Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

.eimmiaimmomi IA Thatl%orldly things caanot/arisfe or bringconte',tment. and with his willies his wants are increafed; and therefore hedefpifeth theft. final! cups, beraufe he thirfle:h after great Dtu sellnógni riuers, andnoleffe then whole Ilreamcsofriches can fòmuch rauhuN::habet, aspromife him contentment. Now if it bee the one! true Jed qsi Null° y egeat..iid el riches, not to haue much, but to Hand in need of nothing, itaquedeaitem and to abound in all things which aman defireth; thenhovwt ere,nifrabun- great is their pouerty, who being vefatisfied, want fo much? da".8ccAmb how farre are they from true riches which are fo flraitned numepüt lib. in their minds,and haue their hear tslike a bottomleffe guile ;.epiA.r0. full ofnothing but want and penurie ? §.st f.r0, In which refpeet the condition of couetous rich men is That cowerear much more miferable then theirs who are of the poorer fart, rieb nett are feeing their wants being meafured according CO their de- more in roast fires, are much greater; for thefe neede but little, becaufe then the poere they defire not much; whereas they Hand in need of abun- dance, becaufe it is no little will giue them contentment. Now as his efiate is very mlferablewho is tormented with an infatiable thirfl,though he haue his tellers full of drinke; and he much better in his condition, whoas hee hath little [lore, fo alto he hath little thirfl ; fo much more miferable is he whole mind is infatiable,through this dropfie of coua toufneffe,though he haue abundance; then Such an one as hauing little, is notwithflanding contented with that hee bath. Take for example Achab and Naboth, the onehauing akinadome, the other fome (mall poffef ions. But yethee who head abundance,and the reuenues ofa kingdome, is not fatisfied with all he poffeffeth, but greedily coueteth the poore mans vineyard; on the other fide Naboth bath butlit- de,yet that little fo contenteth him, that bee defirethnone of the kings abundance. Now which of tilde was tritely rich, he that feemed to want, becaufe his poore neighbour a vineyard which he thought worth his defiring; or the òther that is fatisfied with his owne poffeflions ?whetherofthe Ambrof.libde two was poorer, he who wanted no more then hee enioyed, Nabuth. cap.z. but retied content with his owne ; or hee who greedily co- ueted that which belonged to another ?Surely this man was much more poore in his affeSlion, then the other inhis cfìate and.poffeffìon. Whereby it appeareth that the infatiable rich man,