Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

420 That worldly things cannotfatísfie or bring contentment." vpon this wind ofworldlyvanities;and failing of their expe- ¿iation in aleffer quantitie, thinke to attain vntotheir hope, when they haue heaped vp to themfelues a greater; for the defeáti' not in the rnatter,but in the nature and qualitieof the nourifhment, there being no fimilitude or proportion bet weene a fpirituall foule, and corporal] fubflances. They doe indeede for the prefect feeme to fatisfie and affwage the hunger, but afterwards it is enraged with greater greedi- neffe : euen as cold drinke doth giue fotne prefent cooling and refrefhing to him who is in a fit ofa burning feuer,but loon after the heatreturning with greater violence bringeth with it more intollerable thirf}. And as the fire at thefirfi ca- fling on of wood or oyle,hath for theinflant the heat therof fomewhat abated,but prefently after hauing caught hold of the matter, it waxeth much more hote then it was before : fo worldly men purfuing thefe earthly vanities, after they haue attained vnto their hopes,haue for the inaant fome content - tnent; but within a while the rage of their concupifcence reuiueth and encreafeth, tormenting their foules with mots vnquenchable thir(lineffe then that which they felt before they tailed them. If therefore we would haue fuch fufficien- cie of thefe worldly things as may bring contentment, wee mua attaine voto it by moderating our aff'eo`lions, rather then by multiplying thefe vanities; if wee would haue this aguifh thirfi flaked and abated, it mull not bee by larger drinking of thefe vnfatisfying drinkes, which will but en- creaul our appetite ; but by purging away the fretting choler of worldly concupifcence,which is the true caufe of our vn- fatiableneffe: and if wee would haue this deuouring fire of our greedie defies quenched, let vs not foolifhly heapevp- paciliusrtje- on it more of that matter whereby it is nourifhed ; but ra- cant ur cupidi- Cher call on it the waterofcareleffe contempt, whereby this taus inysqui flaming hcate will bee foone extinguifhed. For much more Peam criligunt, eafily (hall we find contentment, and haue our foules fatif- qnú dúÁlg ntficd,bydiminifhingour defires, and cutting off our greedy aliquandorati_ concupifcence, then by nourifhing them with outward lop- anlur.AugulI. plies, teeing they are not naturali affe&ions, for then they ad Boni Etc. would delight in necelTaries and not in fuperfluities, but cpift.yo,totn.a, mou(lousr.