upo,. the Epiflle of JAM E s. .\. ing and decaying object we might be remembred orour own Moc- .tality; as alfo to check thofe proud defires, which are in Man, of an eternal abode, and lafiing happinefs, in this life. In that place of Job there is aMonument of mans fr.ailty fee forth in all the Elements : Go to the Land, and there is a poft; go to the Sea, and there is a fwift jbip; look to the Ayr, and there is an Eagle. The Heathen Poets are much in decyphering the frail eftate ot man : uE{ch; !m faith, Mans life is x,J,71'1''4 rJ'Jd11., the foadow offmokf; and Pindarm, qx,ltt.t ~VDtf, the dream of a jhadfw : the fimilitude ufed here is that of a•wtpor. ·rwere to trifle to lbew the ,refernblance in other things: :cis brought onely to thew the fwife pa[age of it; and becaufe mans life is but alittle warm breath tunned in and out by the Nuftrils ; a narrow paffage, and foon flopped : Jfai. z. 2 2. Obferve out of the whole Verfe two Points: Ob·r: t I · • · . 1 erva • • t. That We h.:zve no aJTur~~c~ of our !tves and CIJmforts, and t Memoram the events of the next day. Tls a coml'l1on Argumem; t Hea- d1·vos habuit thens are moch in it. Well then,. Let every days care be enough for faventes crapi– it felf, and ltve every day as the lafl: day. Petrach telleth of one, ntt'?lttt rofl~t who peing invited to dinner the next day, anfwered, Ego 1 multu ~be po!tucrz. ~itnu craftinum nonhabui; I havenot had tl morrowfor thefc ma- p~Z~~:s· futuri ny years. Aoci, Ludovicm Capcllm telleth us of one R~ebbi Elea- tempuris exi– .t.er, that advij(d men to repent but one da; before their death, that tum calig,i~of4 · is prefemly, it may be the next before the la11. Tis a (ad thing noOle PHremzc '{i r1 d h S 1 '· Dew.. urar. to promt eour 1e ves mltnJyears, an to ave our ou s taKen away t'hat 'I'Jight: to meafure out our time and years by our carnal projects, and of a fudden we and all our White thoughts perijh, Pfol. I 46. 4· Godly men wait for their change; upon others it cometh unexpected: ·risobfervable, that of bad men •cis fa id, their Souls are not refigned, but tak.fn away: {ob z7. 8. what hope J;ath the, Hypccrite, When G~d foal/ tak.f 11.way his Soul? So Luk_. 12. 20. Thu tJight foal/ they tak.g away thy Soul. Wicked men would dwell longer inthe body, their carnal projetl:s are never at an end ; but of a fudden God cometh and fnatcheth away their Souls. z. Mtm.s life is veq fhort : •tu a vapor that foon appeareth and Ob/erv. 2. difappeareth, difperfed asfoon as raifed: P(al. 39· Surely every .u Ne(ti!J a~ man W11.tk!th in avain foew: Though they tofs to and fro, yet the dtcenda f 1t vz– wnolecoprfe of their lives is but as aflyinu jbad()w ; a little fpot of ta.tmlo~tatu, an T . b E .. • ,n· 6d b h llvtaMmors• . tme. et~een two..ternmes. u Au1.~!' ou tet whether to ea Aug. J. 1 .Con.f lt adJmg life,ora lwmg death. I. Thts checketh thofe th1t pa{s fc{f. • T t t II.Wa) '
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