4x4 no worldly thing,.cannotfatisfle orórivgcontentment. 1dn'ce10.37. kingdome, but contended which among them thould haue prioritie and chiclepreeminence: whereas the molt meane aduancement in that heauenly happines,isa much moreglo- rious preferment, then to be a perpetual! Monarch ofthe whole world. By all which it appeareth, that after we haue once drunke ofthis poifonofambition, our inward burning heate.maketh ourthirf fovnquenchable, that we than foo- net burn thenref fatisfied. And therefore theProphet fitly compareth this thirfing after worldly honors, to the third ofdrunkards; for as their firli cups ferue to quench their thirfiand fatisfie nature, but thofe which follow, inWifdly inflaming them, do renue and increafe their appetite, till at ha it grow infatiable: fo whereas thofe men might haue relied fatisfiedand conrented,whentheir honors and prefer. ments were moderat, now hauing by additionofmore mat- ter inflamed their hearts with the fire ofambition, nothing . will tuffice, but their delires (as the fame Prophet fpeaketh) being inlarged like the gulfeofhel,and thevnfatiable iawes ofdeath, can no morebe fatisfied then either ofthem; nei. they doe theyewer thinke whence theyafcended,but onely whither they are purpofed to clime; nor euer markehow many theyhaue.outrunnein this race ofhonor, but onlyob. ferue howmany areHill before them. 63.Sci Solikewife there isnofatietieorcontent inriches, ifonce That there irne men begin to let their hearts upon them, for though theco- fatietieorcon- uetousman bathin euery ones i udgement fartoomuch, yet use in riches. inhis owne he hath not enough, though in others conceit hefeemeth to abound, yet to himfelfe he feemeth towant : well may he fill his chefs,butnot his mind ; and former may heby opprefion make thoufands poore, thenmake his own mind richwith content; for couetoufneufe maybring riches, but not rea,and emptie others, but not fill it idle, likePha- raohs leane kine which deuoured the fat ones, and yet them- felues were in.neuer the better liking: yea though it were poilible for couetous men to emptie the Weflerne parts of gold andGluer,and theEauofpearles,yet all this wouldnot rep?enifh their hearts emptineffe : neither can riches euer king contentto themind,vnleffe itbring it fullto them;but cha
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