Chap. zo. An Expofition -upon the Books of j O B. Verf. 20. 543 (peaks ) ` The y feeleno quietcrrfJe in their belt'. So the Tygurine Non fenriet in tranflation renders it excellently ; The man fcrapcs together venire juo quid o ulenttu tt huge heaps ofwealth, but yet he fliall notfnde that he is wealthy. f He (hall not-at all feele -his wealth whenhe bath all this. Hence. obferve The defire of a wickedman is neverfull, howfull foevar his egate is. He bath a moral! belly which nothing can fill; though his naturall belly be filled.( ?rov. 13. z5. ) The righteous eateth to the fatisfying ofhis fotele. 'Tis poflible a righteous man may not have enough toeate for the fatisfyingofhis body, he may rife a hungry from .his dinner,he may rife with an appetite, becaufe he: path not enough ; yet if he bath but a little, a morfell ofbread, fallet ofgreene herbs, when ever he cates, he eats to the fatif- lying of his foule, that is, he bleffeth God though he have but a little, and is content : though his hunger be hardly fatisfied, yet his foule is plentifully fatisfied. But, as for the wicked man (faith Solomon there) The belly ofthe wicked 'hall want. I con- ceive, belly in that place of the Proverbs is tobe underflood as here in rob. The puniíhrnent which is ordinarily inflit`tedupon wicked men, is not want in their purfes, but want in their fpi- rits ; their hearts are in want, while their hou'es abound. As it is better fo farre caller for a man to fill his belly then his eye. Here in the Text the covetous mans belly is his eye, nothingof this world can fill that, and yet he neither dcfires norendea- vours to have it filled with any thing but the world. Hence, when he is at his higheft food and feafling (feeing he bath no- thing to feed his fpirit with, not a dìffi for his foule) hedoth Pwarsrurn but increafe, not a eafe his foules appetite; creatures can no PP PP° non eq wereali morequench that thirft than woodcan quench and extinguifh qaa natura zr,. fire. For as the moralift telieth us, The .thirft ofcovetous men digentiáfed is not fromwant, but froth a difeafe And that defire which m`rbus proceeds from a difeafe, andnot from want, is mot but BP addt eóirt provoked by.whatit receives, fo that whatfoever you bellow ,tfitar,quic. upon fuch' a man is not the end of his former longings, but a quid iui con. f ap to new and freth ones. Whatcan appeafe define, when de- 1efleris non fns fire is a difeafe? Labour to get the difeafe the diftemper that is ertt ` "p'djt4E jedgrades_ in your defires cured, and the wants whichyour defires move sell. de Co+..; about--fol..
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