15o Ofthemiferiesaccompanying?borldly things. fently loathfome ; vnleffe our appetite be fharpened by the fowre fawce ofinterchanged miferies; that vntill wehaue enough ofthem, we are troubled with our.owne concupi- fcence, but no fooner hauewe fatietie; but there followeth tedious loathing ; and feldotne or neuer is there fuch a i.ufl equipoifc and proportion, but that we are vexed with too much or with too little. Finally, we find that cxtremitie of ioy is an heauie burthen, ofwhich the heart feeketh no leffe Gen.4 ç.t4.and tocafe it idle, by fending out whole floodsofteares, then p:}9. when the waightofgricfeliethheauieonit: yeathat being exccffîue it bringeth, as a morepleafant, fo all() more fudden death,then the greatefi extremitieofbitter forrow; theheart lettingout thevi tall fpirits,whilefhit -toomuch inlargethand opencthit felfe, to ktinpleafureand delight. .Seth. 3 But the miferies which accompany thefe worldly things Thatworldly will better appeare, if wee more fpecially confider thofe things arena which are incident vnto them, in refpe6t oftheir getting, gotten nahout keeping and lofing them : for they are gotten with labour, great labour.. kept withcare and feare, and loll with griefeand forrovv; or ódgnútur rabo_ as it is in otherwords exprel%d ; painesbegetteth them,care re, nuttiantur nurfeth them, and forrow accompanieth them to theirfune. curls, da fepeli- rais. For fiat, howfoeuer thefe worldly things are of fmall Mt" "re. worth,,yet they areattained vnto with no fitall labour;nei- ther is thereally good thing in the earth tobe bought and purchafed without the coineofcontinuall paines, and labo- rions induflrie : fo the Wife manfaith, that all thingsare fall Eccleforsa. and - oflbour, and that God hath giuen to the fonnesofinen to 3.9.10. humble them i.thereby, great trauailewith little profit. Nei- ther is it finali paineswhich men take in purfuingofthefe va. nities, but foextreme andgreat, that euen they commonly eonfitme and tire them : for fo theProphet faith, Behold, ú it not oft/acLordofhafts, that thepeople Jhall labour in the verle fire? the people Iliaii ownwearie themfibres for very vanitie? And finely who feethnot that worldlymendoe take much morepines inattaining untoearthly trifles, then Godsfer- uants take for heauenly treafures ? and that with more eafe wemight furnifti ourkites through Godsble:ling, with all fpirituall,i notifying and fauing graces, then witha (mall competencie Ihb,a.t;.
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