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rhat worldly things doe not fatis/leorbring contentment. 4t9 when we feed our hungry foules with this vnnaturalll food, it doth not fatisfie our appetite, but rather encreafeth our hunger.W hereas if we feed them with fpirituall food which is oflike fubflance vnto themfelues,they will thereby bee nouri4ud; and if we hunger after the bread of life, and dc- fire to replenith ouremptie foules with ChriVcsrighteoufises, mar4.6. wee are by him pronounced bleffed, becaufe wee lhall bee throughly fatisfied. Finally, ourappetites are vnfatiable, not through any neceflity which we haue ofearthly abundance, but through vnlimited and vnnaturall greedineffe; for in Ncce/feeñin refpeól ofvfe, nature is content with á little, as well as with immenfumex- much ; but when the foule being ficke of worldly concupi- eat aapidnar nataraiens fecnce, bath once paffed the limits of nature, whereby thefe raodumtrart things are meafured veto vs, according to neceflity and lift, ilia caim profit, the defires thereof become endleffe and infinite, babel fine"; la- and are by acceffe ofthefe vanities rather encreafed then di- um.inania ér minithed. For being applied to the mind to cure it of this exI`heTmiworta vnfatiable greedineffe, like w'eake and ouer gentle medi- cines, they onely flirre the humours ofour corrupt concupi- epif.39. fcence,wherby we become more dangerouflie ficke then we were before, but doe not at all purge and free vs from them. Let vs not therefore foolifhly imagine thatour minds can 4.Set7.4.. be fatisfied and filled with thefe worldly vanities, nor gree- That it is great dilie affcól and feeke after a greater meafure,when as we aref°llieWake not fitßïeed with a leffe,fuppofing that the acceffe ofquan- éarehty abua. title may bring contentment; fecing the hunger which wee dance. feede in our hearts proceedeth not from the want ofearrhlie abundance ; but becaufe it is vnnaturall nourithment for the mind of man, fo that it can no more fatisfie our foules hunger, then it can fatisfie our bodies to feede vpon the wind. And therefore as hisfollie were ridiculous,who being an hungred fhould feeke to fatisfie his appetite by gaping after the wind; and finding that a leffer gale would not fuf- fice, fhould runneto the wind, millhill to receiue a greater: / fo no leffe foolifh are thofe worldlymen, who finding their hearts emptie, and tormented with the hunger of greedie coucupifcence, doe thinke to flay their appetite by feeding E e z upon