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Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift thine eyes Westward, and Northward & Southward, and Eastward, and behold it with thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Get thee vp into the top of Pisgah, and lift thine eies Westward, and Northward & Southward, and Eastward, and beholde it with thine eies, for thou shalt not goe ouer this Iordaine.

Now Moses is in his prospect, as David was in his Tower. Here he must prepare him self to die, while he is looking upon the ⟨p. 913⟩land which so long he hath been in coming to. Who would not but have grieved at this? That after so long as forty years travail in hope to possess it, should now in the end be content with a sight of it, and so vanish away. Yet Moses (for all this) murmureth not, but like Job taketh it patiently. And as he was upon the Mount where GOD vanished: So here he is upon the Mount and vanisheth away himself: as it appeareth in Deuteronomy the thirty four Chapter, and the sixth verse, no man knoweth his tomb, nor which way he is gone, lest the Jews should have worshipped his Relics as the Papists do theirs. So good Rulers are taken away in a time when death is least suspected. As Lot was taken away before the people of Sodom knew as is showed in the nineteenth Chapter of Genesis, and the tenth verse: So we see that when our time is come, and our glass run out: that neither our riches, nor our wits, nor our friends, nor any thing that we have in this world, can carry us no further. No, no more than Moses could go over this Jordan.

Now Moses is in his prospect, as Dauid was in his Tower. Here he must prepare him selfe to die, while hee is looking vpon the ⟨p. 913⟩land which so long he hath beene in comming to. Who woulde not but haue grieued at this? That after so long as fourtie yeares trauaile in hope to possesse it, should now in the ende bee content with a sight of it, and so vanish awaie. Yet Moses (for all this) murmureth not, but like Iob taketh it patiently. And as hee was vpon the Mount where GOD vanished: So heere hee is vpon the Mount and vanisheth away himselfe: as it appeareth in Deuteronomie the thirtie foure Chapter, and the sixth verse, no man knoweth his tombe, nor which way hee is gone, lest the Iewes shoulde haue worshipped his Reliques as the Papistes doe theirs. So good Rulers are taken awaie in a time when death is least suspected. As Lot was taken away before the people of Sodom knew as is shewed in the nineteenth Chapter of Genesis, and the tenth verse: So wee see that when our time is come, and our glasse run out: that neither our riches, nor our wits, nor our friends, nor any thing that wee haue in this world, can cary vs no further. No, no more than Moses coulde goe ouer this Iordaine.