224 A Commentary upon the GoOel Chap.6. 91111 the whole vifible fabrick be diffjlved by the fire of the laff day, Prov.; !,s Solomon icts forth the world by a word that betokeneth change, bocef,O71V for its mutability. And S. Paul, when he. telleth us, That the mundi,J7cdidi fa,tlhion of the zoorldpaf'ethaway, ufeth a word ofart, that fignifcth gaol tranleat, a bare external!, mathematical!figure, tutflidi nihil fubeit, nee quicquam faith an Interpreter, that bath no truth or folic:ity in it at all. in eorakile Gilliner Kingof Vandals, being conquered, and carried w triumph TE' i¿'m!" by Eellifrius the Roman General!, when he flood in the open 'Fuàcciusaxno fieldbefore the Emperour 7uflinian, and beheld him fitting to s za. his throneof State, remembring withall what an high pitchhim- fclfwas fallen from, he broke out into this fpcech, Vanityofvani- ties, all i, vanity. That was Solomons verdi&, long lince do liver- ed up, upon well grounded experience. But men love to try conclulions; and, when they have done, What profit, faith he, litbron. bath a man ofall his pains? what refidue and remaining fruit (as Ecclef a.;. the word fignificth) to abide with him ? When all theaccount is fubduJed ( his happineff refolved into it's finali iffu: andconclu- lion ) there rAfeth nothing but ciphers. A Spider cvifeerateth himfclf, and waffeth his own bowels to make a web to catch a flies fo Both the worldling for that whichprofiteth not, but pe- rifheth in the tale : Or fay that it abide, yet himfelf perilheth, when to pofï; ii the things he hath gotten might teem a happines, as the rich fool , Alexander, Tamberlain, others. Molt of the Ca/rsgat nothing by their adoption or delignation, bat, ut citi- ud interficerentxr, that they might be the fooner ílain. All, or molf of them till Coniantine, died unnatural! deaths, and in the 3er.r7.7r. bell of their time. He that ger:cthriches, and not by right, Jhall Ecclel, ç. s í leave them in the mia l ofhis daies, and at his end 'hallbe afool. God will make a poor fool of him. As he came forth of his mothers womb, naked (hall he return, to go as he came, and shall take nothing ofhis labour, which he may carry away in his hand. Say his treafure efcape both ruff: and robber, death as a thiefwill break in, and leave him not worth a groat. Who would not then fet light by this pelf, andput on that Perfian refolution, Ifa. 13. 57. dnimomagna Not to regardfilver, nor be dfrous ofQold ? Who would not tread nibil magma in the ffeps of fàithfu1l Abraham, and anfwer the devil with his Seu.e. golden oífcrs, as he did the King of Sodome, rod forbid that I ,¡bald takoofthee fó much as 4 fhoe-laschet ? When great gifts were Mtich. A33tn. fent to Luther, he ref fed them with this brave fpe: ch, V alÄe,pro. in vits Luth. tefatus f m rate "Pilefit iatiari oi Deo, I deeply proteftcd that God fhould
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