Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Of the manifold miferies ofmaxs life. I1 % this Colyquiretida, is enough to diflafle a whole potofpot- cage, snaking it to favour ofdeath; then how little fweetnes of comfort mutt we needs haue, when as the part which,we loath and abhorre, fo innumerable degrees exceedeth that which we like and loue? But who feeth not that one tooth aking Both more vex vs, then the health of all the reft of the bodie can delight vs? that we are more tormented with a (mall loffe,then comforted withgreat poffef ions? that when but one friend ofmany is taken, away, we haue more true griefs by him which is loft, then ioy and contentment in all the ref]? that we are more difquicted with one difgrace,then delighted with many honors? and that we are not fo much pleafed in the frtiition of many things loued anddefired, as we are difpleafed when we are cut fhort of our hopes, or are troubled and combred with fome euill which we loathand hate ?and the reafon is, becaufe tnifcries doe make a much deeper imprellion in vs then our comforts, partly becaufe they being in this vale of teares, as it were in theirown place and element, haue more vigour and flrength in them,one in- creating the force ofanother,as diners flicks in the fame fire; andretaine their owne nature without alteration; whereas good things aremore weake and feeble in this place ofba- nifhment, as being not proper to them, and lofe much of their purl tie and vertue, through the mixture and tainture of adhering euils:and partly,becaufe.by reafon ofour vnthank= fulneffe, we are alwaies readie to extenuate Gods bleffings, andneueralmof} thinke ofthem, but when they are taken from vs; and contrariwife,i f we haue theleall (parke ofeuil, we are apt and willing toblow vpon it with the flame of our impatiencie,vntillwe haue made ita great fire, which infla- meth and confinneth our hearts with.griefe and anguish But let vs defcend to forne particulars, and for orders fake 4.9íï!$.' diflinguifh the miferies of mans life into fome kinds; not Oftbemiferies. that itismypupae to fpeake largelyofall,feeing they are incident anrßattoa fo many and innumerable, that it would require a mans whole life to make but a bare catalogue or relation of them: but only fo many ofthern briefly, as may ferue to weans our hearts from the world which aboundeth with fuchmiferies ; and