Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

AMIN 524. Oft %emanfold miferies of maw life. atleafl we in Tome danger, and feare oflofing them ?In ROeo 're'`a which refpe61 the miferies ofthislife may fitly be compared, prodeent iuto- dot;ote. to lobsmeffengers,ofwhich one hadno fooner made an end offpeaking,buc another prefently beginneth his tale,or like veto the billowes of the fea, which without intermifììon come tumbling one in the necke ofanother, giuinggvnto vs. fcarce time.ofbreathing, till we ref+ in the hauen ofdeath.'It is true that forre ofthefe miferies do one fo much exceed an- other,that the Jerre is (wallowed vp of the greater,like theri- uers by the fea, and is not difcerned, though ifit came alone, it would forcecomplaining : and fo predominant are force griefes , that ehçjeflerappearenomore, then the Stars when the Sunne fhineth,.not thatthey are taken away,but becaufe the greater working a more vehement i mpreaion,maketh vs infenfible ofthe leíl'e : yeafo are we for our fins iuflly (canted of things truly good, that to make Tome littleequalitieto our owne comfort, we arc faineto fill vp thenumber by put - tinginto the ranke ofgood things, chofe which we thirike leafl euill, and-things truelydefireable failing vs, to make choice offuch asare leafl worthie tobe refufed. Herein be- hauingour (clues like vntopolitike Commanders, who fee. ing the armie oftheireuemiesfar to exceed their owne par. tie in flrength and number, haue, tofill vp places, and to in. ereàfe their multitude, made Ihew of women in (lead of men, and (et vp a far offon flakes puppets and skare- crowes for fighting fouldiers, to difhearten the enemie, and encou- tage their owne followers. So webeing incountredwith in- numerable euils,and hauing few things truly good -to refrefh and aware' vs againfi their affaults, are Paine to make'choice of fhadowes in flcad offubfiances,and to make many things good only by reputation and imaginarie efleeme, whicha a found and vnpartiall judgement (carte thinketh tollerable euils. Nowifwe further confider, that as our miferies do in- fin itly in number exceed ourcomforts; fo alto one of them is fufficient to infufe fuck bitternefl'e into a multitude of our tnofl defrred delights,that we cannot rellifh their fweetnes, that one ounce of this gall ofmiferie, maketh loathfome a wholepoundofourfugred ioycs, and that a finall dram of this