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Let not all this make man proud. Even this word Earth, though here used in a spiritual sense, puts him in mind that this excellent man is a mortal creature. Earth, must be earth: hot earth to cold earth: that earth which hath now a life in it,¹ to that earth which hath no life in it. Therefore I will say from the Prophet. O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. Bestow not too much pains in adorning this perishable earth, thy flesh: the earth thou must be careful of, and which God here waters from heaven with his holy dews, is thy heart, thy conscience.

Let not all this make man proud. Euen this word Earth, though here vsed in a spiritual sense, puts him in minde that this excellent man is a mortall creature. Earth, must bee earth: hot earth to colde earth: that earth which hath now a life in it,¹ to that earth which hath no life in it. Therefore I will say from the Prophet. O earth, earth, earth, heare the word of the Lord. Bestow not too much paines in adorning this perishable earth, thy flesh: the earth thou must be careful of, and which God here waters from heauen with his holy deawes, is thy heart, thy conscience.

1. 1Jere. 22. 29.Iere. 22. 29.

I could willingly steppe out a little to chide those, that neglecting Gods Earth, the Soul; fall to trimming with a curious superstition the Earths earth, clay and loam: a body of corruption painted, till it shine like a Lilly (like it in whiteness, not in humility,¹ the candour of beauty; for the Lilly grows low; Lilium conuallium, a flower of the valleys and bottoms) a little slime done over with a past-board; rottenness hid under