Prosperity attended by Fears and cares. [ 1987]
AS Winters thunder is,* 1.1 in a Proverbiall speech, held to be the Worlds won∣der, so in the extremity of Summers heat, it may chance to thunder as it were afar off; but the main claps and noise of Thunder, usually fall out in the Spring and Autumnal part of the year, when the face of the sky is at the clear∣est: So it is that fears and Jealousies,* 1.2 restlessenesse of Spirit and distractednesse of mind are usual concomitants with the prosperous conditions of men, and atten∣dant upon such as in the flourishing spring of temporall successe, and fruitfull Autumn of Wordly encrease, are lifted up on high, and puffed up with the vain conceit of their own acquired greatnesse; whilest he that is pinched with the winter of Adversity,* 1.3 and scorched with the heat of persecuting necessity, sings care away, comforts himself in the Lord his God, lives contentedly and dyes com∣fortably.