Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Of the m.ia fold mi feries offeror. t 5 27 vs how ignorant are we of the meafureofour owne bellies, how hardlydoe we keepe a meane in our diet, feeding fuflï cientlywithout furfetting? What care and cofl is required to furnifh vs with apparel!, houfing, lodging, bedding, and other furniture ? Whatdieting and watchingouer our appe- tite that it doe not make vs over greedily to feed upon that which we too fondly afe &, and fo impaire ourhealth ?and being lot+, what phyficke, medicines, bitter pilles,and loath- fome potions cautherizing, cutting, lanching, andplaifle- ring are we faine to vfe that wee may recouer it? Whereas thebrutifh creatures either want notthefe things, or eafilie fupplte their need without care or labour. What lands and poffeflìons are needful! for mans vie? what purchafes, wri- tings, conueiances, fuits in law, troubles and contentions, to holdthat he hath, and fecure his right? It were infinite toparticularifethofe thingswhich man wanteth, all which are fo necefharic vnto him, either in truth, or in his owne o- pinion, that his life without them cannot bee comfortable; and -looke how much ofthem is lacking, and fo much is de- tra&edfrom hishappineffe,and added to his miferie. Let vsadde to the miferies of five, the miferies ofperfon, 4.Sed1.9. - and thatboth body & foule.The body ofman is continually 0ft the miaer t fubie &to manymiferies; as hunger,thirfl,hcat,cold,watch- in and wearines;and that which is more cumberfome ariid r. and ßr/1 in re- grieuous then al the refl,vntoinnumcrable forts of Iickneffes fpett efbis and difeafes : fpr how many maladies are peculiarly incident body. to euery time ofthe yeere ; as fpring, fummer, autumne, and winter, to euery countrie and region, fex and age ? howma- ny difeafes which ouerthrow the health of the whole body, as plague, feuers, agues, confumptions, pal fies and the tell ; yea how many are incident to euery feuerall part, and as it were in wholetroopes attend upon euery particular member ohm nsbody ? finely fo innumerable are they, that ph yfiti- ans to this day cannot di fcouer, much lefe cure tbem;and howfoeuer they ha ue filled many large volumes with them, yet they come farte fhort of their infinite number, though thole which they haue already found, would make a man ficke but barely to reckon them- : many of which though fome