with which he had slain men And farther Not being able to satisfie his wicked appetite with humane blood he wished That there were no more Heads in the World but one that he might take it off and consequently remain absolute Lord of the whole World Is it not sufficient then the great troubles and torments which the poor Creature hath suffered in the Womb of his Mother but ye must provide new sorrowes add new afflictions to his misery as soon as he is born into the World and that sometimes for delicacy or by ungrateful hard-hearted and unadvised disaffection of the Mothers who unnaturally denying them their own Breasts expose them to more anger then they are aware of for often Nurses do either change them or feed them with rotten diseased and corrupted Milk from whence it proceeds they come to live infirm sickly and impotent as it hath been experimented by many learned Physitians and that with a full damage the poor Creatures and infamy to the Mothers of them for there is nothing more certain that if the Nurse be blear or squint Ey'd the Creature will be so This is not from the Milk it sucks but from a continual converse and custome the Child takes looking upon his Nurse and if she be given to much drinking makes it of a faint and feeble complexion and causes it to love Wine and strong drink as we read in the life of the Emperor Tiberio who was much given to this Vice for the Nurse that gave him suck did not onely drink to excess her self but often fed him with sops in Wine Here you see how the dispositions and customes of Nurses do work upon nay are predominant over the weak natures of Children If she be given to drunkenness so will it if she be infirm the like will it be and if she be bad the Creature often proves worse But suppose we have him in the tuition of a wakefull wholesome and careful Nurse and he seems to be out of danger O sad and unfortunate animals even then he seems to be most surrounded with troubles I say even then thou canst not but consider him most environed and encompassed with miseries and calamities with what labour and pains do the unfortunate Nurses bring them up many do burst themselves meerly with weeping and shrieking insomuch that they need no other larum to keep them from their quiet repose even at midnight then what these do appear to be others do stumble fall and catch wounds not understanding how nor which way so that there remains hardly a joynt of the frail body but hath received some detriment or maim and if I should take in hand to relate the infirmities which very many poor creatures do naturally inherit from the loathsome and putrifactious diseases of the Parents it would be an endless work as also if I should begin to declare the multitude of toyes and fooleries they busie and imploy themselves within this their tender infancy With what childish sports do they spend their time with continual pratling running into the Water like a Frog building little houses of Clay wallowing and drailing in the dirt other whiles tumbling in the dust riding on a stick coveting and riding the Ring and galloping and changing Horses as if he were a Squire of the Stable Royal often playing with and following Dogs and Cats grow suddenly angry and is as soon pleased will laugh with one and cry with another and that in a breathing while Who would ever think or believe that so vile and dejected a Creature who is as it were overwhelmed with miseries and calamities and thereby in every sore and sad condition should change minde and forget himself so much as to swell with pride grow haughty and vain-glorious and that in a short time which consideration being well pondred by that Tragick Poet Euripedes caused him to say That we ought to weep and lament at the Birth of a humane creature for why he is not born but to be poor miserable naked surcharged with sorrowes and griefs and then die Here ends all his sighs groans and anguishes Of what salidity is it for miserable man to live or what profit doth this unhappy Creature reap from the Worlds light But a far better more sublime and holy use did that heavenly Prophet Job make of this consideration when he was in that grievous conflict by Gods commission when he said Job 10. 9 10 11. Remember I beseech thee that thou haste made me as the Clay and wilt thou turn me into Dust again Haste thou not poured me out as Milk and curdled me like Cheese Thou hast cloathed me with Skin and Flesh and haste fenced me with Bones and Sinews thou haste given me life and favour and thy visitation hath preserved me If that Prophet Jeremias out of pure compassion bewailed the miserable estate of Israel being Captive in Babilon If Anthises lamented the destruction of the proud City of Troy the Consul Marcello the ruine of Saxagosa in Scicilia and Salustrus of his Roman Citizens then it may be lawful for us and we may very well with so many and so good surely lament and bewail the miserable entrance that man makes into the Theatre of this World sad and unprofitable gain and dangerous converse that meets within this life and the sad and deplorable end he makes at his death the which being deeply contemplated by the Prophet Esaias he had rather been breathless and died in his Mothers belly cursed the Breasts that gave him suck the knees that sustained him sucking For the same reason the Prophet Jeremias considering that man was made of the dust of the Earth conceived in sin born to sorrow and in the end to be food for Wormes he wisheth that his Mothers Womb had been his Grave that it had been the Tomb on which his Epitaph had been written But let us now further consider the excellent Anatomy that the holy Prophet JOB makes of Man how he doth cloath and array him also how he sets him forth in his perfect Colours saying Man that is born of a Woman is of few dayes and full of trouble he cometh up like a Flower soon withers and is like a shade that never stayes in one being Prithe Reader lets more seriously contemplate and consider these words and that without giving discontent to any man leaving every one to the strength of his own judgement and argument yet that we may discern how all the Sentences and Sayings of the Heathen Phylosophers are but a kinde of babling compared with those of the holy Spirit of God they are but a Dream nay a Scipher in respect of the least point of Grace which the Lord our God puts into the heart of man when he would have him to know and acknowledge his humble and low condition Man sayes he that is born of a Woman or the Son of a Woman It may be these last Words may appear to be superfluous and that they were not fitly
he ought what can they expect from God What chastisement must their Parents fear that instead of being Reformers and Correctors shall be Corrupters of their Children Such may be compared to Munckies who do so love their young ones that they are ever making much of and hugging them in their Armes by which means they often fall into the hands of Hunters Even so it is with Parents who for want of chastising and putting their Children from them and putting them ou 〈…〉 learn Lawful employments come to fall 〈…〉 the hands of Justice and to ill ends with disgrace enough to their Family grief and shame to their neglective Parents and Friends The ancient Romans so much abhorred the Parents that did not correct their Children that for this cause alone they made a Law in the which they ordered and commanded That the Son that was taken in any offence should be for the first time reproved for the second punished severely and for the third hanged and the Father banished as a party in the fault because he did not sufficiently reprove and chastise him Objection Let me ask one Question by the way If those ancient Romans were living at this time in these our dayes what would they do seeing the pitiful and lamentable Estates of many of our Common-wealthes What Banishments Chaines Prisons and what kinde of Torments think you would they now invent to chastise an infinite number of Fathers who do not onely solicit seeing they cannot teach their Children themselves long before they send them to School and tuition of Masters their ruine but poyson them with â—â—â—r daily bad examples which doth so corrupt and vitiate them that all that can be done towards their future reclaiming comes to as much as nothing for those who from their Births should by good examples and advice instruct them to be vertuous do teach and ingraft in them the poysons of Blasphemy Swearing Drunkenness Gluttony and wickedly spend the Estates of their innocent Children Whore Lye prostrate and sell their Wives and Daughters in sight of the World How many Mothers are there at this day who like HERODIAS teach their Daughters to Dance spend all their time in learning Rhetorical-Complements entertaining Gallants Triming Dressing and Painting themselves colouring their Cheeks Lips and Eye-brows adorning themselves with rich Cloaths and Jewels as if they would set out a Shop of Wares and make themselves Pedlers and go to sell jets and prances in the Streets to which Parents what can be expected to happen less then did to the Royal Prophet David that his own Children were Executioners of the punishment of his sins in this kinde who were so unruly and unnatural wicked that one of them Amon by name Ravished his own Sister Thamer and another who was Absalom killed his Brother Amon and conspired the ruine and the death of his Father and at length forced him to flie from his House and lay with his Concubines wherefore it is an ancient Rule of Phylosophers That God often permits many sins to be committed and go unpunished in this life deferring it for a greater demonstration of his Clemency But the sin and offence that many Parents do commit against him in not giving good documents and examples to their Children he never lets that pass but some way or other makes them even cruel and afflictive Executioners of Gods Justice on their Fathers faults in this World and that justly for Parents cannot bestow on their Children a better Legacie then good wholesome and vertuous documents and sound knowledge with which he may make him immortal and of a perpetual fame for the Natural being the Mortal Body and this short and miserable life which we receive and give to our Children Death with a sudden and fierce snatch doth soon cut the thrid thereof To sum up what hath been said Suppose the Creatures do escape the dangers of the Mothers Womb happen to be Nursed with unwholesome and corrupted Milk of their infirm Nurses fall into greater and more dangerous evils and which is terrible if they come under the tuition of lewd Masters and under the power of wicked and perverse Guides to teach them yet this is nothing in comparison of the Souls mis-fed and mis-led for of far higher price and esteem is the maintenance of the Soul then that of the body And here we must not forget to quoat the Divine Plato who hath written more at large to this purpose then any of the ancient Heathen Phylosophers therefore it will be fit we make some profitable use of his Authority and Doctrine which is so rare and choice so super-natural and Divine written with discreet diligence and care handled at large and exactly and set forth in so gallant and lofty Stile that many Heathens that have read his Books Ziocha Of the Immortality of the Soul and another in which he principally treats of the short and miserable life of Man they cast themselves down head-long from high Rocks into the Sea and into deep Rivers that thereby ending and cutting the thrid of this miserable and sorrowful life they might enjoy that pleasant and quiet one which they hoped for towards which all Navigate as to a certain and secure Harbour of health and happiness This Phylosopher in the Dialogue that he made of Death and the frail and weak life of Man introduceth a great Phylosopher called Socrates the which with admirable Eloquence particularly declares the miseries calamities torments and vexations which attend our life saying thus Doest thou not know that humane Life is nothing else but a pilgrimage and a continual motion from one Estate to another the which Wise men do pass over with great joy and content and rejoyce and sing when they feel the miserable e 〈…〉 his our pilgrimage Doest thou not know very well that Man is composed of Body and Soul and that his Soul is inclosed and set in the Body as in a Tabernacle or House with which Dame Nature was pleased she should goe covered and laden and that with sorrow grief and sufficient care and extreamly against her will she being oppressed with such a load of frail Flesh so great troubles and so infinite a multitude of evils Although put the case that Nature were friendly would do us some favour or repart some of her courtesies to any of these oppressed Souls as to give them a light and agil Body or sooner to afford them liberty yet in the end such are the counterfeit and attendant weight of evils which are incident to them that the miserable and afflicted Souls not being able to bear so great a burthen they grow peevish mutinous afflictive and very desirous to pack from so streight a prison that they may go and enjoy the happiness of those Caelestial and Eternal blessings which they so much desire and cordially seek after Do but consider that the laying aside or leaving this Life is but a Truck or Exchange from worse to better What do we or what
forefathers Or from that cluster of bitter Grapes which the Prophet Jeremiah speaks of That the Fathers have eaten bitter Grapes and the Childrens teeth are set on edge A bitter Fruit indeed What is the first musical note that he expresses at his first coming into the World What are they but cries tears sighs sobs and groans which are certain Messengers Discoverers and Fore-tellers of the calamities which afterwards he is to undergoe the which he not being able to express in words endeavours to put us in minde of them with weeping tears All the Emperors Monarchs Princes and great Lords which commands the World and turns it upside down at their pleasures these at their birth sing the same Song are subject to the same frail condition The least Creature that Nature produces so soon as they be born begin to creep about and seek out for provisions and necessaries to maintain life The Chicken so soon as it gets out of the shell findes it self free of that enclosure there 's no such need of washing and cleansing as there is of man it presently runs after the Hen understands when she calls and begins to pick and eat it flies and fears the Kite although it never received nor saw any hurt by him but meerly by instinct of Nature it knowes to avoid danger now do but consider and contemplate man when he is first born and he will appear to be like a monstrous lump of Flesh which many other Creatures might easily devour he not having any strength or power to move or defend himself he would die with hunger not being able to take the Breast but would as soon suck a sweetned poysonous potion as that and would as soon take red fire hot Iron in his hand as any eatable thing not being of capacity to know good from evil If thou leavest him in the Cradle there will he nestle in his own Dung and batten in his own Urine not being able to cast those Natural excrements from him nor cleanse himself as the least of all other animals can do These are the sweets and odiferous scents with which Nature doth perfume man with such sort of stuffe doth she perfume and adorn this little room wherein is contained so much presumption and haughtiness of spirit that he esteems himself to be so valiant and strong as if he deserved to be Lord of all the other Creatures when many of them are more valiant and stronger then he But let 's trace his farther progress After he is lanched forth into this Gulf of miseries and sorrowes how its needful to suckle him and give him Food to maintain life for if they do not give it him he knowes not where to finde it This care is to be the Mothers for this reason Nature hath given them 2 Breasts like two small round Gourds proper places and fit to contain the Milk for the sustenance of their Children but how many Mothers are there at this day if the truth were spoken who are contented and think they have done too much for their Children by bringing them forth onely and that many times Abortives and oust out from their Entrails and are presently sent out to some Village to be nursed without either seeing or hearing of them at all for which cause there is many times a poor Child sent them instead of their own Such Women do rather take pleasure and contentment in a Foisting-hound or Lap-dog and with much more shameless delight do they kiss hugge and embrace it then if it were their own natural Child which they count a shame to feed cleanse swathe or take into their armes Most part of the other animals do not use this practice nor are so unnatural to their young ones they never commit them to any other although they have never so many but are a continual shield of defence and protection to them for they will not forsake them until they see them of sufficient strength and capacity to guide for the present and defend themselves from danger And which is more strange there is often strifes debates and emulacions betwixt the Males and Females which shall do most for them The truth of which hath not onely been experimentally demonstrated in the Apes but more in the Beares a sort of cruel fierce and ravenous Beasts which love their young ones so much that they doe not onely content themselves with cockering and giving them the teats but seeing that they are cast out without any form or shape they labour with a wearisome toil continually licking them until they have brought them to a Natural figure or likeness Also the Birds although they have many times 5 6 or a dozen under their Wings possess no Gainers of Corn yield no Milk nor have any store laid up to feed them yet they never leave nor forsake them but finde out new wayes force strength out of weakness and act as far as nature hath taught them that they may comply with Natures obligation and hatch and bring up their young ones But where can we finde a better or more sollide reason of humane misery then this That the poor Wretch is no sooner born but he is deprived of that which of just right doth belong unto him and Nature hath provided for him He is forced to suck the Milk of a strange person and often if it be a cheap Nurse they do not look whether she be crooked maimed or lame or whether she be infected with any foul vice or infirmity either in body or condition from the which they receive so much prejudice and hurt that it were far better they should be brought up in the Desart then come into the hands of such Nurses and if it were onely the body that received this damage it would not behalf so bad it 's not that onely that 's interested spoiled and hindered as formerly it was seen in Titus the Son of Vespatian the Emperor and many others who being brought up and suckled by an infirm Nurse passed the few dayes of his life in a weak sickly and unfortunate condition as Lapriadus writes But all this is nothing in comparison of the detriment and prejudice the Soul receives from that evil Character which is stamped therein by the lewd breeding and the wicked life of the Nurse Dion a Greek Historian in the life of Cayus Caligula the third Emperor of Rome writes That they did not impute to his Parents the wicked infamous and mischievous Nature of this lewd and blood-thirsty Emperor because it was certainly known he had suckt it with the Milk For the Nurse that gave him suck was of a wicked and cruel disposition by nature and had a custome to dip her Niple in blood and then give the Child the Teat from which he commenced to be such an inhumane and appetitious glutton as to eat mens blood for afterwards he not satisfying himself with continual Deaths Woundings and Wicked Actions which he committed but would suck and lick the Swords and Daggers
thing it is to keep that which all men desire and use their uttermost wits to steal procure and enjoy behold said Guillermo Periera a jealous man the great danger in which I leave thee the head which thou now hast of a round forme may be turned into a square shape meaning in plaine termes thou mayest be cornuted in conclusion if she be rich she will be proud if beautifull there 's ground for jealousie if foul or ill shaped there 's matter of hatred and disaffection offers for which cause Diponates as a deep sufferer in the affaires of Wedlock was wont to say That marryed people had only two good dayes the one was the Wedding day in which all is pleasure contents and pastimes the bride is fresh beautified and chearfull all new joyes or novelty is pleasing in delights alwayes the begining is most apetitious and savory the other is the day of death of a mans Wife for the Snake being dead her poyson dies with her even so when the woman dies the man is freed from a sharpe and hard servitude in confirmation of this they produce a story of a young Roman Gentleman that the day after the Wedding his friends finding him sad and pensative after the enjoyment of his first nights pleasures some of those that were most intimate with him and private asked of him the cause of his sorrow and why he that had a Wife beautifull rich and of noble Parentage should be so sad he stretched forth his Leg and pointing to his foot he said friends you well may see how well made and fashionable my Shooe is but none of ye know where it pinches me Philemon affirmes That a Wife is an inexcusable evil to a Husband for its a difficult thing to find a good Woman therefore saith the antient Proverbe in Spain Vna buena muger una buena Mula una buena cabra son tres malas Bestias a good Wife a good Mule and a good she goat are three necessary evils to make good this they produce Plutarch questioning is there any thing more quick and nimble then the tongue of a Woman any thing more biting or more pearcing then the injuries expresses more rash and indiscreet then her boldness more execrable then her malice more dangerous then her fury more false or counterfeited then her teares not to make a large relation of many other offences the ill huswifrie and gadding abroad of many women neglecting their Children putting them to others to Nurse and if they do bring them up at home they are too often so perverse and wicked by their Mothers example document and cockering that they do not only hazard the losse of the Honours and Estates of their fathers but their persons and lives also leaving such a blot upon their families which can never be blotted out or taken away of which evil Augustus Caesar feeling himselfe hurt and wounded he wished that his Wife had never brought forth Children he was wont to call his Empress and his neece horsleaches that sucked and wasted him and his substance to his great griefe and paine sure he had a bad wife and worse children Marcus Aurelius one of the most wise and worthy Emperours that ever took Golden Cepter in hand well considering and understanding what passages there are betwixt marryed people being importuned by some friends to marry his Daughter he gave them this answer Do not salute or presse me any more about this matter for if all the councels of the wisest men were joyned together and refined in a Goldsmiths fire they would not be sufficient to give a certain good and wholesome advice for making of a happy match or marriage therefore how do I think that I alone should dispose of her so suddenly without advice aod deliberation It s now six years since that Antonio Pio made choice of me for his Son in law and gave the Empire in marriage for dowry we were both deceived he in accepting me for Son in law and I receiving his daughter for Wife he was called Pio because he was good and charitable to all only to me saith he he was cruel and pittyless for he gave me with a very little Lady abundance of bones these portions these bitter galls and many others mixed with the pleasures of Wedlock and if we would confess the truth we cannot so easily marke hide paint over and set forth the gallantry delights and pastimes thereof if we weigh in the ballance against them the weighty burden of cares travells and troubles which married men undergo it will be a great happyness if the Scales are equall and the burden the lighter which God grant to every man The Third BOOK OF THE Theatre of the World Wherein is discoursed Mans miseries more particularly and exactly to the end of his Dayes LETS leave the Estates conditions and degrees of men in their labours travels sorrows and dealings casting their nets and hookes in the maine Ocean of the World and return to our commenced purpose of the miseries of Mankind that we may more particularly give account of the remaining scourges and afflictions with which nature doth chastise whip and torment Men with which engines she endeavours to draw this vessel of Earth to the knowledge and love of God were it not just that man seeing the corruptions of all estates and degrees of the World their contemptible and loathsome conditions and beings that dead he is nothing but a harbour for Wormes a Corps and being cast into the Grave if after a time it be opened gives such a horrible and contagious scent that all that come neer or passe by stop their noses that they may not be infected with it were it not just that affliction should come upon him asswage his pride and allay the wicked motions of his heart and bring him to a contemplation of his frailty and thereby be afraid to offend his God for our vile and impudent nature is grown to such a height that we do put our selves in defiance with God as if we would fight the field with him we break the fences and cut through his true established Uniformity of Religion and worship and by necessities born of our own fantastical braines as many seeming wise men do in our dayes willfully and not for conscience withstand it and do thereby God send it be not laid to their charge keep the people from unity love and quietnesse St. Jerome and St. Austin do affirme that in their days the Word of God was in great esteeme and published that there was hardly a Nation in the World where there were not some Christians even in the remotest parts thereof but in our dayes for our ingratitude and our manyfold transgressions God hath been pleased to turne his back upon us overclouding the light of his Gospell so that it appears in luster only in the least quarter of the World our Europe where it hardly enlightens two parts of three and what is more to be lamented is
placed but truly they are wisely set down and very significantly do point at the frail principium of this proud Creature Man for why he is born of a Woman and amongst all the Creatures that God made there is none so subject to miseries and infirmities as they are and especially those that are most fruitful They seldome have a months quiet throughout the year and that not without fears terrours cares and continual tremblings Now after so miserable and deplorable a beginning if this life were long and healthy he could the better pass it over But Job saith presently after He is of few dayes and those full of misery There are few creatures that have a life so short as man nor any so easily taken away therefore what need instruments Poysons Graves and Swords and the like do but stop his breath for a short time and he will fall down dead and lie like a Log of Wood his life being onely an Airy breath which inhabits the body and quickly flieth away Theophrastus and other ancient Phylosophers murmured against Nature because she had given so large lives to the Harts Ravens and other animals which serve for little in this World and Man which is Emperor and King of all the Creatures and absolute Lord over them his is but short and brief though he have honourable and caelestial imployments here and what is worse she clips and cuts from this short life which is bestowed upon him a great part with Sleeps Dreames Anger 's Cares Troubles Losses and other misfortunes which attend molest and abreviate this short life these our few dayes and if we should well cast up and consider the pains labours and troubles we undergo the many anguishes and cares thereof and how they waste us and hasten us to our ends we shall finde that few are the dayes of our sorrowful Pilgrimage here which brings us to the comparison of which the Prophet makes of man with the shade What sayes he is the shadow but onely an appearance which deceives the sight of man a fancy a figure without being or substance the which sometimes appears greater sometimes lesser even so is man which sometimes seems to be something and in effect nothing for when he is most elevated most raised up and at his highest on a sudden there is no more memory nor trace of him then of a shadow when night is come it 's with him as the Royal Prophet David sayes 37 Psalm 35 36. verse I have seen the wicked Man in great power and spreading himself like a green Bay Tree yet he passed away and loe he was not yea I saught him but he could not be found the Memory of wicked Men shall rot Here thereto have we with as much brevity as possible could be set forth through how many troubles stormes and shipwracks miserable Man passeth before he arriveth at the Haven of Youth and gets out of the tuition of Nurses and from that Labyrinth of Childhood in which he must be assisted and looked after with so much care and diligence Let us now consider and contemplate him being grown bigger and of a more comely stature and see whether his miseries and sorrowes have end here Verily if we will be impartial Judges we shall finde that his calamities and labours do not onely terminate but that he falls into and launcheth forth into a more spacious Sea of Dangers and Afflictions For by this time Nature hath provided for him a thousand Combats and Assaults stronger and more fiercer then the former his blood begins to boil the Flesh allures and invites with her delights sensuallity shews the way how to put them in practice the World and the Devil tempt and beguile the disordered Appetite of his Youth with inviting to him such drest and well prepared delicates that it 's impossible that he who is assaulted surrounded and stormed with so strong and so many Enemies but that he should be conquered if he receive not succour from some good and friendly Angel by the particular Grace and Favour of God for in that body which enjoyes Riches Liberty and Youth without restraint so generally lodge dwell and inhabit all sorts of Vice in the World The Emperor Marcus Ancilius said I am not in charity with our Step-mother Nature who seems not to have satisfied her revenge upon poor man at his beginning and his being unnaturally fed with the Milk of a strange Breast but strives farther to load him with all sorrows she can Now he must also learn his Trade Occupation or Science from a strange hand for which cause she produces few Catoes who will take care to teach their own Children but rather she tauses Fathers now a dayes to disdain and count it an undervaluing to do it and so leave them to taste of the bitter Potion of cruel and neglective School-masters which often discourages them at the first entrance to learn the liberal Arts â—nd Sciences 〈…〉 s certain there is no ground be it never so fertile fat and fruitful that is not mar'd 〈◊〉 wasted and will bring forth Berries and Thistles sooner then other Grass if it be not well manured in all respects and the more Fertile it is the greater quantity of unprofitable Weeds it puts forth if they neglect to Plough Sow and Dung it so it is with Youths they are apt to grow worse then better though they be never soingenuous unless the Parents seek out trusty and careful Masters to teach and moderately correct them or do it himself which is all very convenient If Man desires to gather good Fruit from Trees and Plants it will be necessary when they are young and tender that he do cut prune and dig about them and take off the superfluous Branches Even so he that desires from the Youth and tender disposition of the Children to gather good Fruit and not meet with vexations from them in his old age had need to cut short prune and hinder the growing and encreasing of Vices and all occasions thereof which too commonly do bud forth in their young dayes and to avoid all scandal and discredit the neglect hereof may bring upon himself and be a perpetual sorrow to Parents and Friends How many Fathers and Mothers have there been and are in this World who for neglect of bringing up their Children when young and giving them good instruction and learning have had a thousand vexations troubles afflictions and discontents from them in their old age And how many Mothers be there that instead of instructing in vertue and teaching modest retirement to their Daughters do bring them up to too much daintiness ease and liberty onely shewing them how to follow their own delicious Appetites the which we may call Mothers and Nurses of the Body but cruel Step-Mothers to the Soules of their poor Daughters If that High Priest Eli was Heavenly chastised and his Sons destroyed because he did not reprehend and chastise them with that rigour and severe Authority which