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end_n	age_n	life_n	year_n	1,723	5	5.1041	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09490	The first part of the consideration of humane condition vvherin is contained the morall consideration of a mans selfe: as what, who, and what manner of man he is. Written by I.P. Esquier.	Perrott, James, Sir, 1571-1637.	1600 (1600)	STC 19773; ESTC S114574	45,485	68

will seeme a moonth and every moonth a yeare Psal 90.10 and the time to longe that he hath liued David the Prophet telleth vs that the age of man is three score yeares and ten and if hee liue anie longer it is rather to bee reckoned a vexation then a life this is a short time for a man to liue no longer and yet if every one might attaine to these yeares the life of man might be said to be of some length But if it were possible to record the yeares of every man that dieth we should finde in that large Register of mens liues that where one man ariueth to the age of threescore yeares end ten there are a hundreth which doe not see halfe so many there dye many moe in their infancy then in their ripe yeares moe in youth then in olde age all which sheweth how shorte this life is and what thou art in the Fruition thereof Adde vnto this the Vncertainty thereof wherein thou maiest quickly conceiue how many and sundry sortes of casualties thy life is subiect vnto which makes that more vncertaine then the winde that is ever mutable and full of alteration To confirme this if wee should goe about to reckon how many instruments death hath to bring every mans life to an vnexpected end the best memory would rather faile to reckon vp the several engines that death vseth to destroy mans life withall then that death would want meanes to worke a sodaine and an vncertaine end of mans life This may be prooved by diverse examples of men of all degrees sortes and conditions whoe in their best strength and chiefest time of their health and prosperity haue bene suddainly set vpon by the vncertaine executioners of death when they least suspected them or thought thereof Aul Ge Lib. 15. Cap. 20. As for example The famous greeke Poet Euripides being in good health supped with Archelaus after the which as he returned home when he thought himselfe least in daunger of death he was sodainly and that on a trice torne to pieces with dogges and so founde by triall how vncertaine this life is Caesar who had past infinite perilles in the warres was by Brutus and Cassius slaine suddainly in the Senate house Plutarch in vita C. Caesaris where he thought his life to be most safe and least suspected the daunger of death so approuing by his vntimely end the vncertainty of every mans life Q. Curtius writting the history of Alexander the great reporteth that whē he had conquered the world and death to as it seemed to himselfe he was comming to Babylon caught suddainly by death and made to know and confesse that vncertaine is the life of man though he were so great a monarch T. Hostilius the third King of Rome Plutarch in vita Numae vvhen he supposed himselfe safest and freest from deathes darte vvas strictken on the soddaine with a thunder bolte and his house burn to ashes with the lightening Tarquinius Prtscus also the 5. King of Rome was sitting at dinner when he least dreamed of death choaked with the boane of a fish and died thereof that night all which may well witnesse how shorte and howe vncerteine the life of mā is The Poets haue preatily fained that there are three sisters whome Seneca called the Destinies Cic. Lib. de natura deor and Cicero supposed to be the daughters of Herebus and Nox whome they affirme to be very much busied about the life of man their names are Clotho Clotho colū gestat Lachesis irahit Atropos occai Lachesis and Atropos the first doth weaue the threede of life the second doth lengthen it a little and the last doth cleane cut it of but the last of the three hath the quickest hande in her woorkes for vvhat the other two doe frame for a time that she doth vndoe in the moment of time and the threede of life though it should bee somewhat longe in spinning yet it is cut of in the twinckling of an eie and vvhen vve thinke it is stron gest then commeth Atropos vnawares to perfourme and playe her parte Death hath also three principall servauntes vvhich he imployeth much and often about this busines and they as diligently put in execution and perfourme what he commaundeth for the shortening and soone cutting of of the life of man vvhose names as casualty infirmity and olde age gaue sufficient proofe and testimony that shorte oftentimes and most vncertaine is the life of man what accoumpt we should make of it and what man is in the fruition thereof CHAP. 7. The Consideration vvhat thou art in the fruition of so painfull a life THis Consideratiō concerning mans life is of the grievous paines miserable torments which very often and most commonly do accompany thy selfe as Sicknes in thy body Sorovves and passions of the minds the Vakndnesse of friendes the Envie of enemies the Deceipte of flatterers and other vvorldely Mishappes vvhich breede such multitudes of miseries as are almost vnpossible to bee named and very harde and painfull with patience to be endured And first for the grievous paines that Sicknesse breedeth and bringeth vnto the body we see and daily experience telleth vs that many men are so tormented therewith that their whole life from the cradle to the graue is but the drawing of an everfainting breath and as it were a lingring death or rather a painfull life more grievous then death it selfe As the fish Clupea which when the moone increaseth is white and when it doth decrease becommeth blacke grovving to any greatnesse killeth himselfe for the paines of those prickles that come out of his owne sides so men possessed and payed with sicknes doe chaunge both colour and complexion as Clupea doth or as the moone waxeth and waneth and vvhen they grovv to any yeares the prickles of their paines is the cause of their death If vve shoulde seeke for examples to shewe how that many men haue beene mightily tormented with sicknesse vve might easily find see an endles sea of instaunces to confirme this conclusion wherein we vvill not wade much to wearie the Reader but rather referre him to consider of the cruell experiment that poore miserable men doe make thereof who pining with continuall sicknesse languish all their liues long from their mothers breastes till they bee borne of foure and brought to their last and longe home onely and for a taste herein I will set before him a fevve of many such examples as the holy scriptures offer vnto vs. Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan 2. Sam 4.4 Math. 9. the sonne of Saule was lame of both his legges and ledde a lingring languishing life all his daies Iïrus daughter vvasted vvith sicknesse and the vvoman of Canaans daughter vexed with a Devill had ended their daies vvith dolour and griefe if CHRIST at the humble suite and petition of their parentes Mar. 5. had not shewed mercy vnto both Marke maketh mention of a miserable