Chap.22. according to S MAT r x> vv. 521 ofour felvea, even thefeed; as though now there were nothing lefc in us, but the chaff. Verle 25. When he had , 4rried a Wife, deceafed.] Thus they that will marry (hall have trouble, I, and that in the fief", where- in they haply promifed themfelves molt comfort and content- tbent. How many are there that feek an happineffe here : and, when to enjoy it might feem an happineflè indeed, they die, and then all their thoughts perifh. Inetanceswe have in eArlexander the great, Iulius Cafe., Tamberlain, whomaking great prepara- tion for theCor.gtieit oftheTur kithEmpire, died of an ague in rack hiltf. a; 6 the middeft of his great hope, and greateft power. The like might be (hewedof many learned men, that died , when they might have been matt offull,as Keckerr#n, Perkins, PreJox,Pem- ble, young Drufaus, &c. All our learning isfoon refuted with one blackTheta,whichunderftanding us not,fnappethus unrefpedive- ly without diftinetion,.andputteth at once a period to our wri- ting. and to our being. Verfe 26. e4nd thirdunto the[venth] Happy it was, if fee- ing their brethren fall fo fait, themfelves were warned to number their own daies, and provide for deaths coming. But this is not eafily done ; for we naturally dream of an immortality, Pfal.49.11. and it is death to us to think ofd.ath, though we fee fomany daily die before us. It fareth with us for the molt part, as with fatting Cattle. The Butcher comes to day, and fetcheth away one, to morrow and fetchcth awayanother, d-c, The reft that are left behinde doneither mtffe their fellows, nor dread their own deftiny. So here, this is brutifh ftuptdity, flake it off. Virfe2.y. Andlafiofallthe Woman, &c.] It is fcarce credible that one woman fhould out-Live feven husbands. But grant the did, yet impartial) death, that had fooft-times cut of her head, . hit her heart at )aft. Death as an archer aiming at us, mi{feth us eftfoons, and hittethhaply fame beyond us, fume {port of us, fome on either hand ofus ; now.our fuperiews, now oar inferi- ours, now our equals, till at length we alfoare wounded ; and the longer deaths hand is excrcifed, the more skilful) it grows. loan. A111u1.Clroroti nos deTemparibur, who is faid tohave lived in France above 300, years, died at length; So did the call, ola, the very old roan, Anno 16;5. Verle 29. re do erre, not knowing ] Ignorance is á breeder. All
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