?batwordly thingsdonotfatisfieorbring contentment. 'Zaneh.inE. diuers figures, for the world is round, and the heart three pheCç. cornered; and atrianglecannotbe filledwith a circle It is therefore theLord alone that can fatisfie this infatiable hart CapacemDei ofman; for being createdof a fpirituall fubftance, andac_ ga squid yea cording to Gods image and that to this end,that it mightbe moms ell Huss a fit temple for his hol f irit there isnothing leffe thë God imptebit. P y P á Bcrnard.de. can fill and fattftìe it. And therefore that foule which feeketh dam in mac. fullcontentment in any thing fauingGod, is likethofevn_ 19 cleane fpirits which lecke for ref/ but find none: yea it is Matth.iz. not onely fruftrate ofall fruit ofit Iabour, but findeth that Etclefz.rr. which it feekethnot; that is, much difquietnelTe and vexa- tion offpirit. There worldly vanities being vnto themlike wind ro the'bodywinch puftéth vp, but nourifheth not ; tor- menteth,but not fatisfieth.Whereasonthe other fide, heein whofe heart God lodgethand dwelleth byhis holyfpirit, is throughly fiiled,and fully fatisfied; and though it fhould en- largeit deliresbeyond thebounds ofthe higheftheauen,yet fhould no part thereof beemptie and vnreplenifhed; for as Afa1.37.4. thePlalmill tellethvs,ifwedc1iht in the Lord, he millgiuevs our hearts de/ire; and rather then it fhould not be fatiffiedhe ?Timis Andrus willgiuevs himfelfe, whomwho fo enioyeth canwantno- eft "¡DC" thing. And therefore we fhould not fet our hearts vponthefe sonfa.(ficie, worldly thingswhich cannot fatisfie vs but vpon the Lord, CoenaDomi. whole fruition bringeth full contentment. And becaufe(as ni term.7. onefaith) no man poffefhethGod, but hewho is firl}pol ef- sedquon.iam fedof him,letvs become apoffeflionvnto God,that he may . nemaaDrum becotnea poffellionvntovs ; andifwee hauehim wee(hall p if f haue enough : for what can fuffice him whom the infinite qua pofidetur a abeo,fìmasnos Creatorcannot fatisfie? Another reafonofthis vnfatiablenes ipfafa1PiVsi ofrnansmindwith thefeworldlyvanities, maybee their dif- joØej7Zo,sj.ef ference in nature, in that it is heauenly and fpirituall,and nobis pofif there earthlyand cor orall s in regard whereof therecanbee &c.Augufi.de noproportion betweenethem ; and therefore as it is impof- fatutac.docu- fible toreplenifh acorporal( emptineffewith afpiritual! fob- tncn.cap.y. fiance, asa theft with vertues,or the flomacke withwife- dome ; fo is it nomore pofliibleto fill a fpirituall emptineffe with abodilyfobftance, as the foule and mind of manwith earthly treafures, or worldly preferments. And therefore when
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