Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Of the nsiferiet which aecaaapanie worldly things y77 ing their pleafures, they lofe their credit and reputation, when either they are in themfelues vnlawfull, or in theirvfe immoderate ? What inward pangs feele they, when their confciences tell them that their voluptuous courfes will not agree with religion, and the feare of God, no nor yet with ciuility and common honefly? and what remorfe and flings ofrepentance doe they endure, when the fwectneffè oftheir pleafures are ouerpaft; though they are fo bewitched with thelep leafingforceries, that with the drunkard in the Pro- uerbs, after they haue found themfelues ficke, and furfettcd Pro.n3.3 f. - oftheir delights, and euenbeaten with the fcourges ofmany miferies, they continue in their voluptuous courfes, and with no leffe fondnes then before dote vpon their pleafures ? Finally, whereas the temperate man who hath learned to abound and to want, cloth fecurely enioy his delights, as not greatly valuing them, becaufe bee can as well bee without . them as with them; contrariwile hee that is voluptuous, ha- cling lèthis heart vpon chele bewitching vanities, and made an idoli of his pleafures, is in continual! feare oflofing that which hee fo much loueth; andwhen hee aboundeth with thofe things which his heart defireth, his reioicing is not fo great in their fruition, as hisfeares, ieloufies, and fufpitions, left in time to come, hee fhouldbee depriued of them. And howfoeuer chele carnall pleafures are but bale vanities and childifh toies ; yet men fetting their hearts vpon them, they become great,not in themfelues,but in opinion,which is the chicle mealure of worldly exceltencie. Which opinion as it maketh them to inioy them with loue; fo it caufeth them to keepe them with feare; like little children, which with no leffe care watch ouer their worchleffe trifles, then if they were the m oft precious iewels,and richeft trcafures. But hauing fufhiciently fhewcd the miferies which are in- 4.Se0. I7. cidentvntothefe worldly things, whilefi they are in cufiody71)wirer and poff ffion ; let vs now in the halt place confider, that as uie =oorlà they are gotten with labour, and kept with care, fo they are Pÿ¿,,,,5 rohe>, loll wichforrow and bitter griefe; for men hauingaduan - thìy are loft. ced them infinitely aboue their worth, both in their judge- ment and affedlion, and made them their Idols, vponwhom P p they