Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

_Ofthe manifold mif rtesincident unto all ages. 5 3 5' not onely prefagi,og future miferie , butas feeling prefent paine ; reseiuing theft larft forrowcs oral eir birth asrheear- veftofallthe tell, which they are to fuffer in theirenfuing 1ife.For though he:efcape thele dangers, and recouer of the hurts which hefuflained in his frfl confiii, yet what is the prolonging ofhislife,but the increafing ofhis torments ?fee- ingman aboue al other creatures is compafl'ed with mife.ries; for whereas they are able as foone as they come into the world, to fand, go,and helpe themfelues, wanting but few things, all which they find ready for them : man as foone as he is borne, being pore, naked, and miferable, wanterla many-things, and hath nothing to make fupplie; hee flan- deth inneed of milke to feed him, clothes to coucr him, fire to warme him, nudes to rend him, being altogether vnable to helpe hitnfelfe.Heharhnovfe of vnderflanding to know his wants,nor fpcech to difcouerthem,onely he giueth foam generall notice ofthetn by his bitter crying. He cannot goe, $and, or creepe, nor with all his wit and firength repels the injuries of alillie flit. And in this itripotencie he continu- eth long, bringing much trouble to others,before hee bath any pleafurc inhimfelfe. Tn refpc& of which prefem and en- ruing nil feries,Teremie wifheth that hit mether:Le/he had been Ier.so.t7.1g btegrane, and her wombe a perpetuall conception, becaufehee eaeceforth of the zeombe to fee labour andforrow,and that hie daiesß' uldbeconfomed with/hone. But proceed we from the birth to the infancie and child- 4 hood ofrnan,and herewe fhall find no immunity from mile- 0f rbe mi ¡cries ries; but rather as theyincreafe, fo thefe increafe with them, ofiof"xcie, and grow flron cr with their llren th. For. no boner are cbddhood,axd poore infants deliuered from the prifon of the wombe, but }exb. they are prefently bound hand and foot, and wholly at the difpofe ofothers, as not hauing obtained liberty, but onely changed the prifon and place of their reflraint; and all the time of this infancie being without knowledge and vnder- flanding, and darkened with more then brutifh ignorance, is fpent in naturaliadlions,cating, drinking, Heaping, crying and fuch like, being deflitute of all worldly delights and comfo;ts,and onely fcnfible in gricfes and mil-cries, Next vn- Mm4 tso