[ 298] Ministers and Physicians, of all men, not to be covetous.
LUd. Vives,* 1.1 that worthy learned man, doth wonder at some Physicians, that they could possibly be covetous, and greedy upon the world, in as much as both in their speculative study, and their practicall ministrations, they behold every day, how tickle a thing life is, how soon the breath is gon, how the strongest die in a mo∣ment, and the youngest fall on the suddain, and so by consequence, that the use of riches is uncertain, and that all worldly things are transitory: And it were to be wished,* 1.2 that many Physicians of the Soul were not sick of the same disease; they know,* 1.3 that all flesh is grasse, and the grace of it but a flower; that our breath is but a vapour,* 1.4 and our life but as a bubble. They speak much of mortality, and preach other mens funerall Sermons; yet in the midst of their studies of contemning the world, they are in love with the world, and look too much after Mammon.