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.r Ofthefhortnesandfrailtieofmans life. 653 r no further conifort in them whenthe day ofdeath approcheth; for as lob faith,What hope hath the hypocrite, when he hath-heaped 1ob.z7.Y. mp riches ,if God take away hisfoule ?Finally,ifferuitïg God wee wantthefeearthly riches and abundance, let vs not bee difeon- tented in our felues, nor couic wicked men who flourifh with them, feeing the time is but fl-hort, bothofour want, and their plentie ; for death is hard at hand, and feazing on vs both, hee willl}ripthem of all their flore, and further vs to the poffeflîon of our eternal! treafitres.'Be not then afraid (faith the Pfalmill ) Pfal.49.16.17 whenone is made rieh,and?bhen theglory of his houfe is increafed; for hefhall take nothing away *hen bedieth,. neither fhall hispompe defcendaferhim. The like incouragement another giueth to the godly man oppreflèd with pouerty. Doeft thou fee them (faith he) ftrouting in the f reets, and drawing after than -their long and rich traines,whereby they raite vp a cloud of duff- inBernard.ad the aire ? let not thefe things moue thee; for all thefe they fhal Sophism viz- lay a fide at thehoure of death; when as thy vertues and 0j5gmtm. fball,flillaccompanie thee:. they are not their ovine'clothes which they. weare :for when death commeth they muff put themoff,andlcane them behind them; neither (hall their glo- ry defcend with them. To the fame purpofe another exhorteth Let vs not (faith he) aHiióì our (clues when wee behold the vn. expe6ted profperity of worldly men; Peeing when we fee rich. men paintedon a table in all their brauerie, and. poore men ill' their ragges; we neither admire theone ashappie,nor pitieChryfoflelh3 the other as being mil-et-able and yet thefe dead teluresarer.Cor.rç.ho g Y P il oftentimes oflonger continuance then lining men reprefented by them. For apinted-tablemaylaul aboue an hundred yecres, when as rich men who pleafe themfelues in their abundáncei are often taken from all in a few moneths: Yea but this -is their comfort, that whileft they line they4.See7.13. fhaileuioy their wealth, andwhen they die they fhallleaue it Thatthe hope to their heires. Iris true indeed that though rich men cannot<ofmoridtings is promifevnto themfelues long life, yet they tnay bee affured wine and vn- that they (hall haue heires; but if they meane by heires their tcberitnaki n owne children and pofterity, they ground their hopes and all to their heirs comforts vpon a falle and deceiueable ground; for howfoeuerand children. men may prouide heritages, yet it is God who appointeth heires :and though they may rake and fcrape togther riches with.. r