pit Ofthemaxifoldmiftrieiofmax;life. iittipereogre- marrow they are incurable. And therefore as that is e(lee. tareeft. Aug. med thebef} medicine for the gout which remouerh the fit, inPfal.ioa. and that the belt falue which kee eth the incurable vlcer E°arrac ,eleane and fweet : fo thofeare efleemedbell among worldly things,thatfor theprefent fettle as medicines toeate,ourna- turall miferies, which it is altogether impoffible fully to 'healeandcure. This will better appeare ifwee confider of dome ipeciall inflances ; for what is hunger but a difeafe, whichwill confume a man in a few dales, like that called the wolfe, which if it bee not fedwith outward things, feedeth vpon thebody till it hauedef}royed it ? And what is meare but the medicine of this fickneflè, which becaufe it cannot perfeÓlly cure it, therefore it is continually applied tore - moue the fit,and to a(fwage theprefent paine ? What isthird but a ficknefhe, which would foone difpatchvs, vnlesdrinke as a phyficall potion didfor the inflant ferue for aremedie? Sowhat is watching but a naturali difeafe?and what is fleep but the medicine, that for the time helpeth it ? What is couctoufneffe but the foules feauer? and what riches, but asamedicine which fometime eafeth the fit for the prefent, though afterwards it bee more raging ? what ambition, but thehearts tympanic?andwhat honours,but an inflant re- frefhing, which for a while allaierh the griefe, though itra- ther increafeth then abateth the (welling ? What isvoluptu- oufnefic,butas the Wife man callethit,a merriemadneffe, 'Which bathfome prefent comfort, bypleafuresand delights? What is labour, but a fickneffe, which re(1 eafeth ? what landing, but an infrmicie, which fitting mitigateth ? and thisalto longvied becommeth ofamedicine adifeafe,which another kind ofdifpofition or placingof the body doth for the time tefrefh? All which though euflome make them fo familiar, that we doe not take any ferious regardofthem, yet ifwe couldpo((iblie beefreed from them but one ycere, andhue without hunger, thirft,cold, heate, labour,concu- pifcence,wewould accountthem as troublefomedifeafes, if againe they (houldfeafevponvs. 4.Se81.5. And thus man fire made miferableby finne,doth but (hew Of Joan- his Weetchedaes whilefl he frolicker it out in the fruition of thole
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