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england_n	alexander_n	edward_n	king_n	2,766	5	5.1318	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20202	The plaine mans path-way to heauen Wherein euery man may cleerely see, whether he shall be saued or damned. Set forth dialogue-wise, for the better vnderstanding of the simple: By Arthur Dent, preacher of the vvord of God at South-Shoobery in Essex. Corrected and amended: vvith a table of all the principall matters; and three prayers necessarie to be vsed in priuate families thereunto added.; Plaine mans path-way to heaven	Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.	1607 (1607)	STC 6629; ESTC S113573	201,787	436

cause why men should be so giuen to this world For they must leaue it when they haue done all that they can As we say To day a man to morrow none And as the Apostle saith We brought nothing into this world and it is certaine we shall carry nothing out We must all die we know not how soone why therfore should men set their hearts vpon such vncertaine and deceiuable thinges for all things in this world are more light then a feather more brittle then glasse more fléeting then a shadow more vanishing then smoke more vnconstant then the winde Doubtlesse saith the Prophet Dauid Man walketh in a shadow and disquieteth himselfe in vaine he heapeth vp riches and cannot tell who shall gather them Psalm 39. 6. I wonder therefore that these Moules and Muck-wormes of this earth should so minde these shadowish things and so dote on them as they doe If they were not altogether hardned and blinded by the diuell they would not be so néerely knit to the clod and the peny as they are thinking and alwaies imagining that there is no happinesse but in these things which are but dung and drosse and at last they will giue vs the slip when we thinke our selues most sure of them The wise king who had the greatest experience of these things that euer man had for hée enioyed whatsoeuer this world could affoord vpward and downeward backward and forward yet could find nothing in them but vanity and vexation of spirit Moreouer he flatly auoucheth that all these things riches wealth honour pleasures and treasures will most notably deceiue vs in the end giue vs the slip and be gone For he compareth riches and all the glorie of this world to an Eagle or Hawke which a man holdeth vpon his fist stroketh her maketh of her taketh great delight and pleasure in her and saith he wil not take ten pounds for her yet al on the sudden she taketh her flight and flieth vp into the ayre and he neuer séeth her more nor shée him The wordes of the holy Ghost are these Wilt thou cause thine eyes to flie after them meaning riches Thou mayst but they will not be found For they will make themselues wings like to the Eagle which flieth vp to Heauen From thence wée may learne that though wée set our hearts neuer so much on any thing here below yet at the last it shall be taken from vs or we from it Therefore all worldly men doe but weaue the Spiders webbe and may fitly be compared to the silly Spider who toileth her selfe and laboureth all the weeke long to finish vp her webbe that she may lodge her selfe in it as in her owne house and frée hold But alas at the weeks end a Maid in a moment with one brush of a broome dispessesseth her of her in heritance which she had purchased with great labour and much adoe Euen so when the men of this world haue with much care and trauell purchased great lands and reuenewes and gathered all that they can yet on the sudden death with one stroke of his direfull dart will make them giue vp the ghost and then where are they It was pretily therefore said of a man in the light of nature No man hath euer liued so happily in this life but in his life-time many things haue befallen him for the which he hath wished rather to die then to liue And assuredly I thinke there was neuer any man liued any one day vpon the fare of this earth but some griefe or other either did or iustly might inuade his minde ere night either in the temptations of the world the flesh or the diuell or in regard of soule body goods or name in regard of wife children friends or neighbours in regard of dangers to Prince Estate church or Common wealth in regard of casualties and losses by water by fire by Sea or by land What a life therefore is this that hath not one good day in it Who would desire to dwell long in it For it lieth open euery day to manifold miseries dangers losses casualties reproaches shame infamie pouerty sicknesse diseases collickes agues tooth-ache head-ache backe-ache bone-ache and a thousand calamities Phila. You haue very well described vnto vs the vanitie of this life and that no day is free from one sorrow or other one griefe or other Which thing our Lord Iesus ratifieth in the reason which he bringeth why men should not distrustfully care for to morow For saith he Sufficient vnto the day is the euill thereof Or as some reade it The day hath enough with his owne griefe Where in hee doth plainely shew that euery day hath his sorrow his euill his griefe and his thwart But I pray you proceed further in this point Theol. This I say further that when men haue swinked and sweat carked cared moiled and turmoiled drudged droiled by night by day by sea and by land with much care and sorrow much labour and griefe to rake together the things of this life yet at last all will away again and we must end where we began For as Iob said Naked wee came into the world and naked we must goe out Iob 1. For euen as a wind-mill beateth it selfe maketh a great noise whisleth and whisketh about from day to day all the yéere long yet at the yéeres end standeth still where it begun being not mooued one foot backward or forward so when men haue blustered and blowen all that they can haue euen run themselues out of breath to scrape vp the commodities of the earth yet at last they must spite of their beards end where they began end with nothing as they began with nothing end with a winding shéet as they began with swadling clouts For what is become of the greatest Monarchs Kings Princes Potentates and Magnificoes that euer the world had Where is Cyrus Darius Xerxes Alexander Caesar Pompey Scipio and Hanniball Where are the valiant Henries and noble Edwards of England Are they not all gone downe to the house of obliuion Are they not all returned to their dust and all their thoughts perish Though they were as Gods yet haue they died as a man are fallen like others Who now careth for them who talketh of them who feareth them who regardeth them do not beggars tread vpon them Yet while they liued they were the Lords of the world they were as terrible as Lions fearefull to all men full of pompe and glorie dignitie and maiestie They plowed vp all things they bare all before them and who but they But now they haue giuen vp the ghost and are as Iob saith gone downe to the house appointed for all the liuing Their pompe is descended with them and all their glorie is buried in the ashes They are now couered vnder a cled cast out into a vault made companions to toades and the wormes do eat them and what is become of their soules is most of all to