troubled with fufpedfed evils, that he cannot take comfort in kj?pQ<ffi®idgwd&.;p'..,' u;.,Tilsq fcis ; ik'n> j«r» • } \ Hence Obferve: onfindsn i; rfj cfiv3 fbt ,, ^iift^hatuhMnehfHoe.ednnfitfntisft(,sonly is fulnefs to us. A plan may wander about , in hjs thoughts for bread, when he hath bread enougfvabout him, and fay hefliall.be undone, and diea, beggar ,when he hath abundance. A covetous manU an\unfatiabhgu}f,\ Hionly is.well who hath .enough, & he,if heft who hath(in temporal.s}the haft enough! But a covetous man hath not enough,though he hath more than enough 8c much more than needs, healwaysdreams of dearths,&fbf- -pects the Earth will be barren^-: with thefe fears he pines,yea, martyrs himfelf, and is not at all enriched with all his riches; he hath fufficient to maintain twenty, yet is told by his unbelief, that he hath not fufficiencie for one. This is vanity and vexation of fpirity The life of man doth not confiil in what he bath, butirv what he is, and hopes to be t his life doth not coniift in.abundance;, either forthe continuance of it, or for the comfort of it. A man doth not live momdays,. nor more cheerfully aby day, becaufe he lives plentifully. The Creature were a God to u s , if it could do, this to us ;■ ;but this’cGod hath referved' in his own hands (how much foever of the Creature he gives out ) that we may know our dependatice on him. p ! ■ w i gs . i ■ .. m 4 Secondly Oblervc: ad . ui4 t^jualopi , ,2,o,at imaginary wants.,f 'ur.tt have an unquiet:fpirit ift ihe midft o-f our-,ittjoyments^it mate ajflfflive than tobe,in real want: The word worldly povertyas to be poor when we are richj as it is the excellence of our fpiritual eftate tohepoor in fpirit, in oipgreated fpiritual plenty, to be little or nothing in our own eyes, when we have a great dock of Grace : So it is the mifery of our.temporal edate to be thus poor in fpirit, when we have plenty in the Furie, td fay we have little or nothing, when we have a great dock of worldly goods. 'Z.opharconcludes of the Hypocrite (Chap. 2 0 .l i t ) In the \ fulnefs of hit fufficiencie hepall,he infreights which may be underdoojj,either firft,That when he istnlljtrpubks (Hall"empty him ; or fecondly , That while hi? fulnefs continues,even in his fulled fulnefs, he fhall live, as if he were indeed as empty ofwealth,as he is of goodnefs, always fpendinghimftlf with feats H 4 .Chap.15. uinSxpofitioMpMnthe.Bodk^ of, JsQ'B. . yerfaj.'
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