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 Meditatio7is. 6i

muft we needs walk in darkneire and le no light, yet then mult we trull in the Lord, and ftay vpon our God, and when the morning (which is the appointed time) is come, the Sun of righteoufnes will arife with healing in his wings.

LI.

'' I ^HE eyes and the eares are the inlets or doores of -*- the foule, through which innumerable objefts enter, yet is not that fpacious roome filled, neither doth it euer fay it is enough, but like the daughters of the horfleach, crys giue, giue!'^ and which is moll Itrang, the more it receius, the more empty it finds it felf, and fees an impoffibility, euer to be filled, but bv him in whom all fullnes dwells.

LII.

T TAD not the wifell of men taught vs this lefion, -*- -*■ that all is vanity and vexation of fpirit, yet our owne experience would foon haue fpeld it out; for what do we obtaine of all thefe things, but it is with labour and vexation ? when we injoy them it is with vanity and vexation; and, if w^e loofe them, then they are lelle then vanity and more then vexation: fo that we haue good caufe often to repeat that fentence, vanity of vanityes, vanity of vanityes, all is vanity.

��* "The horseleach hath two daughters, crying. Give, give." — Pkov, XXX. 15.

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