and the whole course of this present age to represent it
unto thyself, and to fix thy thoughts upon the sudden change
of every particular object. How short the time is from
the generation of anything, unto the dissolution of the same;
but how immense and infinite both that which was before
the generation, and that which after the generation of it shall be.
All things that thou seest, will soon be perished, and they
that see their corruptions, will soon vanish away themselves.
He that dieth a hundred years old, and he that dieth young,
shall come all to one.
XXXII. What are their minds and understandings; and what the things
that they apply themselves unto: what do they love, and what do they
hate for? Fancy to thyself the estate of their souls openly to be seen.
When they think they hurt them shrewdly, whom they speak ill of; and when
they think they do them a very good turn, whom they commend and extol:
O how full are they then of conceit, and opinion!