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 groaning in child-birth with pain and vanity, becauſe of our ſin; all the creation are ſickened becauſe of ſin; becauſe of our ſin, vanity came on the Sun, Moon, and other creatures, they ſigh under this, and pray their kind of malliſon, and a woe to man, for ſin has made us all miſerable. The heavens, that are the greateſt part of the web of the world, wax old as a garment. The prophet ſays, they are like an old clout. The water ſaith, let me drown ſinners, they have ſinned againſt my Lord; the fire ſaith, let me burn them, let me burn Sodom, for they have ſinned againſt my Lord. All things have loſt their glory that they got in their firſt creation; Jeſus faith, all things are gone wrong, and quite out of order; and man, fallen from his Lord: and he did even with the world, as a pilot once with an inattentive man at the rudder, ſteering the ſhip on a ſand-bank, he ſtept in quickly and turned her incontinent, or elſe all would have gone to confuſion. So our Lord ſtepped in, when the great ſhip of the world was running on a ſand-bank, the ſun and moon looked ſad-like, and ſaid they would ſerve us. Our Lord renewed them by his death, and made them all laugh on the elect again, and gave them all a ſuit of new clothes. Drunkard, Chriſt gave his bleſſing to the wine that ye ſpue on the walls. Ye that diſhonour your Maker with your vain apparel, ye know not what it coſt Chriſt; our Lord bled to buy a right of them that ye abuſe in vanity. All that ſet the world in their hearts, where the Lord ſhould be, forget that Chriſt bought the world to be their ſervant, and not to be as their darling and wife, that lies in their boſom. Ye that make the earth and the broad acres of it your ſoul's portion, ſo as ye deſire no more but land, yet forget Chriſt that