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O f the manifold miferie.r incident woe all ages. y33 CH AT. XXIII. Of the mi fens which are fpecially incident onto All the ages of man. Nd thcfe are the miferies which aregenerally 6.sel7Y, e a .% incident to mankind. Vnto which we may :raile- p y belonging ri,swhiahheit ''' adde thofe which are f eciall m to e > all ages and cu ates; for no fooner haue we fabrtli two is Itri our being, then we be in miicrie; and long bit mashers before we breath the sire,\ce draw in corruption, and are in- wombe. feél:ed with the poifon offin :before we can finne we are 6n, ners,as being heires ofourfiril parents tranfgrcflìon,and de- filed with ournext parents corruptions; and we offend God, before we know what it is to offendirim : for with our pa- rents feed is mixed the feedsofall manner offnne,and as we growand wax f +rong,fo finne with vs groweth vntill it come to ful maturity.Euen in our firff conception we alto conceiue corruption; and then the foundation of wickedneffe is laid, vpon which in the whole courfe ofour life w e build vp the f rongholdsoffinne .ThenweareAtheifis, Idolaters, blaf- phemers, Sabbath- breakers,adulterers,murtherers,theeues, Falk witnef-bearers, not by aéì:uall tranfgreffion, but by an habitual! difpofition ; and as we are faid to be men, becaufe we haue in vs the image of man, and feeds ofhumanitie, though we neuer did any manly aéìion, fceing nothing is wanting but growth and maturities fo by as good right we are called (inners of all kinds, bccaufc we haue the nature and very image of finne, and the feeds of all corruptions li- ning in vs, which if we grow will grow with vs; and come to full ripenes, if we tuer attaine veto perk& age. And thus Dauidconfcffed,:that he was borne ininiquitte, yea that his Pfalme 571: mother concerned him in finne : and lob demandeth, who can Tob 14.4. and bring a cleane thingoutoffáhines, or how man can be cleaner <4 Which it borne of a woman? And the Apoftletelleth vs, that by Rom4.ta. one man finne entredirate thetaorld,anddealbbylin; and fa death went oucr all men,becanfe all men hod framed. Now what a mi- ferie m 3