224 Generali ä'ireliionsfo-r a ofour fcafuall corruption, beingonceonfooteafter worldly pleafures,aad fwellingbya continual]. infufion ofhellifhpoy- ion, loth with an impetuous headfirongr efle, beare and breakedowne all bonds andbankes of irWeracion and flint, and will never bereftrained from its unfatiable rage, ifGod helpe reot,untill it be ívvallowedup in the bottomleffe gulfe of inifery and horrour n for it is the native propertie, or rather, - poyfon ofinordinate affc&ion, not onely todrinke deepe oftinfail delights, but tocarroufe, to bedrunke ; nay,.' toadde unquenchable thirfi unto drunkenneffe,fucking them in with frefh fiapply ofendleífe greedineffe, as the Honk- leach corrupt blood, till it buril againe. a. That the infi- nite defineof the fouleconfined to a creature, orany world- ly comfort, is pained and pinched, as a foote wedged in a finitefhooe; it being no competent or proportionable La tisfa&ion to its cape&anionand large capacity. Hence it is, that giveRome to Cafar, as they fay, and hee will ambitioufly purfue the Soveraigntie of the wholeearth.. Let Alexander conquer the world, and hee will askeformoc: let thofe be. fubdued, hee would climbe upthe 1lairsofhis vafledeilires towards the flames : ifhe could alpine thither, bee would rqpnfatiatalri_ peepe beyond the heavens, &c. No area unto mans fouie, iifrs igncáaodr ii but inGods eternallrefl. 3 That therebein no proportion &certaater- betweene fpirit andbodies ; thou mayett as well undertake nitas.. 4úguJt, to fill abaggewithwifedome,a theft with vertue; as thineim- iiaortalI foule, with gold, h iver, riches, high roomes, this wholemateriali world, or any earthly thing. Se&Ecclef. 5. io. 4. I fay, befides theft three caufes of unfatisfiablenefife, God himfelfe cloth tufilyput that property and poyfon into all worldly things doted upon, and defined immoderately, that they (hall plague the heart that purities them; by fil- ling it Dill with a furious and frefhfupply ofmore greedi bAvarîtiainfatia.nef1'e,longings, jealoufies, and many miferable difcontent= uais ebrietas. Et tents : fo that they become unto it as drinke unto a bdrun- ficut ebrii, quanto plusvinüngn gi_ tant,tantò magisad fitim inflanirnantur:fic& ü}iquoq; infaniambane indomitánunquam fifterepoi- funt,fedquantòmagis fuas opes augeti viarnt,tanto& concupifceutiá magis flagrant. Ncque antea à peliitnoappetitehoc abfiftuntdoncc`itiipfummalisia profundúdercendcrint .Chryf.Hom: a3.1nGen. kart"
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