In dust and ashes.
I haue but one staire more, downe from both Text and Pulpit; and it is a very low one; Dust and ashes.
An adorned body is not the vehicle of an humbled soule. Iob, before his affliction was not poore. Doubtlesse, hee had his Wardrobe, his change and choise of garments. Yet now, how doth his humbled soule contemne them! as if hee threw away his vesture, saying; I haue worne thee for pompe, giuen countenance to a silken case; I quite mistooke thy nature, get thee from mee, I am weary of thy seruice, thou hast made mee honourable with men, thou canst get mee no estimation before the Lord. Repentance giues a farewell, not onely to wonted delights, but e∣uen to naturall refreshings. Iob lies not on a bed of Roses and Violets, as did the Sybarites; nor