Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That worldly things bring an endlef defre ofchange. 94, ly vanities fatisfie nor, yet they bring with them cloying fa- tietie, the which being accompaniedwith loachiome con- tempt, enforceth the mind which naturally affeeîeth happi_ nes, and full contentment (though it bec ignorant of the mcans whereby it may he attained) to fixe the delires vpon new obie6s,to fee ifit can find that in them,which was wan - ting in the other, wherein finding as little contentment as before, they leauealfo them and afle&nzw; till hauing run ouer all which they thinke worth the defiring, and hauing tried all things which the world calleth excellent (if atleafè they can with all their care and labour attaine vnto them) at length (like thole who affe& new fafhions and ffrange at- tires) when theyhaue tired their inuention, and know not what more to delire, they are faine to take vp the old againe which before they loathed,and after their glutted appetite is a littlefharpned with abfence and difcontinuance,they place vpon it afreib their Toone wearied delight, till their renued loathing moueth them vnto a new change. And thus world- ly men (like the bode in the mill) tire thetnfelues in trauel_ ling this endlellle circle,ending where they began,and being at the night of death as far from the iorney end of their de- fires, as when they began their daies trauaile:and not hauing fixed their hearts, and grounded their hopes vpon that neuer failing foundation, God all-fufficient and theeternallioyes of his kingdome, they haue nothing folid and fubfl;antiall to refi vpon, but like a feather in the aire they are toiled to and fro with euery winde,feeking yell but finding none.And hauing long tired themfelues in vaine, after manifold trials and new conclufions,finding no contentutent,atlafl they re- folue to place all their delight in often change; and that which they cannot find in the fublîance or fufficiencieof worldly things, they looke for in continual( varietic,fothat Nibil elf lucks. now there is nothing pleafing vnto them which varietie and dum ki fr qued change refrefheth not : like vnto thofe lying in bed, and not reficii variety íleeping ortaking refi, who being wearied with waking, do (pend the whole night in tumbling and toflingfrom one fide to another, Peeking for cafe in their often change, which they cannot find by quiet lying on either fide. And as chofe C g who