APHORISM IX.

THE WORLDLING'S FEAR.

Leighton.

It is a fearful thing when a man and all his hopes die together. Thus saith Solomon of the wicked, Prov. xi, 7, When he dieth, then die his hopes; (many of them before, but at the utmost then,* all of them;) but the righteous hath hope in his death. Prov. xiv, 32.