Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

? batwordly things donotfatisfieor bring contentment. 'Zaneh.in E. diuers figures, for the world is round, and the heart three pheCç. cornered; and atrianglecannot be filled with a circle It is therefore theLord alone that can fatisfie this infatiable hart Capacem Dei of man; for being created of a fpirituall fubftance, and ac_ ga squid yea cording to Gods image and that to this end,that it might be moms ell Huss a fit temple for his hol f irit there is nothing leffe thë God imptebit. P y P á Bcrnard.de. can fill and fattftìe it. And therefore that foule which feeketh dam in mac. full contentment in any thing fauing God, is like thofevn_ 19 cleane fpirits which lecke for ref/ but find none: yea it is Matth.iz. not onely fruftrate ofall fruit of it Iabour, but findeth that Etclefz.rr. which it feeketh not; that is, much difquietnelTe and vexa- tion offpirit. There worldly vanities being vnto themlike wind ro the' body winch puftéth vp, but nourifheth not ; tor- menteth,but not fatisfieth.Whereasonthe other fide, heein whofe heart God lodgeth and dwelleth by his holyfpirit, is throughly fiiled,and fully fatisfied; and though it fhould en- large it delires beyond thebounds of the higheftheauen,yet fhould no part thereof be emptie and vnreplenifhed; for as Afa1.37.4. thePlalmill tellethvs,ifwedc1iht in the Lord, he millgiuevs our hearts de/ire ; and rather then it fhould not be fatiffied he ?Timis Andrus willgiuevs himfelfe, whomwho fo enioyeth can wantno- eft "¡DC" thing. And therefore we fhould not fet our hearts vp on thefe son fa.(ficie, worldly things which cannot fatisfie vs but vpon the Lord, CoenaDomi. whole fruition bringeth full contentment. And becaufe(as ni term.7. one faith) no man poffefheth God, but he who is firl} pol ef- sedquon.iam fed of him, let vs become apoffeflionvnto God, that he may . nemaaDrum becotnea poffellionvnto vs ; and if wee haue him wee (hall p if f haue enough : for what can fuffice him whom the infinite qua pofidetur a abeo,fìmasnos Creator cannot fatisfie? Another reafonofthis vnfatiablen es ipfafa1PiVsi ofrnansmind with thefe worldly vanities, may bee their dif- joØej7Zo,sj.ef ference in nature, in that it is heauenly and fpirituall,and nobis pofif there earthlyand cor orall s in regard whereof there can bee &c.Augufi.de no proportion betweenethem ; and therefore as it is impof- fatutac.docu- fible to replenifh a corporal( emptineffe with afpiritual! fob- tncn.cap.y. fiance, asa theft with vertues,or the flomacke with wife- dome ; fo is it no more pofliibleto fill a fpirituall emptineffe with abodily fobftance, as the foule and mind of man with earthly treafures, or worldly preferments. And therefore when