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That worldly things c rnnot farisfre or bringcontentment. 425 the more mans droplie hart drinketh of this golden fireame, the more it is inflamed with vnfatiable thirfi. So Salomon tel- leth vs that there is no end ofcouetoufnes : for (as he faith) he who is infeaed therewith, coueteth euermoregreedily ; fo Prousr.a6. elfewhere, he that loueth fileser (hallnot be fttisfied with (Auer, EccleL 5.9. and he that loueth riches (hall be without the fruit thereof. An example hereof we haue in s4chab, who was not fatisfied 1King.21. with y riches of a kingdome,but greedily coueteth Nabotbt vineyard, taking no ioy in all that he had, becaufe his poore neighbour hadthac.which pleafed him: and in therich matt in the Gofpell, who had filled all his barnes,but not his hart, and therefore he refolueth to inlarge them, that they might befomewhatproportionableto his mind; a thing foolifh, becaufe impoflible; for though they had been neuer folarge and full, yet the capacitie of the heart being farre greater, he would Bill haue found it emptieand vnfatisfied. It is true indeed, that thefe worldly richespromife con - §.Sail.$. tentment, and the heart ofthe couetousman deceiuing him, That worldly maketh him belecue,thatwhen he hach filled fuch a bag,and riche, promife raifed his flare tofuch a proportion, when he is become ma- Contentment, firer of fuch anhoufe and bath purchafed fuch lands or lord- but Cannotrea- F rt,andncrea- (hips, it will thenrefi fatisfied and contented; whereas ha-fors why. uing attained voto his delires, his greedie appetite groweth fafier vpon him then his wealth; and all that.he addeth tohis eflate is but fuell to encreafe the flame and furie ofhis concu- pifcence ;forwhenhebathwhathewould, he hath not that cumbábetquod he now willeth; but the obtaining of one with is the begin- voluit,non ha ping ofanother, and when he bathheaped all he can toge- bet quad volt. thee, it putteth not an end to his concu ifcencebutonl fer_erejcentemja Y quituc aura pe- ueth as a degree or fiep, whereby it mayafccnd higher. And eun male- this commeth to paffe partly becaufe riches are vaine, and rum¢, fames I therefore fill not; partly becaufe they are not the naturall multa perenti- food ofthe foule, and therefore cannot fatisfie it; and partly b ustia. fu at in that the delire and appetite ofmans heart, hauing paffed the naturall bounds ofnecelíitie and vfe, becommeth fo vn- 03.16. fatiable that nothing may lisilice it: for that which isabun-Paramel!luxu- dantvntonature, is too littlefor luxurioufneffe and greedie ric gycdt.Se auarice. And from this vnfatiable delire offill having more nec. de vita couctouf- beta. caps;.,