Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

446 Thatall worldly thingsbring with them loathing farietiie. feflfare, and conuerteth it to profitable nourifhment: fo a weake and froward mind is furcharged euen with the deli_ cates ofa profperous efiare; whereas an heart which is indu. ed with confiancie and patience, is contented, and can well digefi the meanefl condition, and groweth daily in better liking, whilefi it is fed with the bread of affliéìon, and wa- ter of forrow. 4 seas, A fecond effeéi ofthe vanitie and infufficiencie of worldly That worldly things is, that in fiead offatisfying they bring with the' loa- thingrin/lead thing fatietic ; for howfoeuer whilefi men are in purfuit of offati Eying thefe vanities,they thinke them offitchexcellency,that they totb gy aT would accountit a great part oftheir happines,if they might enjoy them ; yet hauing obtained their delire, they are firaight gluttedwith their companie, and now look vpon that with loathing contempt, which before they had it, they beheld with rauifhing delight: and this commeth to pafle, either becaufe they after fee things more defireable, and worthy their loue, in the poflèllion ofother men; or becaufe they haue there things in excefliue meafure, which maketh that which is moll Tweet to become loathfome; or becaufe their appetite which was fharpned with want, labour in fee- king, anddifïîcultiein obtaining, is dulled and taken away by their affduitie, and eafe inioying,without any competi- tour to fharpen theirloue: or finally, becaufe whilefi they were in the purfuite of thefe vanities, they were deceiued with a falfe conceit of their worth & excellencie;which opi- nion is afterwards confuted by their own experience,which manifefieththeir worthleffebafenes,and infrificiencie to fa- tisfie and bring contentment.In which refpe6l thefe world- ly vanities arefitly compared to the apples of Sodome,wh ich allure the eye,and fharpen the appetite, but ifany touch, or let his teeth in them, they fill his mouth with duff, or vanifh into finoake; and thofe which dote vpon them are like vnto thofe who hauing ficke and weake uiomackes, dolongfor many things when theyheare them but named, and when they are procured with colt, and prepared with labour, they begin to loath them, as forme as they fee them, and to waxe ficke as though they had furfetted, before theyhaue fcarce tailed