Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

5.34 Of the se tOldmiferies inciderst onrowll met. ferie is this to be (inners, asfoone as we be men ?co be poi Co. ned in theveryfoutraineand leprous in the very firfi princi. pies ofnature, feing our fickneffe is the more incurable, be- Tonto; nofïti caufe it is heredi. tar; e ? to be dead in tanne, as fooneas we are f cerunt dam.. aline to the world, the flaues ofSatan,before we are out of quern, ante- quern prifon of the wombe and in the (fate of damnation, be gram nutum, p , Bernard. fore we are-in the !late of the lining ? And aswe are thus mi. (enable in our fpirituall.eflace when we are firí't conceived: fo our outward and corporalcondition is alfo full of wretched nelle ;for what are ourmatterand flr(l principles, but abate excrement ofnatureand impure feed ?what is the habitation ofthe noblef}, but the lirait and darke ptifon of the wombe, inuironed with.the filth of nature ? and what is his nourifh. menr,but the impurefl part of his mothers blood ?Butthouggh it be a prifon itrrefpe6i ofmifery, yet not in refpeél offàfety, for the child ire the wombe is Gcke of the mothers difeafes, furfetred with her in temperance, and pined:with her want, it is fubieato euery rufh,& endangeredwitlieuery fpreine, euery finall bruife bringing with it amaime, &,euerymaime; monfirous:mifil ape..Finally, it is in.dàngerof (Ming; before it breathe, ofchoaking before it feed, and the wombe in which it is, borne, is. oftentimes the tombe in which it is buried. 4 Set. But fay thatheefèapedh the dangers ofthewombe; fay he Butane mite_ perifheth not with the miferies of thefe nine moneths clofti ries in his b:nb, imprifonment; yet how great paine and perillindureth he, when the daycommeth of his mothers deli uerance and, his libertie? vnto what torments cloth hevnwittinggly ppusher, who bath folongborne and nourifhed him;himfelfe bearing agreat parr in.chefe pain es and miferies ? how faine are they to- part-the one fromthe other, and-yet whatforrow =is there at-their parting?into-what dangers and extreame hazard are both expofed,the mother in bearing, and the_child in fuffe_. ring ?-how many are therewhich depart, as fooneas they are parted, perifhing on the coafl as Toone as they are launched out into this feaofmiferics ?and they which couldno longer line-together, die becaufe they are <feuered and put afunder: nomaruelltherefore if they are borne-weeping and trying, not