Thatworldly things c rnnotfarisfreor bringcontentment. 425 themore mans droplie hart drinketh ofthis golden fireame, the moreit is inflamed with vnfatiable thirfi. So Salomon tel- leth vs that there is no end ofcouetoufnes : for (ashe faith) he who is infeaed therewith,coueteth euermoregreedily ; fo Prousr.a6. elfewhere, he that louethfileser(hallnot befttisfiedwith (Auer, EccleL 5.9. and he that loueth riches (hall bewithout thefruit thereof. An example hereof we haue in s4chab, who was not fatisfied 1King.21. with y riches ofa kingdome,but greedily coueteth Nabotbt vineyard, taking no ioy in all thathe had, becaufe his poore neighbour hadthac.whichpleafedhim: and in therichmatt in the Gofpell, who had filled all hisbarnes,but not his hart, and thereforehe refolueth to inlarge them, that theymight befomewhatproportionableto his mind; a thing foolifh, becaufe impoflible; for though they had been neuerfolarge and full,yet the capacitie ofthe heart beingfarregreater, he wouldBill haue found it emptieand vnfatisfied. It is true indeed, that thefe worldly richespromife con-§.Sail.$. tentment, and the heart ofthe couetousman deceiuing him, That worldly maketh him belecue,thatwhen hehach filled fuch abag,and riche, promife raifed his flare tofuch aproportion, whenhe is become ma- Contentment, firer of fuchanhoufe and bath purchafedfuchlands or lord- but Cannotrea- F rt,andncrea- (hips, it will thenrefi fatisfied and contented; whereas ha-fors why. uing attained votohis delires, hisgreedie appetitegroweth fafier vpon him then hiswealth; andall that.he addeth tohis eflate is but fuellto encreafe the flame and furie ofhis concu- pifcence;forwhenhebathwhathewould, he hathnot that cumbábetquod he nowwilleth; but the obtaining ofone with is the begin- voluit,non ha ping ofanother, and when he bathheapedall he can toge- bet quad volt. thee, it putteth notan end to his concu ifcencebutonl fer_erejcentemja Y quitucaura pe- ueth as adegreeor fiep, whereby it mayafccndhigher. And eun male- this commeth topaffe partly becaufe riches are vaine, and rum¢, fames I therefore fill not; partly becaufe they are not the naturall multa perenti- food ofthe foule, and therefore cannot fatisfieit; and partly b ustia. fu at in that the delire andappetite ofmans heart, hauing paffed the naturall bounds ofnecelíitie and vfe, becommeth fovn- 03.16. fatiable that nothing maylisilice it: for thatwhich isabun-Paramel!luxu- dantvntonature, is too littlefor luxurioufneffe andgreedie ric gycdt.Se auarice. And from this vnfatiable delire offill having more nec. de vita couctouf- beta.caps;.,
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