What he is like
Vain man would be wise, though he be born like a wilde asses colt, Job 11.12.
He commeth forth like a flower, and is cut down; he flieth also like a shadow and con∣tinueth not, Iob 14.10
When we are chasti∣sed for sin, our beau∣ty consumeth away like a moth; surely every man is vanity, Psal. 39.11.
God carrieth us a∣way as with a floud, and we are asleep in the morning, and are as the grasse that groweth up Ps. 90.5.
Man is like to vani∣ty, his dayes are like the shadow that passeth away, Ps. 144.34.
A mans vaine life he spends as a shadow, Eccles. 7.12.
All flesh is grasse, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grasse, &c. 1 Pet. 1.24.
Man being in honour