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4. Meditate upon the uncertainty of ¹all sublunary comforts. Creature-delights have their flux, and reflux, How oft doth the Sun of worldly pomp and grandeur go down at noon. Xerxes wa• ⟨p. 47⟩forced to fly away in a small vessel, who but a little before wanted Sea-room for his Navy. We say every thing is mutable; but who meditates upon it? The world is resembled to a Sea of glass mingled with fire, Rev. 15. 2. Glass is slippery, it hath no sure footing: and Glass mingled with fire is subject to consume. All creatures are fluid and uncertain, and cannot be made to fix. What is become of the glory of Athens, the pomp of Troy? 1 John 2. 17. The world passeth ^*away: It slides away as a Ship in full sail. How quickly doth the Scene alter? and a low ebb succeed an high tide? There's no trusting to any thing. Health may be turned to sickness; friends may die; riches may take wings. We are ever upon the Tropics. The serious meditation of this, would 1. Keep us from being so deceived by the world. We are ready to set up our rest here, Psal. 49. 11. Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever. We are apt to think that our Mountain stands strong. We dream of an earthly Eternity. Alas, did we meditate how casual and uncertain these things are^*, we should not be so often deluded. Have ⟨p. 48⟩not we seen great disappointments; and where we have thought to suck honey, there we have drunk wormwood?

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