Tl e Vanity of the creature. 4; thing. But now if for all this when the Moth fecretly confumes him , fo that hefeeth h4fickneífe and feeleth his wound, bee will yet truft in his owne confcls and counfe- deracies,facrifice to his owne net , goe to Afliyria or King Yard, for fuccour, I will then be unto Ephraim as a Lyon, in a more fudden and fwift deltruaion. As hee dealcth thus with men , fo with the things about them too, firft hee puts a Moth into them, mil in our gold,canker in our Glver,hcartleffenelfc in our earth, faintneffe in the influen- ces ofhcaven ; and if notwithftanding all this men will ftill truft in thcCi(tcrne, God will -.put holes into it too, which fhall make it runne cut as fait as they fill it; hee Prov.23.q. will give winos to their money , encreafe the occafions of Eccie;s.iz. cxpence : and if they clip their wings , that they fly not away, hoc will make holes in the bottome of their bags Hag r.4. that they (hall drop away : hee will not onely lend a c.7vtoth and.ruft which (hall in time eat them out, but hee will fend a Thiefe upon theirs too , which !hall fuddenly brcake throlgh and carry them. away. So many fteps and gradations are there in the mortality of the creature, when Goca plcafeth to adde his curie unto them for finne. Asfor Ephraim, faith the Lord , their Çloryfhall fly away H3Cg.tr. like a Bird , from the birth, and fromthe wombe, and from the conception, Obfervc the gradations of mortality in the heft hleffngs we enjoy, in our very glory, namely our , ïzl.is'.35 children, which arc called an Inheritance and reward to takeaway fhame from their Parents. Theylhall fly a- way like a Bird , that notes the fwiftneffe of the Judge - ment,' and that fir!} from the birth ; as foone as they are borne the murtherer (hall deftrey them : yea , from the wombe ; before they be borne they fhall perii(h, nothing ofthem fhall be enjoyed but the hope, and if that be too much , here is a degree as low as can bee, from the very conception they (hail miscarry and prove abortive. I will fmite al" winter -houfe and the fummer -homf , the .A°nos313,, hotrf s of !Vox] and the ho.ifes f all have an end. If. th e
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