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A14860	A posie of spirituall flowers taken out of the garden of the holy scriptures, consisting of these sixe sorts: hearts ease, true delight, the worlds wonders, the souls solace, times complaint, the doom of sinners. Gathered for the encouragement of beginners, direction of proceeders, meditation of good hearers, consolation of true beleeuers, expectation of Sions mourners, confusion of irrepentant sinners. By George Webbe, minister of the word.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1610 (1610)	STC 25164; ESTC S102126	70,373	214

wealth Eccles 6.1 and it is reckoned now adaies the only gaine to fill their coffers with mony treasure the only paradise to looke vpon these falsely tearmed goods Sueton. in vita Calig cap. 42. I see no such solace in it Me thinkes Caligula was but a foole when he so delighted to touch and handle mony that laying great heapes of gold in a spatious place hee might tread on it bare foote and tumble it vp and downe and I pitie their ridiculous practise and toiling life who thirst so greedily and scrape together so eagerly lock vp so carefully these so truly called vncertaine riches 1. Tim. 6.17 O you mony masters and wealth admirers your riches are not as the water of life alwaies flowing but as the brooks of Arabia which are then most drie when one should most need them for water They be like vnto the Spider webs which when they waxe great are swept away with a besome either they perish from you or you from thē Why then doe you cast your eyes vpon that which is nothing for riches betaketh her selfe to her wings like an Eagle Prou. 23.5 Psal 49.17 The rich man shall take nothing away with him when hee dieth Iob 27.19 neither shall his pompe follow him The rich man sleeps and when he openeth his eyes there is nothing whiles worldly misers dreame of multiplying their wealth Luke 12.20 poore fooles death comes and makes a diuorce between them and their goods Eccles 4.15 and they must returne naked as they came and what profit then hath the rich man that he hath laboured for the winde And yet wee see there is no end of the desire of this as riches are vncertaine so likewise are they insatiable There is one alone Eccles 4.8 there is not a second which hath neither sonne nor brother yet is there no end of all his trauell neither can his eye be satisfied with riches neither doth he thinke for whom doe I trauell and defraud my soule of pleasure This also is vanitie a man may sweare it is but vanitie mad Orestes might well iudge such a miserable man much more mad that standeth thus like Tantalus in the stygean lake Horat. sat 1. lib. 1 and like the drudging Indians which toile in the golden mines but enioy none of the Ore By how much the more may wee still admire the follie or the phrensie rather of those Purchasings and possessions whose soule as if it were made of earth Isai 5.8 is euer plotting to ioyne house to house land to land and though their inheritance stretch to the plaine of Iordan Numb 1.14 yet are alwaies with vnquiet mindes stirring and striuing to inlarge their demains Doubtlesse it is but lost labour that they rise vp early and so late take rest Psal 127.2 whiles Gods beloued take their quiet sleepe for in the middest of all their wealth their soules shall be taken from them Luke 12.20 and then whose shall these things bee yea though like another Alexander a man could stretch his Demaines from the East vnto the West and from the North vnto the South yet within short space a seuen foote of ground or thereabouts will be the most that hee can claime to be his owne Yet they thinke their houses shall endure for euer Buildings Psal 49.11 euen from generation to generation and call their lands by their names 2. Sam. 18.18 therefore like to Absalom they build Pyramides to keepe their name in remembrance and glorie not a little in their costly buildings as if they should remaine for euer This also is meere vanitie and vexation of spirit Eccles 2.26 For what are all the sumptuous buildings in the world but heapes of stones peeced patched together with lime and morter which like to swallowes nests in winter do fall downe of themselues Chrysost in epist. ad Coloss and which all consuming time at last dissolueth Luke 19.44 leauing not so much as one stone vpon another I come now to the garden of Adonis variety of pleasures Pleasure which the world maketh her garden of Eden the flowers which therein grow are the vaine plants of pleasure and delight which albeit they make a glorious shew to the eyes yet is their roote bitternes their glosse vanitie and their fruite poison Beautifull obiects which delight the eyes sweete sounds that please the eares fragrant smels that affect the nose any other accidents that please the other senses what they are when they are euen at the best let him Eccles 2.3 I sought c. let him that drew the threed of delight and stretched the webbe of pleasures on the largest tenter of varietie come foorth and speake I said in mine heart Salomons probatum est Eccles 2.1 saith hee the wisest Sceptick Goe to now I will prooue thee with ioy therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things But what followed I said of laughter Ioy laughter Verse 2. thou art mad and of ioy what is it that thou doest laughter is mingled with sorrow Prou. 14. and mourning ensueth at the end of mirth Vers 4. Houses Vineyarde Gardens Orchards Vers 5. Cesternes Vers 6. Seruants Children Demaines Well he goeth on I haue made my great workes I haue built me houses I haue planted me vineyards I haue made me gardens and orchards and planted in them trees of all fruite I haue made me cesternes of water to water therewith the woods that grow with trees I haue gotten seruants and maids Vers 7. Flocks Cattell and had children borne in the house also I had great possessions of Beoues and Sheepe aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem Vers 8. Siluer Gold Treasure Musicke I haue gathered vnto mee also siluer and gold and the chief treasure of kings and prouinces I haue prouided mee mensingers and womensingers and the delights of the sonnes of men whatsoeuer mine eies desired I withheld it not from them Vers 10. I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy Then I looked on all the workes that mine hands had wrought and on the trauell that I laboured to doe Vers 11. and behold all is vanitie and vexation of spirit If thou Salomon out of thy so deare bought experience doest giue no better commendation of this world and these worldly treasures surely I see no cause why I should affect them or any of them for my selfe nor enuie them in others No no I rather pitie them that dote so much on these Heb. 11. and to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season take more paines alas then I can doe for true delight Well well I see that all things here are full of vanitie man cannot vtter it Eccles 1.8 the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the eare filled with hearing A figge then for the world I haue done with it I see nothing worthie my loue about