Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

0 fare maNifoldmiferiesofmantl f% ç hearts arethe harborow ofalmoft all difeafes,there lodgeth thefwelling tumor ofpride,the wolle ofambition,the drop. fie ofcouetoufnefl 'e, the madneffeofanger, and burning k neroffuriousreuenge .Initdwelleth our tumultuous pafl'i- ons,which continually rebell againft reafon,.and deniefub- le&ïon to God and his law; there is the feate ofcarnall loue, which fetteth theheart on.fire with the thing loued, and vex eth :it with continuali torment when it cannot.enioyit;there dwelleth enuieand hatred, throne tormenting a man with anothers happineffe, the other turmoiling him in plotting andcontriuing his- neighbours ruine,makinghimfelfe pre - fently miferable, becaufe bee would haue another fo in i ime to come. In it is tnirthand mourning, toy and forrow, the onepulling open theheart, and letting in much v. the other contra6ing and (hutting it,that it may keepe out all comfort and contentment, and both like rackets tolling a maninterchangeablie the one to the other, till hee bee tired, and evenworne outwith wearinefl"e.There harboreth hope, the great deceiuer ofmankind, which maketh him continu- allyyto expe& better, though he (lilt findcth work ; and eau - keb him daily to beleeue it,and to refreflihis foule with falfe eomforts,afterithach ten thoufaiid times failed him, and in- numerably often defrauded his hungric defires.And there al- fo dwelleth feare, which maketh a man prefently miferable becaufehe leech a pollibility of future miferie, and tormen- tech him not onely by aggrauatingthofe euils which are pre - fent,but alfo by recalling thofe which are pail, and by anti. cipating., and prefent apprehending thole which are to come, tnany whereof are nothing fo griettous felt as feared, and many neuerhappening at all : and yet thefe falle fearer beget true forrowes, and caule no lefl'e griefe though they neuerhappen, then ifthey were already happened, killing a man with an emptie found, and as it were with paper - Eliot, and making him miferable in truth, becaufe lice is fo in his owneconceite. Wherein we are muchmore wretched then the brutifh creatures ; for they forget euils pall, and flic irom thofe which are prefent, and homing efcaped are "lecure for distil= to come, quietly enioyingtheir prefent delights M m without