[ 1532] How the Vanity of Worldly things may be easily discerned.
A Man that walketh in a great mist,* 1.1 or some thick Fog, cannot perceive whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth; but if he go up to the top of some high hill, or Mountain next adjoyning, he shall soon discern, that it is no∣thing but a vapour, arising from the cranies a••d intrails of the Earth, thick∣ning in the clouds and vanishing in the ayre:* 1.2 And thus it is, that so long as the Earthly minds of covetous worldly men, are overshadowed with the dark∣nesse of Ignorance, and thickned with a greedy desire of wordly things, they cannot see, perceive, nor understand the things that are of God, nor the Vanity and frail••y of the Creature; but if they would take a turn or two on the top of Mount Sion, and be Lifted up in their minds with holy Meditation, they would soon perceive, that all things of this life are sublunary, and proceed from the bowels of the Earth, and that all the glory of the World must passe away and come to nothing.