Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That all worldly things6ringwrith them loathing fatietie. 447` tailed of them : or like veto fond lonerswhole affection be- ing iharpened with competition,aud difficulty ofobtaining, do make idols oftheir miflretfes,a nd admire them as though they were free from all fault and blemifh, and full of divine excellencies :bur after inioying them for their wiues, thinke them fcarce good enough to be their vnder fellowes, there being now in their conceit many more excellent, and free from imperfeéiions. And thus the ambitious man groweth out ofliking with his obtained honor, which before he had it, he wasrauifhed with delight, when he did but thinke of itwithfome weake and vncertaine hope ofinioying it,either because he leech another (which felfe-loue maketh him be- leeueisofleffedefers)better preferred, or becaufe growing ordinarie and common by poffeflïon, it becomes flak and triuiall;or finally,bccaufe being vaine,it doth not fatisfie and glue contentment, but rather fharpeneth the appetite,. and infllmeth.the delire to afpire to ati higherplace ; and a grea- ter honor being but entertained by delve, and nonnfhed with the leafl hope, maketh the leffer to be contemned as bale and worthleffe. Thus alto the couetous man loatheth Dimes quad fa: his owne poffefiions as good cheape and of finali value, and umeft gaa/i vi. delireth another mans, as being moll precious and worthie lel ftidu;g4ß4 raceme; and thofe things which he highly prifed before he atte f m e7, . had them, being come into his owne keeping are thought m ces- fcarce worth the hauing:thus hetaketh little ioy in his good - pifits. Ambrof ly honk and rich furniture, when his eyes baue been a littlt lib. de Nabuth. glutted with their light,though whileft they were in purcha- "Pa- ling, he thought to find in them á great part of his happines: thus his pleafant gardens and orchards bring no more de- light then the wilde woods, though with great labour and con he purpofely trimmed them, that they might be vnto him his paradife and place of ioy: and thus he pulleth downe his old barnes,when he thinketh ofbuilding bigger, and in. hislarge lordfhips thinketh hir.rfelfefiraitned, as though he were in a prifon, when he beholdeth others greater territo riesTinally,thus the voluptuous man isfiraight gluttedwith thefiuition of thofe pleafures,which before he muchdefi. red, the glutton loathing thofe meats which erewhile he longed