Oatworldly things cannotfatisfie or bring contentment. .121 monilrous births, aberrations, and corruptions of nature, which were betterffrangled then nourifhed, infatiabledif- cafes and dropfics ofthe foule,which torment with fulneffe, and are foonefl cured by longer]:abflinence. But this infi:áiciencie in worldly vanities to fatisfie the §.Seas. mind and giue contentment, will more cleerelyappeare,ifrbe t /bjficiex- we wouldmakevieofour owne experience,andlet thembe- a-y ojmnrtdly forevs as examples who haue moil abounded with them. tontgen oeiva P eostext,fhemeá For howmany doe wedaily feeaduanced to the highefl ho- byexamples. nors,aboundingwith riches,and wallowing themfelues in al worldly delights, who areas vnfatisfied and farre from con- tentment, as thole who moll want them?Howmany fhall we obferue confirming their daiesin inelancholick pallions, and humorous difcontent, whom the world hath enriched withhis brll meanes tomake them happie ? howmany are there who are heauie, forrowfull, and euer complaining:; who if they were asked cannot tell what they want, as thoughtheywere preffeddowne with the waight of their ownfelicity,and thought themfeluesvnhappie,becaufe they hauedrunke fodeepcly of the worlds happineffe ? And this commeth to paffebecaufe thisfun-thineof worldly profpe- rity doth mollifie and effeminate the mind, making it foo- lifhly wanton,and through wantonnes wayward&peeuifh; and through this froward waiwardnes, hardlypleafedwith all the worlds heft fauours, and difcontented when theleafI occurrent croffeth their will,or but theleafl appearance of euill looketh towards them. Herein like vnto:foolifhchil- dren,who beingbrought vpunder feuerer difcipline,&con- tinually refirained of their will, doe patiently endure it, though they are denied neceffaries, and aremuch affe6led and ouerioyed when they hauea little liberty, or Come(mall fauour vouchfafed them from their gouernours whereas ifthey be cockered by their parents, and haue in all things their wils andvain humours fatisfied, theygrow in a while fo wanton,and through wantonneffe fo wayward, that no. thingwill pleafethem,or keepe them from crying andcom- plaining butaremuch more froward in their fulneffe, and difcontented in the fruition of all that they can delve; E e 3 then
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