Ofthe excellency of contentment,& the means to obtain it. 463 Finally, if we would haue fiiffii. iencieofpleafure, it is not 4.Sec.7. tobe found in outward things, which only tatiate andneuer That content- fatisfie, but in the inward contentation ofthemind, which nnntinptea- wemay p tuafily attaine vnto,ifwe change ourcarnal! delights reto ) i a'er r had,nnt into I irill ycin g in God, in the fruition ofhis f tu- iri by nut iptying than, hat by e- . all graces, and inour aflitrance ofhis heauenlyboyes; for this fltarvrng our willmake our hearts Co inwardly cheerefull, that we fhallappebtes. take pleafure in all outward things, not onely fuchas the world delighteth in, but alo in thofe which are tediousand troublef me voto them : for this inwardpleafure will turne our labours into recreations,and our forrowes into ioy,ina- king vs to bemetric and reinyce, not onely in worldlypro- fperitie,bur alto in tribulatiô,as the Apofile teachethvs,both byhis a doálrine and b example: and this is that ioy, which''Rom.ç.;; asourSauiourChrifl faith, is c full, and therefore fatisfieth b Ad.16.2.ç.. vs,andpermanent,and therefore can neuer be taken from vs. Z.0 or.7.4. But tfbetides this fpirituall ioy, we would be fatisfied with c toh.t 5.1. worldlypleafures, we mull not looke for this fuficiencie in out .i things,but in ourminds,not by multiplying our de. lights,butby refrainingour appetites: for otherwife well may we beglutted, but neuer contented with worldly plea- fures, like thearch-epicurehimtelfe ,whoconfetfed that loa Epicurus apud thing coflly delicates,he contented himfelfe to feed onbread Stobçum.lib.t. and water, not becaufe hewaswearie ofhis dainty cates, fo erm.t7. much as ofthedifcommodities which he felt whe he had fur- Stobæu taco m tad ,lib.to . fetted on them:and thusthe diuine Heathen bridled hisvo- term.t7. luptuous concupifcence, by acculloming it to want that which it moll defied, when as being athiril,he.would often drawwaterout ofhis well, andpowre it out againewithout drinking, vntill he had fo mattered himfelfe, thathee could quenchhisthirli with a moderate and well-ruled appetite: andif wewould thus limit our delires, and curbe in our vn- fatiable voluptuoufhes,ifwe wouldliue to nature,and not to lufi, and be ruledby reafon, and not opinion, theta would a few pleafures fatisfie vs, andbeingfatisficd we íhould want nothing. And thus haue I (hewed that theonlymcanesofattaining g,Seci,$: . veto fufficiencie 'ofoutward things, is by inward content- The Pt meat. .
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