations fhallcSnti - nue for euer,euen from generation to generation,and thereforecall their lands by their owne names ; yet they fhallnot continue in their elate, but Shall be Os the beafts that perifh, as the Pfalmifl fpea- Pfal. 0.12.22. keth. 'So leremie faith, that bee who getteth riches and not by Iert7tt right, fballleaue them in the middefi of his daies, and at his end ¡hall be a foole. And in this refpeßl the Apofile lames compareth rich Iam.r.ro.t r. men, to eleflow'er of the field, which vanifbeth away ; for as when the fannerifith withheate, then the graf withereth,and theflolber fallethaway,and the beautteof the fafhion of it perifheth: even fo ¡hallthe rich man fade way in all his waies. And this Baruch ob- ferued in the experience of his times; Where (faith he) are the Baruch 3.x6. princes ofthe heathen, that hoarded vp Auer andgold wherein men 27.19. trufi, and made none end of their gathering? They are come to nought,and gone donne to hell, and other men are come vp in their Reads. Whereby it appeareth that worldlywealth is no trueri ches,.for then itwould make vs eternally happre ; nor wee true owners 4