OF DEA TH.                                 39

hood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so
highly expressed as in that it shall be the last peal
to call the judgments of God upon the generations
of men, it being foretold that when Christ cometh,
** He shall not find faith upon the earth."
 

II.
OF DEATH.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark,
and as that natural fear in children is increased with
tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation
of death as the wages of sin and passage to another
world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it as a
tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious
meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity
and of superstition. You shall read in some of
the friars' books of mortification-that a man should
think with himself what the pain is if he have but
his   finger's-end   pressed   or   tortured,  and  thereby