Extream folly, not to be mindful of Death. [ 546]
IF a Travailer comming into an Inne having but a penny in his purse,* 1.1 should sit down, and call for all sorts of provision and dainties, till such time as the recko∣ning were inflamed to such a height, as his slender stock could no wayes compass; what would be thought of such a man? Surely in the judgement of all men, he would be esteemed a fool or a mad-man; and such are most of us whilst we are in this world; How foolish and mad is the practice of every man that liveth in his sins, bathing himself in the pleasures of this world,* 1.2 never thinking how he shall meet God at the last day of judgement, and there come to an account of all his doings? That which sounded alwaies in S. Hieroms ears, ought to ring in the ear of every good Christian, Surgite mo••tui, venite ad judicium. In all thy doings remember thy end, and so thou shalt never do amiss.