' 1"ft 4· · Learne the vanity of all cceatures, :and dle remedy a• gaini it. GoosName, I AM. to the HI"ue, it is as good as nothing•. 3 It tends to their owne hurt, to their owne J rume; ifth~yget wealth, favour with great men, · credit, &c. the fword turnes into. their owne bowels,theirea[ejlayu them, and it turnes to their owne defimetion. Therefore take heed ofit; if thou doell: goc about it with God, bee will give thee the comfort of it. qne thing brought to paffe by him, is better than a thoufand,by our: felves withourhim•. Learne from hence the onely remedy again~~ the vanity that all creatures are fubjeet to, that we have to doe withall ;forwhar. is the reafonof that mutabilitie we finde in all things? Is it not from hence, that they have no being of their owne? lfyoulooke to the Rocke, to the foun– dations from whence they were hewen, and . to the hole of the pit from whence they were digged, they were made ofnothing, and are rea– die to returne to nothing. Ta~e a gla1fe, or an earthen veifeiJ, they are brittle, ifyou aske the: reafon, they are madeofbrittle~aterials; plate ' · is not fo • the felfe..fame is the reafonof all the ' ~ creatures vanity under the Sunne, they aremad~ ofnothing. Tbereforethereisnoway to reme- . die this, but to lookeuptoG o'D, A8.17.'23. For inhimwe li-z.Je, mi'Vt,_ ~nd httve our being. This ' is the meaning ofit; They have not onely had their being from him at the firft, but their be– ing is inhim: 'Wehaveourbeing in him, as the Beames in dre Sunne, and an. Accident in the Subjed:. Therefore
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