468 O f the manes toohtaeneconrentatìen. breake out into impatiencie,becaufe fomething we defire is withheld from vs; yea teeing the Lord keepeth nothing from vs, but fuch thingsas heknoweth wouldbe tentations vnto finne, let vs glorie in thefe wants, and giue thanks to God,thatwe haue notmore gifts thengrace to vfe them,nor receiued abuithen aboue our ftrength. §.Seal. r o. Yeawill force fay,but I fee others whóGod louethabound The reafons in honours riches anddelights, who notwithftandingferue why theLord God faithfully, and imploy thefe gifts which theyhaue re- hu tboorld1l ceiued,totheglory of him from whom theyhauereceiued of bis children them ; and whymight not I alfoenioying them be bettered and not to and not hurt by themas well as they? I anfwere, that all are gibers. not ofthe like nature and temper, but as wee fay,fo many men, fo manyminds; by reafonwherofit commeth topaffe, that ones food is anothers poyfon, one mans railing is ano- thers ruine, and that which is molt profitable for this man, is for another moll pernicious. There is no wife phyfition gi- ueth the famephyficke to all patients,or in the fame propor- tion ; but he fitteth it in quantitie and quality to eueryones, neede, giuing one pils to purge him, another cordials tore- fiore him ; one muff bee launched,anothermuft bee healed; onemull haue fauces to quickenhis appetite, anothermuft faft,andbe cured by abftinence. Neither is there any wife houfholder that particularly knowing the condition of his familie, will prouide for,and feedall with like food,or with equal' quantity; for one loueth that whichanotherloatheth, and this man arifeth hungrie with that allowance, which would tank another tofurfet with exceflè. And doeft thou .denie untoGod that liberty ofdifpofing vntoeuery one that which Intl befitteth them, when as thou alloweft it vnto men? Shall the phyfition order his patients ashee plealeth, who oftenfaileth in skill,and fometime infaithf.ilneffe;and (hallnot theLordbe allowed to purgeor re(lore, wound or bindvp,cautherize or heale,as hee knoweth moil fitting for bis feuerall patients, feeing hee can neither erreinknow- ledge,norfailein lone ? Shall the houfholder haue leaue to difpofeofhis owne goods in his owne family,who rrotwith- /landingmaybe short in difcretion, or partiallin affe&ion; and
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