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 (7) a£<>i<MHe downfall and.Jtlie Pre^tes decay vhen rcformation'was alive, and ttligion in tafte and fafhion, the ptople during the Sabbath were all packed up in clofets and thei» chil4»«n kept yiixhm daori, when every city appeared a» • fatv&uary, nothing W be heard in the ftrects but tbe^cand prayer oa the light hand, and the melodipnsfouad of plalms on the lek. Now the days of counting, fevifeiog, riding of horfes, anS the found the mid coach. c< me ; fut eiy there will be trade now, and none wiH mif» profpenty when every day is a fair. I add no mote cn th» head, butAnother let everygrievance one claimofa the rightfemale to hisoffencers own fet time, &e. 1 cannot omit, which attacks mensfancy and is the cavde ofhis fall, I mean flighters who has got a little of the means i ef mammon, more filver than fenfe, more gold than ‘ good nature, haughtinefefor humility, value themfelves as a treafnre i.'coWpjfyhenhble, their beads and hearts of Ophir gold,, their hips of fdver, and their whole body as fet about with precious ftoass, great and many are the congtiefles of their courlihip, and the folemnizing their marriage is likewar.the conclu&on of a peace aftec pfa bloady and tedious And what is fh> after all, yea her poor penny will. never be exhaufkl it muft he laid out m lunacy and lazinefs, fhc muft tiae fine teas and the 4»th«r thing ; when pregnancy and the fpuing of porrich approaches then fbc prophecies of her .death; as fty^hatebes life, ^e embraces iaziuefs; O the bed, th« bed, nothing like the bed for a had wrif^j her body beAunes as parboil’d being fa bed-ridden* this rots their children ia ! the brewing, and buries them in the bringing up, yea fome mothers are fb beaftlyiySS to water the bed and blame the child therefore; yet fuch lazy wives hve long, and their children foon die ; their-f^r fetched feigned ficknefs foon render the hv/hand fo the fubHfticc of one fixpeocc, be becomes poor and hen peckt under fu9h pettiest government. Bjrt when L Janet was a Janet and had the judgment af my own toulc my hufbaud was thrice happy? £