Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Thar worldly things cannot fatisße or bring contentment. 427 ceiuing by the way many broáks which fall into his Ferearn, growcth ftrong and vnrefiflable; for fo when a man fire let - teth couetoufneffe into his heart, it is but weake and eaflie checked, but when wealth and riches come vpon him,the Rreame of his concupifcence groweth fo violent,that neither reafon, nor religion can m ithiand ir. By which it plainely appeareth, that the more couetous §.S67,9 men abound with wealth, the more their pouerty is encrea- That mews fed ; for feeing the mind is the true meafure of riches, and he mcn,rhe more hey onely is to be accounted rich who bath fuch fuf ciencie and the they plentie as Both give contentment; and feeing,as I haue fhe- roam. wed, thole who fer their hearts vponriches,hauebytheir increafe their appetite alto increafed, and the more they a- bound in wealth, the leffeare their minds filled and firfficed; therefore it muff needs follow, that as they increafe in ex- ternally riches,' fo allo their internally pouerty is encreafed. For the more they haue, the more they delire ; the more they defire, the greater is their want, and the more they want, the poorer they are ; and confequently the more they haue, the more their pouerty is increafed. What they haue not, that they defire; what they defire, of that (at leaf+ in their owne iudgement)they Rand in need; how great therefore is the wantofthefe rich beggers, which need all the wealth Toto mundo that is in the world, fauing that (mall pittance which they eger,cuiusNOS hold in their owne poffef ion ? So that (as one faith) this capii mondus vice ofcoueroufneffe hath in it fuch contrarieties, that it is euPiditates like vnto a riddle; feting hee that bath mon, hath alto the abuihi ap i greaten want; for as they increafein wealth, they increafe Chryfolì.,ri in their wifhes and delires, and great delires argue ggreatitom.S.Ser.t;.. wants. For example, whiled a man is poore he ;wifheth onely for hundreds, promiing vnto himfélfe contentment if he could obtaine his delires; havingattained hundreds, he now wifheth for thoufands, and cotnming to thoufands bee affe &eth millions, and thinketh it now a kind ofpouerty to haue his riches and treafirres numerable. So that hee now skorneth his old defires,and contemneth hundreds if they be offered vnto him asa prey; not for that bee is fatisfied and tteedeth no more, but becaufe with his wealth his wifbes, and