ſandy bourocks at a water-ſide, when preſently a ſpate of water comes and ſpoils all their ſport, or a shower chaſes them in from their play, men are even building caſtles in the air. In very deed we are like bairns holding the water at a riverſide with their hands, they think (daft things) they hold the water, while in the mean time it runs thro' their fingers. And what ſays God of honour, riches, pleaſure, lands, fair houſes, ſums of money, even that in a word, all is done. Aſk at them that had the world once at will, and had broad lands, and what is to the fore of ſo many thouſands? Nothing but their name: And what if their name be loſt too? What has the world ⟨of⟩ them but their name? and what is that, ten or eleven letters of the A, B, C; and for their bodies, howbeit when they were living, kingdoms would not content them, and yet the clay in which the bodies are diſſolved, would not now fill a glove. I think that a true word, and a ſtrange ſpoker word, Iſa. xl. 22. "God ſits in the circle of the heavens, and all the world are as graſs-hoppers." We even creep like graſs-hoppers up and down the globe of this earth, and cry to men of the vanities of all things, while death comes like a little common-thief, without any din or feet, and plucks them away, and there is no more of them, and then they ſay, it is done. All men will ſay, it is true that I ſay: but I think to be dead ere they believe it, or be brought to hate the world. I think the world is the devil's great hairy water-net, that has taken thouſands and ſlain them, ye ſay ye are ſure of it. Then I ſay ye are a dyeted horſe for heaven.
The ſecond thing that is in the verſe, is a deſcription of Chriſt, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
