156 Gerrerall direaiosrs for a tired to behold rueful[ objects without horrour. And doeft thouthinke then, bee will allow thee to feedethine eye and fancie, with their bloudy torturing andtearingone another inpieees? 2. With what brutifh favageneffe thondejei}ef# and debafedhumanities below the immanitie of beads. No bead, they fay, takes contentment in the hurting ofany o- ther , except in the cafe of hunger or anger, They fatisfie their appetites and rage fometimes with crueltie and blond; but theireyes and fancies never. 3. That menbloudily mica ded toward harmelefl'e beads, difcover our naturalll pro- penfon to crueltie, which is further manifeded. r. by the multitudes many times, thirfting& thruding after the curio- fity ofwofull fpeìacles,and theirimpatiettcy totarry thebe- holding of the lamentable executions of guilty perlons. 2. And in that they take nodelight to fee wilde beads play, and fportingly to make much one ofanother; but are well pleafed to fee them bloudily encounter, mangle and enter- teare eachother. Thefefeeds then, or rather weeds ofcruel- tie, originally planted in their hearts by the curfe of Nature, are too ranke and luxuriant of themfelves; they neede no manuring withbarbarous inhumanities, and fports ofblond. ;. That Rulewhich Divines giveabout recreation, wee rmuft not make Gods Iudgements andpunifhments of finne, either uponman or bead, the matter andobje6 ofthem. Nombeft Divines hold, that enmitie amongft themfelves, was a fruit ofour rebellionagain! God, and more generali judgement infi&ed uponthecreature after the fall.Whick miferie com- wingupon them by our meanes, fhould rather breake our heartsand make thembleede, then minider matterofglory- ing inour fltame,andvexing thofe very vexations, whichour impietybathput upon them. Alas,finfull man,what an heart haft thou, that cand takedelight in the cruell tormenting of adumbe creature ! Is it not toomuch for thee to beholdwith drie eies that fearefull brand, which only thy finne bath im- preft upon it; but thou mud barbaroufly alto preffe its cp. prefiions, and make thy felfe merrywith thebleedingmife- ries of that podre harnaelefie thing, which in its kind is much
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