Englands sickness, comparatively conferred with Israels Divided into two sermons, by ThoEnglands sicknes, comparatively conferred with Israels Diuided into two sermons, by Tho

1 They be transient. Meats of a washy and fluid nature, that slip through the stomach, and tarry not for concoction, do no more feed a mans health, then almost if he lived on air. They that have no other sustentation ⟨p. 73⟩to their souls, but such light, sleight, and empty food, (except they live by miracle) cannot be like David, ore rubicundo, nor like Daniel of a fresh hew, and cheerful complexion, I mean the constitution of their soul, cannot thrive. The Soul fed only with the frail circumstuous, humid, cloudy vanities of this world, is so far from remaining sound, and retaining health, that she pines, languisheth, dwindleth away, as a tree, whose life-feeding sap is dried up: So perishable are all the things of this world. ^aWilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings, they fly away like an Eagle toward heaven. Not like a tame bird that returns, nor like a Hawk, that will show where she is by her bells, but like an Eagle, whose wings thou canst neither clip nor pinion. Aut deserunt, aut deseruntur: either they forsake, or are forsaken. All their certainty is their uncertainty; and they are only stable in this, that they cannot be stable.

1 They be transient. Meates of a washy and fluid nature, that slippe through the stomacke, and tarry not for concoction, doe no more feede a mans health, then almost if he liued on ayre. They that haue no other sustentation ⟨p. 73⟩to their soules, but such light, sleight, and empty foode, (except they liue by miracle) cannot be like Dauid, ore rubicundo, nor like Daniel of a fresh hew, and chearefull complexion, I meane the constitution of their soule, cannot thriue. The Soule fed only with the fraile circumstuous, humid, cloudy vanities of this world, is so far from remaining sound, and retaining health, that she pines, languisheth, dwindleth away, as a tree, whose life-feeding sap is dried vp: So perishable are all the things of this world. ^aWilt thou set thine eyes vpon that which is not? for riches certainely make themselues wings, they flie away like an Eagle toward heauen. Not like a tame birde that returns, nor like a Hawke, that will shew where shee is by her bels, but like an Eagle, whose wings thou canst neither clip nor pinion. Aut deserunt, aut deseruntur: eyther they forsake, or are forsaken. All their certainety is their vncertainety; and they are onely stable in this, that they cannot bee stable.