rhat worldly thingsdoenotfatis/leorbring contentment. 4t9 whenwe feedour hungryfoules with this vnnaturalll food, it doth not fatisfie our appetite, but rather encreafeth our hunger.W hereas ifwe feed themwith fpirituall food which is oflike fubflance vnto themfelues,they will thereby bee nouri4ud; and ifwehunger after the breadof life, and dc- firetoreplenith ouremptie foules withChriVcsrighteoufises, mar4.6. weeareby him pronounced bleffed, becaufe wee lhall bee throughly fatisfied. Finally, ourappetites are vnfatiable, not throughany neceflity which we haueofearthly abundance, but through vnlimited and vnnaturall greedineffe; for in Ncce/feeñin refpeól ofvfe, nature is content with á little, as well as with immenfumex- much ; but when the foule being ficke ofworldly concupi- eat aapidnar nataraiens fecnce, bath oncepaffedthe limits ofnature, whereby thefe raodumtrart things are meafured veto vs, according to neceflity and lift, ilia caim profit, the defires thereof become endleffe and infinite, babelfine"; la- and areby acceffe ofthefevanitiesrather encreafed then di- um.inania ér minithed. For being applied to the mind to cure it ofthis exI`heTmiworta vnfatiable greedineffe, like w'eake and ouer gentle medi- cines, they onely flirre the humours ofourcorrupt concupi- epif.39. fcence,wherby we become more dangerouflie ficke then we were before, but doe not at all purge and free vs from them. Let vs not thereforefoolifhly imagine thatourmindscan 4.Set7.4.. befatisfied and filled with thefe worldly vanities, nor gree- That it isgreat dilie affcól and feeke after agreater meafure,when as we aref°llieWake not fitßïeedwitha leffe,fuppofing that the acceffe ofquan- éarehty abua. title maybring contentment; fecing the hunger which wee dance. feede inour hearts proceedeth notfrom the want ofearrhlie abundance ; but becaufe it is vnnaturall nourithment for the mind ofman, fo that it canno more fatisfie our foules hunger, then it can fatisfie our bodies to feede vpon the wind. And therefore as hisfollie were ridiculous,whobeing an hungred fhould feeke to fatisfie his appetite bygaping after the wind; and finding that a leffer gale would not fuf- fice, fhould runneto the wind, millhill to receiuea greater: / fo no leffefoolifhare thofe worldlymen, who finding their hearts emptie, and tormented with the hunger of greedie coucupifcence,doe thinke to flay their appetite by feeding E e z upon
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