Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

430 Tbatworldly thingscannot f,atiafie or tiring contentment. quantitie ofthe water,but in the quality of the veffell, for if he would flop the leakes, he might as ealilyfill in a handing poole,as in the great ocean : fo the follie ofcouetous world.. lings is no lefle abfurd, who when they cannot fatisfie their greedie hearts with competent flore of riches, couet after more, thinking to glue them contentment when they can ;?uis diues ?qui wallow in the abundance of their wealth : but all in vaine nd paupcïauárais for the fault is not in the too little quantity of their riches, Autonius, but in thevnfatiable greedineffe oftheir mindes, which can I &e pauper oil neuer be fatisfied.And therefore they (houldnot feeke con - qui a bct quod tentment by filling their emptie harts in an ocean ofwealth, qui dr non i but rather by flopping thole 'cakes which are made by co- bens,habere non uecoufneffe,and fo would fmall flore of wealth better fatisfie appetit,diuesefi. rhein, thenthe great reuenues of a rich kingdome. Forhee Gregor.in t is not contentedwho hath enough,b uthe bath enoughwho zech.lib. s. is contented, feeingwhen he cannot fit his (late to his mind, Ho[nsl.s 8. he fitteth his mind to his eflate, & fo is fatisfied with a little, Neames initi- aa et dines eris: becaufe he defireth not tnuch.Now as he is truely rich which magna Punt di- hath as much as he wanteth or defireth ; fo he onely is to bee nitia non deli efteemedpoore,which wanteth that which he bath not; for necarecas.Se if not hauing wealth he neitherwanteth nor defireth it, bee Non is pauper is rich in his mind,though he be poore in poffeflions: neither ell qui nihil pof is he to be efleemed poore, whole mind agreeth with his fide:,fed qu; flare, but he who though he haue abundance is not fatisfied: mull' ncupf- feeing pouertie confifteth rather in the penurie of the mind, cit. deLazato then in the abfence ofriches, and not in hauing little, but in cone.,, not hauing that which is enough. 4.Seel.I2 Another reafon why the heart is not fatisfied with thefe Anotberreafon worldly things, is, becaufe they who are poffefled of them, why richesfasi!: cannot find in their hearts to vfe them; and though they haue be ecaufe they are abundance ofearthly treafures, yet are they fo charmed with not vfed. thefe idols, vpon which they haue let their hearts, that they dare not touch them, or any way conuert them to their be Plutarch. de nefit : refembling herein the Indian Ants, which (as it is laid Cupid.diuit. of them) taking great painesin gathering gold, done= vfe it,but only hide it,fo that others can haue no benefitby ir:or him who being Bent with fickuefle,hath his table furnifhed with all manner of dainties,but wanteth a fiomacke to feed vpon