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640 Ofthefhartne1e and fradtte ofmanslifr. tie to continue this fhort time.For I prayyou how many,yea how innumerablebe the caufes which produce this one ri- led, fome whereofare internal!, and tome external! ? For fuppofe that we were exempted from all outward dangers, which notwithflanding doe in wholetroups befiege mans life, yet wee continually Barrie death in our owne bofotns. For looke how many kinds ofdilèafes there are whereunto manslife is fubiedl,and fo many fecret enemies doe wee har- bourin our felues, which fight againfi our hues, and giuc death an calieenträce. We are not too cold,or toohor,with- out danger; hunger and exceffe are alike pernicious, feruing both as harbingers to prouide death a lodging in our hearts; yea euery fmallcrumbe going awrie,maketh a breach wher- by death may enter and furprife vs. So that wee cannot faue our lines by fighting, becaufe wee nourifh fo many in vs which are daily ready to betray vs; nor efcape by flighr,vn- lefl'e we could flee from our felues, feeing whether we wil or no,we continually carric the enemies of our lines about vs, yea within vs. 4.Seci.5. But let it be fuppofed that there were peace at home; let vs Of the innume- imagine that there were within vs no fecret foe to fupplant Table dangers vs; yet how many open and outward enemies are (here, vntowbicb which are hourely ready to aflàult our liues; if the great mans Commander do but luelgneofbattel ?Fortofa nothing daily fabita. g a Y g ofcommon calamities, which hang ouer whole common- wealths, as famine, fword, and peflilence, which are Gods publicke heralds to denounce againll vs war and deflrudlion,: how many priuie waies are there whereby death commeth vnto vs,yea we vnto death ? Forwhich way can we turne vs, what adlion or enterprife can we take in hand,but that there is fome danger, that deathwil encounter vs ?Ifwe take fhip, we are buta few inches diflant from death, the irntnoueable rockes, and the Imitable winds, the ouerflocvingwaues,and (wallowing lands, the tempeftuons fiormes,and fpoiling py- rats haue our hues at their mercy& command .Ifwe flay on the land, we are daily obnoxious to no fewer perils ; if wee takehorfe, our hues are in danger entry time he flumbleth ;. if we go in the flreets, looke how many carts and coches we meer,