Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Oat worldly things cannotfatisfie or bring contentment. .121 monilrous births, aberrations, and corruptions of nature, which were betterffrangled then nourifhed, infatiabledif- cafes and dropfics ofthe foule,which torment with fulneffe, and are foonefl cured by longer]: abflinence. But this infi:áiciencie in worldly vanities to fatisfie the §.Seas. mind and giue contentment, will more cleerelyappeare,ifrbe t /bjficiex- we would make vie ofour owne experience,andlet them be- a -y ojmnrtdly fore vs as examples who haue moil abounded with them. tontgen oeiva P eostext,fhemeá For how many doe we daily fee aduanced to the highefl ho- by examples. nors,aboundingwith riches,and wallowing themfelues in al worldly delights, who are as vnfatisfied and farre from con- tentment, as thole who moll want them ?How many fhall we obferue confirming their daies in inelancholick pallions, and humorous difcontent, whom the world hath enriched with his brll meanes to make them happie ? how many are there who are heauie, forrowfull, and euer complaining:; who if they were asked cannot tell what they want, as thoughthey were preffed downe with the waight of their own felicity,and thought themfeluesvnhappie,becaufe they haue drunke fo deepcly of the worlds happineffe ? And this commeth to paffe becaufe this fun -thine of worldly profpe- rity doth mollifie and effeminate the mind, making it foo- lifhly wanton,and through wantonnes wayward & peeuifh; and through this froward waiwardnes, hardly pleafed with all the worlds heft fauours , and difcontented when the leafI occurrent croffeth their will, or but theleafl appearance of euill looketh towards them. Herein like vnto:foolifhchil- dren,who being brought vp under feuerer difcipline, & con- tinually refirained of their will, doe patiently endure it, though they are denied neceffaries, and aremuch affe6led and ouerioyed when they haue a little liberty, or Come (mall fauour vouchfafed them from their gouernours whereas if they be cockered by their parents, and haue in all things their wils and vain humours fatisfied, they grow in a while fo wanton,and through wantonneffe fo wayward, that no. thing will pleafe them,or keepe them from crying and com- plaining butare much more froward in their fulneffe, and difcontented in the fruition of all that they can delve; E e 3 then