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Show The Preface. The Preface, ert dafire(as Balaatndid) rodicthe death.ofthe righteous.» But what hall we call a\ds/eftedmingan appofingor(indeeds)a mocking of God : if thofe'men doe not apipofedbundefoftetenie bimand mocke himthabthinkeit.enough for God) to.aske hamforgivenc)ieanles/ure . apie thervindindencand lafhdrawingof a malicious breath? For wbatdee they orberwifesthatidrishis kinde\ofarel-dyingybut fay vnto Gidvas fallometb?Ie befecch thee0. Godsthatall thefalfhoods, forf weavings and sreacheries ofdundiues paftymaybe pleafingynto theesthat thonwilt for our bakes (thathanebad.noleifuretodog aity thingfor thine)change thy natnre (though im: pilsible and foryet tobe -ainft-Godrsthat-thov wilt lone ininres and appre|cions callambirion-wijedome, and charity foolifhneffe. For 1'fhallpreindice my /onne (mbich Eanterefolued nottodoe,) if Linake veftitution . and confeffe'my felfe to hanebeen vninft;<which Lamtoo proud todo)if1 deliner the oppreffed.*Certaines lysthefe wife worldlings haieeitherfound ont anew Godjor madéOne: and jwvall likelshoodfuth-a' Leaden. Qne, as Lewistheelenenth ware in bis appe . which «apheit head caufed any that hefeared,or hated,to be killed, ke would take it from "* bis heqd-and kaffe it': befexching:st to pardon :bim this aneienili atkmore andit foould be the laftwhich(as at othertimes) he did,when bythe practice of 2O ardi= nall anda falfiified Sacrameni:shécaufed the Earle ofArmagnac tobeHabbed to deathimackeriesindeed fit tobe vfed towards.a Leaden, but icoestbaouordestbe'csrbrc lining God. But of this compofition. are all denout donee of the World that the feare all that és durelef]eandridiculows:they feare the plots andpraétices of shel oppofites,and their very whiSperings theyfeare the opinions ofmen which beate but uponfhadowes; they. flatter and forfakethe progperous and vaprosperous, beitbey friends orAungs Kings:ijea they reydi dine conier waterlike; ‘ flone,that § but throwne "ee shea Thsmbenehitioned a ue Duck ] : iret Sas pes chem bya powerfulbhand: and onthe contrary, Y-_ and (wiantlike valour; againft the terrible indgements of godsiagainft Godyand flanes tos weitdioT re:men : iacapsa jtowards Who/e bodies ang and confciences i ‘ BY che * are alikerotten, ; aoe:feaes ifine truly itaminethe-differente ofboth conditions.to witof oty, whom wetall 3 whom oRnn5al Be if fortunate: te; and of : thepoore ¢> oppreffed, secthenfotiedy Gettpshe eeepetheme andthe miferabl Pateof ahonkeCneitne a m re tothe very vinfiant, and: both fo fabieét co enters coneae fe aiebee feiallof'thegreate/t Princes and the/peedy vprt SOF the meaneft perfons) usthe one hathnorh, ‘i : norte other Jovncertaine. yy) 2 chnorling fo certaine, whereof' to boaft': itfelfe. For'there isno manfo a/besa eons ae fuved of his : : bovids b es of hist his cm health,or life. but that he may be deprined of Pybine pbheovery next boureor.dayto «i a certum ry \ : Gayto come, uid vefper In- i mannedee cucning will bring withit ‘aaa aa! jet . ¥E.C. ee ks ae S.lameswhat {hall bétomorrow tomorrow ne {hallmoc be fourid: for heeis tur To d: hei ven di db,fand bis purpole perifheth. 4nd althoughthe: eee cole 3 tirea bi 7 ob/cure:yeotherin webetter difcerne Gold. the than inah tlk yp enuirofining light which nit. atMince wan e orldly glory ; through whic‘ h; for thec leer n vamnty no s therei effethereof; . ve e[Capetonnfight.dnd lecadner fity fee m whatir willito bappy men vidicuous.» who make themfelnes\merry ‘at othe rtunnes,; and ea-thhofe eer the croffe ; mmens. misfo of fortso ist 7He ebis yet ous.: Srien , That Sor. all that is paft yb the veryiinflant, the portions remaining are equ all toeitber. "For be it chat wee bane hane lined manyyeares,and (accordimg to Salomion ) imthem all wee hauere- and therein baue ioyced:'or beit that webaue measured thefame-length of dayes, weefinde boththe evermore forrowed :yet looking backe fromour ‘prefent being, death, which énd and the otber,to wit, the ioy andthe woefayledout offight sand id doth purfine vst bold vs in chacepfromour infancy, bathgathered tt. Quicqu it. holds death paft, statis retro eft midrs tener :Whatfoeuer of our ages Sows whofoener bee bee » to whom: Fortune hath beene\ a feruant ,sand the no Time arfriend :let bim but take the accompt ofhis memory (for. wee bane atber keeper ofonr pleafurespaft) and triily examine whatit hath referued eytheyof ‘bearity and youth, orforegone delights; what it hath faned, thatir might laftofbis deare/t affections orofwhatewer elfe che amorous Spring rime gaue his art thongbes of contentment, then onvalyable yard hee fhall findethatall the ons; diffoluti thefe of out vapour other draw\no which» bis elder yedres hane;cun efor- than beany fecretsandfadfighes. Fle [hallfinde nothing remaining, but'thof rowes whichgrow vp after our faft-fpringing youth overtake it, whemitis ata rand sand ouer-topit veterly when'it beginnes to wither iin fo\much.as looking cape backsfrom-the-very inftant time,ex fromour now beingthe pooredifeafed,eo that tine credture,bathias littlefenfe ofall hisformer mi/erses andpaines; as bee, For delights, and s pleafure affed hisfare.p of bath pinion, is moft ble/t in commono hope eiprfull come,dec to whatis and s nothing' iuft is vs nde caftbebi whatfoeiier is blacke hathie: Omnia quiceeuencura fiint,in incerto tacent. Onely thofe few vanities at Swannes Tmnuft except's who haning had the grace ‘to value worldly 2 no more than their owne price ; doe, by retaining the com ortable memory of wellatted life behold death without dreadand thegraue withoutfeare and ¢m- " ia brace both,as neceffarygnides to endleffeglory. Formy felfe, this is my confolation, andall that Ican' offerto others; that the Sorrowes ofthis lifeare but of two forts : whereofthe one hath refpettto GOD; the other,tothe World. In the firft 3¢ complaine to GO'D againjt our felues, for onr offences againft him; and confeffe, Et tu iuftus esin omnibus quz veneruntfupernés; "Andthou O Lord art iuiftinall chat hath befallen: vs. £7 the fecond wee complaine toour felues againft GOD: as if bee bad done os Wrong, eitherin not gining vs- Worldly goodsand benours, anfivering our appebumble tites: orfortaking themagainefromvs baning had them;forgetting that > iuftacknowledoment of lob,the Lord hathgiuen,the Lord hath taken. To thé firft of which Saint Paul bath promifedbleffedneffe :t6 the fecond, death. Andout of doubt heis either afoole, or yagratefull to GOD, or both, that doth not acknowledgeJowmeanefoeuerhis eftatebe, that the fameis yet far greater, than that which God oweth him: or doth not acknowledge, how fharpe foener his him. af fi€tions be, that the fameare yet far leffe;than thofe which are due onto , vitiends cributa but world the of es aduerfiti the Aundifan Heathen wife mancal the tributes ofliuing : 4 wife (Chriftian man ought to know them,c~ beare them, but asthe tributes of offending. He ought to beare them manlike,cx refoluedly; not as thofe whining fouldiers do,qui gementes fequunctur impératorem. out for V5,7 Forfeeing Godwho is the Authorof all our tragedies bath written tin, been appointed vs all the parts weare to play : and: hathnot; in their diftribu partialltorbe moft mighty Princes of the world ; That gaue conto Darius the part of the. greateft Emperour , and the part o the moft miferable beggar, a beg |