Oftbebles-ghee:Ts; 809 neffeconfi(leth in the fruitionof our fummumbouum, and only ioyes fupreme good, which when wee enjoy, wee-canwaes.t -no- wítheut the fru- thing, andwantinghim, can neuer be fatisfied withalother ¡Dion oiGod g ood. For theheart and mindofmanisoffucklareca a `ouldnutAaal¿e citie that nothing can fill it but hee who being infinite hi or perAgo , bdidka,Qie, fira make it.And becaufeGod alone is curfummnmbonem, and the fupreme end of all our indeauours and. delires therefore if wefhould inioyal the world,and could engroffe all the pleafures ofheauen andearth, wee fthouldnot reftfa- tisfied and contented, becaufe wee haue not attained vnto our end, and that chiefe and fuprerne good at which wee naturallyaime in our delires. Againe, teeing none areblef fed, but thole whoareperfetUly fatisfied andcontented, and none thus fatisfied, but they who enioy God, their fummnm bonum,w ho,ashe froth them from all euill, foall) he reple- nifheththem withall-good ; thereforewithout this fruition ofGod,though we fhould haue ncuer fo muchgood,yet we íhouldnot attaitaevnto full happineffe and felicity. Soone faith, thatwhatlòcuer isleffe then God, though wee fhould Augufl.decog. receiue it for our reward, wee ihouldyet delire more, and mt. vera vita. they who haue not licit defresfatis6ed, haue not attained cap47. vntofitlneffeofiny.And there fot e he concludeth in anoiher .Aicqu;d nebir place; thatw'harfoeuer is tefept =hen.Gcd is abfent is not ad eft prate. P P' Deam non e(t Tweet and comfortable ; and that beedid not defire:any,or dalce. tvaluneus alltho!e thingswhich Godbath giuen,vnlcffe he whogane oneniaquede- thcm,giuehtmfelfeallo. So that wee may faywithDAuid.. nendue when*have linheauenbet thee ?arcil haeede/rrednorern the 'Ili fdedquio eerth'evtls' ihee:and conclude withhim, that they are /reue4i up,inPfal.Fs bleffed, not who aboundwith worldly plentie and profperi Pra1.7;.ss. ty, but who taue lehouah-tobe theirGod. l lal 144. cf. 'MmIll 2 CrtARy
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