Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

52.8 Ofthemanfoldmiferiarof mot! life. fomeefcape,yetfew or none are exempted from them all ; it being a thing impollible, though we were all an eye,to keep fuchnarrow watch ouer our health as may bee fuflicient to preferue it from the violence of fo many enemies which af- fault vs on all fides,within vs without vs,attd round about vs. Vnto which we may ad-de the tedious trouble and loathfome remedies which we are faine to vfe when our health is impai- red, when as we are bound to forbeare the things which wets chiefly defire,and to vie thofe which our nature abhorreth, pining our bodies with abfünence, which were oppreffed with fvineffe,and fwallowing into ourliomackes loathfome medicines,which wee haue fira diflempered with licorous meares. Whereby it is hard to chufe whether the phyficke or difeafe,the medicine or the maladie be the worfe :feeing our cure it felfeis.a fickneffe,our helpes hurts, and our medi- cines torments; neithercan we be deliueredfrom our griefs, but by, fuffering more griefe, nor free our felues from thcfe kinds of punifhments, vnleffe we be content tobee further punifhed. 4.Sec!I.IO. And thefe arefome of fhdc manifold mifcrieswhich are Oftbe.mmrifold incident to the body; the which arc not more in number, or arteries of man fo grievous and pernicious in their nature and quality, as ix refPcEi of thofewhich trouble andtorment the mind. For finne is the bwjouh. fickneffe of the foule, and_therefore lookc with how many IobS.g. corruptions itisinfc&ed,and with fo many fpiritualldifez. fes it is endangered. The vnderflanding is fubieíl to the Icrao.t} blindneffe ofignorance; fo as we may fay with the Prophet, that we are beafis by our owne knowledge; feeing we nei- ther know God,nor his will,our felues,nor our owne foules. Our willes arecrooked and rebellions,and fo whirled about with awilfull frenfie, as neither reafon nor religion can rule or gouerne them.Our memories are fubiet4 to a fpirituall'le- ahargie,forgetting 11111 what we fhould remember, and-re- membrittgwhatweIhould forget. Our confciences are ei- ther ficke of the deadpalle, hauing no fettle or feeling of Gods mercies or judgements ;or elfe full of melancholicke Teams and terrours, fores and wounds, fo as they are ready .defperately to crie out,when they haue the leafitouch. Our hearts