The truly blessed man

2. Those sorrows may be referred to three heads: And how many are there ranged under each of these? viz. Temporal, Spiritual and Eternal. If these three brigades were drawn up in order, what a formidable army would they make? But I shall only touch at them.

1. All Temporal Sorrows belong to them. And these are the least and most inconsiderable, though for the present the most sensible. By these I understand all those evils which the outward man is exposed to in this life: and they are so many, that we can hardly tell where to begin, or where to leave of. There are the troubles to which the Body it self is exposed, which is by Sin become a sink of all diseases, sicknesses, languishings, pains and torments; and the most skilful Physicians are at a loss to number up the many ails that mans body is exposed unto: they all wait upon the Sinner; pining sicknesses, burning fevers, faintness, strong pains, besides violent casualties. There are sorrows in mens Estates, which also bring misery upon men from without; sore disappointments in their labours, whence, poverty, straits, losses, pinching them with hunger, thirst, nakedness. Sorrows also from one another, in name, in estate, in body, by reproaches, depredations, imprisonments, stripes, all sorts of tortures, Wars, Rapes, Depopulations, Bereavements of dearest Comforts Sorrows in the Providences that pass over them, bringing Blastings, Mildews, Epidemical plagues, wasting all before them; and all these the leaders to, and which do at length end in a bodily death, which, though it puts an end to all the rest, yet is it self a terrible thing, and called the King of Terrors, in that it is so much against the natural inclination in man to part with his life; and he chooseth rather to undergo a great deal of sorrow in it, than to have that put to an end, by the dissolution of nature, ⟨p. 521⟩and separation of Soul and Body. The Contemplation of this very part of mans misery, hath made mere Heathen to lament the unhappy state that is befallen him, and determine that man and miserable are become terms convertible; and yet if this were all, it were but little compared with that which is yet behind. Hence,