Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That all worldfy things are 6tet meere vanitiu, 2 83 ielbelt. For *omen are delighted eaten with fetters; fo they bee ofgold, uett her doe they eflcome them hurthens, fo they bee preti. otu; nor thinks them bonds, fo that their treaj ure'hine in them. Tea, they arede/cghtedwiththeirlboundi, that they may thrult gold through their caret, and hang pearles andieweltat them : andyet thefejewels hark their waight, and filch clothing their told; they fweat with the burthen of their iewels, and are chill with cold in their thin gibes; andyet the opinion of their price hclpeth all; and that tbhich natureabhorreth, cocteraufneffe cam- menderh and extolleth, Laflly, what worth and excellencie is in worldly plea- 6.Seí?.4. fures, more then opinion imparts vnto them ?For doe wee That there is no not fce,that that which to one is magnified as his chiefe de- exceUtndein light,is unto another loathforne and tedious? and contrari- orldlyPwhat wife, that which is accounted this mans hell, is efleemed fopinionit,paru an,nthersparadife ?one thinketh hunting and hawking his vnto them. worldlyhappinefle, another accounteth it a tedious toylc ; one fwalloweth drinke as pleating neâar, and the more hee drinketh, the more hee deßreth; another when his thirfl is quenched,receiueth it as a medicine, or loathfome potion; one pam ere.h his bodie, another abhorreth gluttonie, as a comberfome vice; one taketh his chiefe felicitie in masking and reuelling,in carding, dicing, and dancing; another ha- tech them as idle and effeminate fports,and placeth his hap- pinefl'e in martiall exercifes,which the other fleeth as pain - full and dangerous. In a word, eucry man bath his feuerall delight wherein he taketh his chiefe contentment; and this . contentment he hath not from any worth or excellencie in the thing it Idle, for then it would giue voto all others the fame delight but from his owne opinion and conceit. And hence it is that his opinion changing, his pleafures alfo change, infomuch as wee may often obferue that thole de- lights which haue been heretofore his chicle felicitie, upon the alteration of his conceit, become loathfome and vn- plcafa,at. And as a man diflempercd with a burning ague, thinketh wholefome drinkes bitter and loathfome; and thole which are cart and fuwre, pleafant and well rellifhed 5 which againebeing reflored to his health, bee much difla- fleth /