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¶18 ©f the manifoldmifiries afmans life. ttenly oraciesofdiuinctruth,agreethe manifold tefiimonies ofthe wifer fort ofinen.The Sonne of Syrach faith,that great feel, fiafikus. trauaile is created forail men, and an beanie yoke for the fonact 40.11.3 of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother., Nrm6e, tillthe day that they retorne to the mother ofall things. Namely their rhoughrs,& feare of heart,& theimagination of the things they wait for, & the day ofdeath.From him that ftteth vpon the glorious throne, voto him that ti beneath en the earth and allies. From him that is clothed with blew Rh." and weareth a erowne, cuen veto him that is clothedin *pie /Melon: wrath and eouse, trouble andvngtetetnefé, fcareofdeath, rigour, ffrife, &c. With him agreethartother,w ho was herein more wife and learned, becaufe he law and acknowledged his owne ignorance; O Jdiora inter or- Lord my God (faith he) this life prefent is full oflabour and tbodosngr.de u ibulation, asbcing led with bitter mourning, and lofiwjth patient, verx bracktfh teares; yea lo great is the afflitìion of thiswretched ca tamplat b life, that it deferueth to be called rather a death, then life; or p Lome thing elle which is worts then death ; feeing scarce any man pafleth a day thereof, without comberfome croffes, and saute of griefe. Behold (faith another) the world in palling bytroublethvs,and yet weloueit; it deceiueth vs, and we account it faithfull; it killeth vs, and yet aside it Idle it is af- AuguG.Tom. feéied and defired ; it windeth from vs,and we embrace it.O to.Serm.3i. defiling world, how wouldefi thou rauifh thy loners with stond to delight,ifthou didde[i flourifh? but flourifh thou doefi not; fecing thou hall no fincere ioy, or liable conflancie, but thy hony and fweetneffe bath itbitternefe, falle delights, cer- taine griefe, vncertainegladneflè,hard labour, feat efull refs, replenifhed mifcries,and an emptie hope ofhappincffe.And lingua. adfra- ellèwhere, This prefent life is fraile and miferable; vnccr- tres an creme. taine, deceiving, and vnfati able :we are borne in paine and Serm.e, forrow, we are nourifled in miferie and difiïcultie,we hue in labour and die in griefe; and in the end («hick is moli to be lamented) ifwedepart impenitent, we plunge our foules in- toperpetuall torments. 4.Seíl.3. But this miferieofmans life will better appeare,ifwecon- 7be miferiea of ¡der it in the parts thcreof,which are chieflytwo,fin and pu- vnaut lfe in re nifhnic r; for the former,we are cuen in our firfi conception, pea of franc. fo