Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Of the manifold miîeries which are incident to edges. 5 37- rule, that he alto maybe partaker of his proui(ion. So thcfe yongcr prodigals, hauing (haken off the yoke ofgoùern- mene, and being wholly at their owne difpofe,doe wildly runne many defperatecourfes,expofe themfelues to innume. table dangers, and hauing neither the skill of getting nor care of keeping,, they confume all in riot and voluptuous pleafitre,till their flare is brought to fo low an ebbe, that they are readyto flarue for want of neceffaries,who before furfetted offuperfluitie, and to be in truth fellow- commo- nets with the hogs in their courfe fare of marl and draffe, who before were like voto them in the allegorie, glutting themfelues with pleafitres,and- wallowing in carnal! and fen- foal! delights. And howfoeuer they haue now got a name of liberty, yet truththey were neuer in the like thraldome; ¡icing they Iraue changed the gouernment of one father or mailer, into the tyrannie,or rather anarchic of innumerable pal lions: and reafon being not yet feated in his throne, they are like the people ofIliad without a king,who did nothing well, becaufc they did - eueryone what they would ; and whereas their-other goucrnoursruled with difcretit4naiíned at their good,rePtrained theni from running on in licencions courfes , and kept them in fotne good order ; there new guides,like lords ofmifrule,leade them with headlong ralh neffe into all defperatc attempts,riot, exce(fie, and all kind of diforder, which feemeth but to promife the prof nt fruition. offome vaine delight. Now fond loue,and filthie lufi,madde anger,and furious reuenge, proud emulation, and fcornefull contempt; vn grounded hopes, and caufelcife.feams, immo- defl'wantonncfle, and immoderate mirth; fports and pa- fumes no leffeful off nne and vanity,then of harne and dan- gers,and voluptuoufneffe in all kinds, as furletting, glùtto- nie, drunkenneffe,gaming, whoring, rioting and rcuelling, fwaggering and- fwearingare in their ful firength;and chicle predominance; -which if they yceld vino, they find them - felues coifed from one to another and: newer at ref+, and as iv were difiraeled'and hated betweene fo manyfuries,which day and night haunting them, carrie them headlong into in numerable dangersofbody, foule, and flare, whereinmany . fuffcr