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A57182 A discourse of the vanity of the creature by a person of honour. Radnor, John Robartes, Earl of, 1606-1685. 1673 (1673) Wing R131; ESTC R17178 11,133 32

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things no other than of Vanities and that by Gradation Vanity of vanities The Assertor gives us the certainty of the Assertion 't is not the saying of an ignorant man nor is it said probably or problematically but positively saith the Preacher said he who had Wisdom above all Mortals But this is not all says he who is the Wisdom of God by the Pen of Solomon who made all Mortals so as this truth is not to be doubted being uttered by the God of Truth Vanity of vanities Vanity of vanities saith the Preacher From the Duplication we may draw the importance of the truth as well as the certainty thereof and therefore we should be doubly diligent to awaken our hearts to quell the inordinate love of earthly things to see the emptiness and nothingness of them lively expressed in the twice vanity thereof to remember to abstain from those fleshly vanities which fight against the soul to double the files of our thoughts and fortifie our imaginations against being carried away with the trifles and dotages of this World with the empty Pomps and petty Pageantry of Wax and Parchment of the fading breaths and false acclamations of men or with fleeting things which sometimes attend a wasting life the necessary Ushers to a certain death to know we are here as strangers and pilgrims travellers not dwellers such as death will draw from our houses or adversity them from us to winde up our bottom upon stable things to see the difference between counterfeit Ware and true Riches between worldly Pelf and everlasting Righteousness between the deceit of appearances and reality of good between walking in a vain show and waiting for a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwells Righteousness From the Universality of the Assertion we may learn that it is not one or two particular things which are Vanity the whole System of worldly things the Creature it self is subject to vanity and groaneth under the bondage of corruption So that it is not this or that but all is vanity and not singly so but in gradation Vanity of vanities Whatsoever good appears is momentany and unsatisfactory whence it is that humane desires hunt after varieties inidentities and please themselves with somewhat new though there be nothing so but what number makes Pliny speaks of some Inhabitants in Asia who not wearied with adversity but surfeited with prosperities of this life tired with the repetition of earthly things cast themselves into the Sea to avoid an irksom life which doing the same things so many thousand times over and over make that to them intolerable which most of Mankind do esteem desirable Where then should we place our thoughts seeing nothing is to be found here but Vanity of vanities but on that City which has foundation whose builder and maker is God That leaving the pursuit of these earthly trifles we may be mortified not only toward all evil but toward all earthly things that so ascending in our thoughts and aspiring by our endeavours to surmount this World and to get the ascendant as to our appetites towards these transitory things we may arrive at that blessed Region where there is no Time but Eternity no Accurant but Felicity no Change but Perpetuity and where there is no Vanity but a blessed Stability where an infinite good shall everlastingly entertain such as have wisely judged and righteously walked in this World with those Joys that are at his right hand for evermore which neither eye hath seen nor ear heard nor the heart of man hath conceived So as they that have walked as they should in this Valley of Tears shall be there transfigured and transplanted into eternal Glory Which God of his infinite mercy grant us all for his Son Jesus Christ's sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Glory and Honour Amen FINIS