3. And indeed the Pleasures of Life are usually embittered with so much pain, that to a great part of the World doth seem to exceed them: The Vanity and Vexation is so great and grievous, as the pleasure seldom countervaileth. It's true that Nature desireth Life even under Sufferings that are but tolerable, rather than to die: But that is not so much from the sensible Pleasure of life, as from mere Natural Inclination; which God hath laid so deep that free will hath not full power against it. As before I said, that the Body of Man is such a thing, that could we see through the Skin (as men may look through a Glass Hive upon the Bees) and see all the parts and motion, the filth and excrements that are in it, the Soul would hardly be willing to actuate, love and cherish such a mass of unclean matter, and to dwell in such a loathsome place, unless God had necessitated it by Nature (deeper than Reason or sense) to such a Love, and such a labour by the Pondus or Spring of Inclination: Even as the Cow would not else lick the unclean Calf, nor Women themselves be at so much labour and trouble with their Children, while there is little of them to be pleasant, but uncleanness, and crying, and helpless impatience to make them wearisome, had not necessitating Inclination done more hereto than any other sense or reason: Even so I now say of the pleasure of Living, that the sorrows are so much greater to Multitudes than the sensible delight, that life would not be so commonly ⟨p. 85⟩chosen and endured under so much trouble, were not men determined thereto by Natural necessitating Inclination; (or deterred from Death by the fears of misery to the separated Soul;) And yet all this kept not some counted the best and wisest of the Heathens, from taking it for the Valour and Wisdom of a Man to make away his life in time of extremity, and from making this the great answer to them that grudge at God, for making their lives so miserable [If the misery be greater than the good of life, Why dost thou not end it? Thou mayest do that when thou wilt.]
3. And indeed the Pleasures of Life are usually embittered with so much pain, that to a great part of the World doth seem to exceed them: The Vanity and Vexation is so great and grievous, as the pleasure seldom countervaileth. It's true that Nature desireth Life even under Sufferings that are but tolerable, rather than to die: But that is not so much from the sensible Pleasure of life, as from meer Natural Inclination; which God hath laid so deep that free will hath not full power against it. As before I said, that the Body of Man is such a thing, that could we see through the Skin (as men may look through a Glass Hive upon the Bees) and see all the parts and motion, the filth and excrements that are in it, the Soul would hardly be willing to actuate, love and cherish such a mass of unclean matter, and to dwell in such a loathsom place, unless God had necessitated it by Nature (deeper than Reason or sense) to such a Love, and such a labour by the Pondus or Spring of Inclination: Even as the Cow would not else lick the unclean Calf, nor Women themselves be at so much labour and trouble with their Children, while there is little of them to be pleasant, but uncleanness, and crying, and helpless impatiency to make them wearisom, had not necessitating Inclination done more hereto than any other sense or reason: Even so I now say of the pleasure of Living, that the sorrows are so much greater to Multitudes than the sensible delight, that life would not be so commonly ⟨p. 85⟩chosen and endured under so much trouble, were not men determined thereto by Natural necessitating Inclination; (or deterred from Death by the fears of misery to the separated Soul;) And yet all this kept not some counted the best and wisest of the Heathens, from taking it for the Valour and Wisdom of a Man to make away his life in time of extremity, and from making this the great answer to them that grudge at God, for making their lives so miserable [If the misery be greater than the good of life, Why dost thou not end it? Thou maist do that when thou wilt.]
