Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

15o Of themiferiesaccompanying ?borldly things. fently loathfome ; vnleffe our appetite be fharpened by the fowre fawce of interchanged miferies; that vntill we haue enough of them, we are troubled with our.owne concupi- fcence, but no fooner haue we fatietie; but there followeth tedious loathing ; and feldotne or neuer is there fuch a i.ufl equipoifc and proportion, but that we are vexed with too much or with too little. Finally, we find that cxtremitie of ioy is an heauie burthen, ofwhich the heart feeketh no leffe Gen.4 ç.t4.and to cafe it idle, by fending out whole floods of teares, then p: }9. when the waightofgricfeliethheauieonit: yea that being exccffîue it bringeth, as a more pleafant, fo all() more fudden death,then the greatefi extremitie ofbitter forrow; theheart letting out the vi tall fpirits,whilefhit -too much inlargethand opencth it felfe, to ktinpleafureand delight. .Seth. 3 But the miferies which accompany thefe worldly things That worldly will better appeare, if wee more fpecially confider thofe things arena which are incident vnto them, in refpe6t of their getting, gotten nahout keeping and lofing them : for they are gotten with labour, great labour.. kept with care and feare, and loll with griefeand forrovv; or ódgnútur rabo_ as it is in other words exprel %d ; paines begetteth them,care re, nuttiantur nurfeth them, and forrow accompanieth them to their fune. curls, da fepeli- rais. For fiat, howfoeuer thefe worldly things are of fmall Mt" "re. worth,,yet they are attained vnto with no fit all labour; nei- ther is there ally good thing in the earth tobe bought and purchafed without the coine ofcontinuall paines, and labo- rions induflrie : fo the Wife manfaith, that all things are fall Eccleforsa. and - oflbour, and that God hath giuen to the fonnesofinen to 3.9.10. humble them i.thereby, great trauailewith little profit. Nei- ther is it finali paineswhich men take in purfuing ofthefe va. nities, but fo extreme and great, that euen they commonly eonfitme and tire them : for fo the Prophet faith, Behold, ú it not oft/ac Lord of hafts, that the people Jhall labour in the verle fire? the people Iliaii own wearie themfibres for very vanitie? And finely who feeth not that worldly men doe take much more pines in attaining unto earthly trifles, then Gods fer- uants take for heauenly treafures ? and that with more eafe we might furnifti our kites through Gods ble:ling, with all fpirituall,i notifying and fauing graces, then with a (mall competencie Ihb,a.t;.