Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Of the manifold miferier of gaanl l fe. 3 2 3 chore things wherein he chiefly delighteth : and being ficke fovterat; ee of innumerable maladies, he is perferlly cured of none, but whitb man ftno onely is cared for the time by often changing his miferies 4e7h iu wotid- with one another, hungring and cati ng, and alter eating, a.I7rbiögr. gaine hungring; interchanging waking with flceping, and fleeping with waking, like a ficke man turning from fide to fide, to find Come fhort reprivall of his paine; or as if one fhould !cape out ofthe fcorching heat,into the chilling cold, and often interchange the one for the other, accoï,ting both his rcfrefhing, whereas in truth they are both his torment. For fo is man naturally befotted on there earthly trifles, if he be ignorant of true happineffe, and hath not fixed his heart on God and heauenly things,that he laboureth to haue them in abundance, which he hath no foonerattained vnto,but he bath alto the vCuall companion thereof, glutting fatietie and loathfome wearines : and no Comer is he thus cloyed, but prefently he feeketh to refrefh his dulled appetite with vatic- tie and change ; one while defiring motion, and another whilerefl,now afedling mirth,and foone after folemne gra. uitie; in the night wifhing for day, and in the day for night, in heate for cold,and in cold forheate; eating and falling, waking and fleeping, dreffng and vndreffing, fitting and (landing, walking and lying, with filch often iteration, as might well caufe a loathing latietie, when as he is aiwaics in the fame motion,like the horfe in the mill, and (as the Wife man fpeaketh) feeth ne new rhino under the Sunne. EecleGaflicus But betides there inherent euils which make there worldly 1'9. vanities fomuch defired, in themfelues diflaflcfull, they ate 4 Sty.;. conioyned and mingled with innumerable other miferies oftheadboen¢ which adhere vnto them ; the which fo farre exceed in nuts- indent' á wheears 7 ber, gnantitie and qualitie, all the earthly delights and corn- maar life, forts which we enioy, as the brarnblcs the rof, or the field weeds, the garden flowers. For who feeth not, yea who can- not fpeake vpon his owns feeling experieece, that no day pafleth without a dumber of miferies attending on it,whilefl either the euitswefearedofa!l 'Ton vs, or the good things we hoped for fails vs, and deceiue our expeclarion, or the comforts which we prefently enjoy ate either indeed loll, or at