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This verse is as it were a dialogue betwixt the flesh and the spirit, as the two counsellors: the worst is first, and the flesh speaketh proudly, but the spirit comes in burdened with that which hath been spoken. The flesh goeth laughing and singing to hell, but the spirit casteth rubs in his way, & puts him in mind of judgement, that for all these things: now ends rejoice, and here comes in but: if this but were not, we might rejoice still, if young men must for all the sports of youth, what then shall old men do, being as they are now? surely if Solomon lived to see our old men live now, as here he saith of young men, so high as sin rageth, yet vengeance fits above it, as high as high Babel. Me thinks I see a sword hang in the air by a twine thread, and all the sons of men labour to burst it in sunder. There is a place in hell where the covetous judge sitteth, the greedy Lawyer, the griping Landlord, the careless Bishop, the lusty youth, the wanton dames, the thief, the robbers of the common-wealth, they are punished in this life because they ever sin as long as they could, while mercy was offered unto them, therefore because they would not be washed, they shall be drowned. Now put together rejoice and remember: thou hast learned to be merry, now learn to be wise: now therefore turn over a new leaf, and take a new lesson: for now Solomon mocketh not as he did before, therefore a check to thy ruffs, a check to thy cuffs, a check to thy robes, a check to thy gold, a check to your riches, a check to your beauty, a check to your muck, a check to your graves: woe from above, woe from below, woe to all the strings of vanity: doest thou not now marvel that thou hadst not a feeling of sin? for now thou seest Solomon saith true, thine own heart can tell that it is wicked, but it cannot amend: therefore it is high time to amend: as Nathan cometh to David after Beelzebub, so cometh accusing conscience after sin. Me thinks that every one should have a feeling of sin, though this day be like yesterday, ⟨image 5⟩and to morrow like to day, yet one day will come for all, and then woe, woe, woe, and nothing but darkness: and though God came; not to Adam until the evening, yet he came: although the fire came:

This verse is as it were a dialogue betwixt the flesh and the spirite, as the two counsellers: the woorst is first, and the flesh speaketh proudlie, but the spirit comes in burdened with that which hath beenespoken. The flesh goeth laughing and singing to hel, but the spirit casteth rubs in his way, & puts him in minde of iudgement, that for all these thinges: now endes reioyce, and heere comes in but: if this but were not, wee might reioyce still, if young men must for all the sportes of youth, what then shall olde men doe, being as they are nowe? surelie if Salomon liued to see our olde men liue now, as heere he saith of young men, so high as sinne rageth, yet vengeaunce fits aboue it, as high as high Babell. Mee thinkes I see a sword hang in the ayre by a twine threed, and all the sonnes of men labour to burst it in sunder. There is a place in hell where the couetous iudge sitteth, the greedie Lawyer, the griping Landlord, the carelesse Bishop, the lusty youth, the wanton dames, the theefe, the robbers of the common-wealth, they are punished in this life because they euer sin as long as they could, while mercie was offered vnto them, therefore because they would not bee washed, they shall bee drowned. Now put togither reioice and remember: thou hast learned to be mery, nowe learne to bee wise: now therefore turne ouer a new leafe, and take a new lesson: for now Salomon mocketh not as he did before, therefore a checke to thy ruffes, a checke to thy cuffes, a checke to thy robes, a checke to thy gold, a checke to your riches, a checke to your beauty, a checke to your mucke, a checke to your graues: wo from aboue, wo from belowe, wo to all the stringes of vanitie: doest thou not nowe maruell that thou hadst not a feeling of sinne? for nowe thou seest Salomon saith true, thine owne heart can tell that it is wicked, but it cannot amende: therefore it is high time to amend: as Nathan commeth to Dauid after Belzebub, so commeth accusing conscience after sinne. Me thinks that euerie one should haue a feeling of sinne, though this day bee like yesterdaie,