Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Of the manifoldmiferietafm:sr:J fe. Std comforted and refrefhed, as though they were let at libertie, and think a little bettering of their (cant & hungrie meales, a great fcafl and daintie banquet : whereas thofe who have bin brought vp in great plentic and full hbertic,forow at the others ioyes, and are tormented with Briefe, in the middefi oftheir wretched comforts. Sobecaufe we are from the firfi moment ofour birth brought vp and inured to this node of miferies; becaufe we had out firli being,and breeding in this wretched prifon of the wotld, we are readie to loue and re- ioyce in our little inlarged imprifonment, as though wee had attained vnto perfe& libertie, and to account our Ieafi miferies our greatefl happinefiè : whereas ifcither with our firfi parents we had euer tailed ofthe ioies ofParadife,or had but only in vifion with the blefked Apofile, the leali glimpfe ofour heauenly glorie, the worlds greatefl libertie would appeare to be a thraldome, and his moil delicious fweets would be as bitter as gall, and as loathfome to our tafle as the infufion ofwormewood,yea in troth as the chymicall ex_ traélion ofColyquintida. But the miferies of the world and worldlythings may be 4.Sd?. 2. more clearely (hewed, by confidering the teflimonies of The miferies of thofe who haue_fpoken upon their owne experience, and as mnrfril) things they haue been guided by Gods Spirit, which can neither ihewedyter7i- deceiue nor be deceived; asalfo by infrfling in Tome fpeciall "e5° inflances ofthefe miferies, wherewith all men generally are acquainted. The holy Patriarch Jacob fpeaking as he had found by lamentable experience, telleth Pharaoh, that the Genef. dates ofhir life had been fewand end : and this 'I °binlargeth to 47.9 all the fonnesofinen, "laying, that man *hi, is borne ofawo_ lob 14.T. man, is of Jhèrt continuance and fullof trouble : yea the Wife man himfelfe who had taken the deependraught in the gol- den cup of the worlds profperitie, euen after he had glutted Ecdefs,r ;.ï;. himfelfe with voluptuouspleafures;concludeth that all is not only vanitie, but an vexation of fpirit, and that all mans dales arc forrowes, and his trauaile griefe, fo that his heart can take norefi, no not in the night,which time is purpofely deflinated to ref' and quietneffe:and elfewhere he aflïrmeth, that the 'vilify of man it great upon him. With which hea- Ecdef.8.6. L 1 5 uenly