Of the manifold miferierofgaanl l fe. 3 23 chore things whereinhe chiefly delighteth : and beingficke fovterat; ee of innumerable maladies, he is perferlly curedof none, but whitb man ftno onely is cared for the time by often changing his miferies 4e7h iu wotid- with one another, hungring and cati ng, andalter eating, a.I7rbiögr. gaine hungring; interchanging waking with flceping, and fleepingwith waking, like a fickeman turningfrom fide to fide, to find Come fhort reprivall of his paine; or asifone fhould !capeoutofthe fcorchingheat,into the chilling cold, and often interchange theone for theother, accoï,tingboth his rcfrefhing, whereas in truth they are both his torment. For fo is mannaturally befotted on there earthly trifles, if he be ignorant of true happineffe, and hath not fixed his heart on Godand heauenly things,that he laboureth to haue them in abundance, which hehathno foonerattained vnto,but he bathalto the vCuall companion thereof, gluttingfatietie and loathfome wearines : and no Comer is he thus cloyed, but prefently he feeketh torefrefh his dulled appetitewith vatic- tie and change ; one while defiring motion, and another whilerefl,now afedlingmirth,and foone after folemnegra. uitie; in the night wifhing for day, and in the day for night, in heate for cold,and in cold forheate; eating and falling, waking and fleeping, dreffng and vndreffing, fitting and (landing, walking and lying, with filch often iteration, as might well caufe a loathing latietie, when as he is aiwaics in the fame motion,like the horfe in the mill, and (as the Wife man fpeaketh)feeth nenew rhinounder the Sunne. EecleGaflicus Butbetides thereinherent euils which make there worldly 1'9. vanities fomuch defired, in themfelues diflaflcfull, theyate 4 Sty.;. conioyned and mingled with innumerable other miferies oftheadboen¢ whichadherevnto them ; the which fo farre exceed innuts- indent' áwheears 7 ber, gnantitie and qualitie, all the earthly delights and corn- maar life, forts which we enioy, as the brarnblcs therof, or the field weeds, the garden flowers. For who feeth not, yeawho can- not fpeake vpon his owns feeling experieece, that no day paflethwithout a dumber ofmiferies attending on it,whilefl either the euitswefearedofa!l 'Tonvs, or the good things we hoped for fails vs, and deceiue our expeclarion, or the comforts which weprefentlyenjoy ate either indeed loll, or at
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