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These are the uncertainties, and mutabilities of all worldly honours: mighty Potentates of the world have been ludibria fortunae, ¹the very scorn of fortune: all the choice things that the world affords, are as water in broken cisterns, not having any spring to feed them, & the cistern being broken will let out all; they are but as a thing without a foundation, which cannot stand long. That is observable that we find in the Epistle to the Hebrews, chap. 11. v. 10. It is said of Abraham, that he sought a city that had a foundation: noting thereby, that all other cities ⟨p. 66⟩though never so glorious, and by consequence all other worldly things, have no foundation to uphold them. Hence Plutarch tells us that the ancient nobility of Rome and Arcadia, ²were accustomed to wear moons upon their shoes,³ that they might have always the mutability of their prosperity before their eyes. That which Saint Paul says of riches, 1 Tim. 6. 17. is true of all worldly things; Trust not in uncertain riches: so it may be said, trust not in uncertain honours, nor in uncertain pleasures.

These are the uncertainties, and mutabilities of all worldly honours: mighty Potentates of the world have beene ludibria fortunae, ¹the very scorne of fortune: all the choise things that the world affords, are as water in broken cisternes, not having any spring to feede them, & the cisterne being brokē will let out all; they are but as a thing without a foundation, which cannot stand long. That is observable that we find in the Epistle to the Hebrewes, chap. 11. v. 10. It is said of Abraham, that he sought a citie that had a foundation: noting thereby, that all other cities ⟨p. 66⟩though never so glorious, and by consequence all other worldly things, have no foundation to uphold them. Hence Plutarch tells us that the ancient nobility of Rome and Arcadia,