as at this very day we see they are, is to mock the great God, and abuse their immortal souls. The Christian life is quite another thing. [74] Socrat. Scholast. And lest that any should object, many do great and seemingly good actions to raise their reputation only; and others only decry pleasure, because they have not wherewithal, or know not how to take it; I shall present them with the serious sayings of aged and dying men, and those of the greatest note and rank, whose experience could not be wanting to give the truest account, how much their honours, riches, pleasures, and recreations, conduced to their satisfaction, upon a just reckoning, as well before their extreme moments as upon their dying beds, when death, that hard passage into eternity, looked them in the face. CHAPTER XXI. _Serious dying, as well as living testimonies of Men of Fame and Learning, viz._ 1. Solomon.--2. Chilon.--3. Ignatius.--4. Justin Martyr.--5. Chrysostom.--6. Charles V.--7. Cardinal Wolsey.--8. Sir Philip Sidney.--9. Secretary Walsingham.--10. Sir John Mason.--11. Sir Walter Raleigh.--12. H. Wotton.--13. Sir Christopher Hatton.--14. Lord Chancellor Bacon.--15. The great Duke of Montmorency.--16. Henry Prince of Wales.--17. Philip III. King of Spain.--18. Count Gondamor.--19. Cardinal Richlieu.--20. Cardinal Mazarine.--21. Chancellor Oxenstiern.--22. Dr. Donne.--23. Jo. Selden.--24. H. Grotius.--25. P. Salmasius.--26. Fran. Junius.--27. A. Rivetus.--28. The late Earl of Marlborough.--29. Sir Henry Vane.--30. Late Earl of Rochester.--31. One of the family of Howard.--32. Princess Elizabeth of the Rhine.--33. Commissioner Whitlock.--34. A Sister of the family of Penn.--35. My own Father.--36. Anthony Lowther of Mask.--37. Seigneur du Renti.