352 On the Excellency of the Soul. is the fame : So the things of this world , wee may raife them up very high by our fancies, but there is na more re- al good in them than there was before, they are but sha- dows and though a mans shadow bee longer or !honer yet a man grows not longer and fhorter with his thadow ; fo, though a mans eftate bee more or lets , yet his happi- nefs doth not grow more or lets according to his elate ; therefore hill, what doth it profit a man if hee gains the world ? why bee gains a f hadow, hee gains that that hath nothing in it, bee gains a fancy, a dream, and bee lofes his foul for all this. Seventhly, Further, fuppofe there were fome reality, yet there is nothing that can fatisfie the heart, 1fa. sf. Why do you lay out your stony for that that is not bread and- for that that fati, fies not? Onely Grace is that that fatisfies the foul ; thefe things have fo much mud at the bottom, that you cannot have a full draught of them. - -- And betides, there is a curie of God upon them, that they thould not fatisfie; yea God arhfo fashioned the hearts of the children of men, that they (hall never bee fatisfied with thefe things : And the eager delire after thefe things, comes from a great diflemper ; juft as Maids and Women that have green- ficknetles, or that long; you (hall have 'them long for coals, it may bee, and dirt, 'and fo green fruit,: but though they long for it, yet this cannot fatisfie them, why,d ecaufe it is but trafh : So the heart of a man or Woman that. longs for the things of this world, why it is in a diftemper, as one that longs to feed'upondirt, they t May feed upon them, but ne- ver bee'fatisfied with them. highthlvy, Vet further how can the gain of the world `,makeup,the lots of any fpiritual good? for one that goes a.n in wales of loofenefs, that foul, whatever hee gets in the world, bee bath ït without God, God in his ordinary providence may call it in; but bée hash it without the blef- fing of Gat with it.: What if a man had never fuch fine 'flowers in a Gardën, if the Sun should never fhine upon them ? truly fo it is w.th many wicked men, they have brave and
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