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pit Of the maxifoldmiftrieiofmax; life. iittipereogre- marrow they are incurable. And therefore as that is e(lee. tare eft. Aug. med the bef} medicine for the gout which remouerh the fit, inPfal.ioa. and that the belt falue which kee eth the incurable vlcer E°arrac ,eleane and fweet : fo thofe are efleemed bell among worldly things,that for theprefent fettle as medicines toeate,ourna- turall miferies, which it is altogether impoffible fully to 'healeandcure. This will better appeare if wee confider of dome ipeciall inflances ; for what is hunger but a difeafe, which will confume a man in a few dales, like that called the wolfe, which if it bee not fed with outward things, feedeth vpon the body till it haue def}royed it ? And what is meare but the medicine of this fickneflè, which becaufe it cannot perfeÓlly cure it, therefore it is continually applied tore - moue the fit,and to a(fwage the prefent paine ? What is third but a ficknefhe, which would foone difpatch vs, vnles drinke as a phyficall potion did for the inflant ferue for aremedie? So what is watching but a naturali difeafe? and what is fleep but the medicine, that for the time helpeth it ? What is couctoufneffe but the foules feauer? and what riches, but as a medicine which fometime eafeth the fit for the prefent, though afterwards it bee more raging ? what ambition, but the hearts tympanic ?and what honours,but an inflant re- frefhing, which for a while allaierh the griefe, though itra- ther increafeth then abateth the (welling ? What is voluptu- oufnefic,butas the Wife man callethit,a merriemadneffe, 'Which bath fome prefent comfort, by pleafures and delights? What is labour, but a fickneffe, which re(1 eafeth ? what landing, but an infrmicie, which fitting mitigateth ? and this alto long vied becommeth ofa medicine a difeafe,which another kind ofdifpofition or placing of the body doth for the time tefrefh? All which though euflome make them fo familiar, that we doe not take any ferious regard ofthem, yet ifwe could po((iblie bee freed from them but one ycere, andhue without hunger, thirft,cold, heate, labour,concu- pifcence,wewould account them as troublefome difeafes, if againe they ( hould feafe vpon vs. 4.Se81.5. And thus man fire made miferableby finne,doth but (hew Of Joan- his Weetchedaes whilefl he frolicker it out in the fruition of thole