--!___ o_F_G __o_n_s___, ·fupply; That is, There are many things in the Creature,thatarccrolfetovs, that faH thwart .vpon vs, there are many ils .that we fi nd in our felues,and in all things that we haue to do with. Bur, f~yth he, ifyoulookevponthe Creature, there is nothing that isable to mttkeftrrught that which is crooked: the,daughter ofAbraham that was crooked, all the Creatures both in Heaven and earth, were not able to make her thaight. A perverfe and crooked minde, who can make firaight~Crooked children who can makethem fl:raight.? Cro'1ked affections, inordinate feares, and inordinate griefes, who can rettifiethem '? An.d fo, likewife, who canfupply rhan~hich is waming'Whenhelookes vponall this, and fees it in the natur_e ofthe Creature,he concludes vp– onaii this,that all is vanitie. z When he hath doneall this, he goes further, Byhisexperi.. and confirmes this by experience of his own; e~&ce. and nowthere were two rhings whereinSttlomon did excel!,which all men would defire on earth. That is, GreatneffeofWifedome; and fccond– ly,Greatnelfe of efiare; And, fayth he, prft, be– fore I come to the particulars, .let mef:1y this to you concerning my experience,and feewhether , Twothings S~rlomondid excellin. I the arguments that are taken from thence,henot fl:rong arguments to exprelfe the vanitie ofall thingsvnderrheStmne; Sayth he,I was a King in Ieruftlem; amightie man, and t hereforeable to haue experience of thofe things that other men had not,I h2Jd opportunitie that othermen had not. Secondly; As I wasa King, [o I was· . " fu~ 0 • a.:..; . so..W -..--5¥. • •
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