Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Of the miferies tbhichdceompany worldly rhiago. fgr becaufe his heart adhering, and beingas it were fatfglued to his wealth, the paine is all alike when it is pulled from him. And this maketh men fo impatient to thinke of parting with their riches, thatthey are readie With the Heathen, Hermocrates whenthey make their will, to make thetnfelues their owne spud 5mbettx heires, andto-bequcath vnto themfelues their owne poflef- de iniuß.itr.to; fions. The like alto may bee Paid of voluptuous pleafures, which howfoeuer they be but citildifh toyer, and of finall worth; yet thofewho fa their hearts vpon them, are vexed with no (mall forrow, when they are depriued'ofthem, and howfoeuer 'they had neuer any good by them in their fruiti- on, either in refpea of Cottle or bodie 5 y t being -inured to them, they bewaile the loffe of their company with bitter griefe, and whereas men remember their croffes, dangers, and troubles, with great comfort and contentment, when they are once pall; contrari wife the greater their palled plea - fute:hauebeen, the more bitter forrowtheybrirg . totheir hearts whenthcythinkc vpon them. Andthus'haue I llaewedsot only that all worldly things §,Sett1.tg, aremixt with,butalfo in themfelues full o'fmiferies.The con- rhecenc[free fiderationwhereof,as it Mould weane our hearts from the polwadi gall immoderate loue of theft vanities, whichhowfoeuer at the to feckeafter fir(l they feeme fvveete.and- pleafant, yet their after -tafle is God,#niruall full of bitterneffe ; and though they be crufled caner with a úenly igyrs Gem. thinne rindeof fugred delights,yet thatbeing prefently mel- ted away, as bone as it is rellifhed,the whole bodie and fub- fiance that remained), is no better, or more pleating to our tafle then gall orwormewood : loon the other tide it fhould moue vs highly to c(leeme,and chiefely ro affect , and feeke 'Gods fpirituall graces in this life, and heauenly glorie in the lifeto come, Cecing the former inthemfelues are free from tniferies, and leaue noafter-tang behind them; but how- foeuer at thefitfltafle theyfeeme a little bitter to flefh and blood, yet the more wee feed vpon them, the more fweete they will be unto vs,vntill at laft hailing made them the or- dinarie diet of our foules, they will talk more fweerely and delicately,then the hony or the bony combe,as the Prophet Dvisdfpakc bygood experience; and fo they will not only p p 3 delight