loke downe into his owne thoughts, he should say in the mids of it, his heart is heauie.
And shall yet this life, so short, so troublesome, so without pleasure, so fast holde vs bounde with blinde desire, that we neither long for nor looke af∣ter Iesu Christ, who liueth euer, and hath cast forth of his presence all sinne, and sorrowe, and deathe it selfe?
Could the Prophet so shewe him in immortalitie & all his elect with him in the glorie of his father, that he bewayled the vanitie of his owne life, yea though it should haue lasted as long as the heauens, and while the Sunne and Moone endureth, though he should haue abiden king of Israel, was al this vn∣to him as a shadowe or an idle dreame in compari∣son of Christe who is for euer, and whose yeares shall neuer faile? And shall we think wee haue the spirite of God or any portion in Iesu Christe, who in his euerlasting continuaunce, cannot finde such pleasure as in our visard of vaine life, that souden∣ly appeareth and is no more? who in the glorie of his presence, and maiestie of his Father, can see no such delighte, as in carding, diceing, daunsing, and such like works of reproche and shame, and horri∣rible confusion?
Nay, I will tell you (dearelie beloued,) and I will tell you true: your owne eyes and eares shall beare witnesse with mee that I lie not.
These men that thus serue in the vile bondage of these pastimes, they carrie with them, the badge and cognisaunce of another maister then of