THE EXPLICATION.
IN this Parable, it is elegantly described how the ship∣wrack of Fortunes falls upon Prodigalls, & on such as are carelesse of their Estates; for Debt & Diminution of stock, comes upon them at first by insensible degrees, with soft-si∣lent paces, like a Traveller, and is hardly perceived; but soone after necessity invades him like an armed man, that is, with so strong and potent an arme, as there is no more resi∣stance to be made; so it was said by the Ancients, that of all things necessity was the strongest. Wherefore we must pre∣vent the Travellour; and be well provided against the ar∣med Man.