Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

468 O f the manes to ohtaeneconrentatìen. breake out into impatiencie,becaufe fomething we defire is withheld from vs; yea teeing the Lord keepeth nothing from vs, but fuch things as he knoweth would be tentations vnto finne, let vs glorie in thefe wants, and giue thanks to God,that we haue not more gifts then grace to vfe them,nor receiued a buithen aboue our ftrength. §.Seal. r o. Yeawill force fay,but I fee others whó God loueth abound The reafons in honours riches and delights, who notwithftanding ferue why the Lord God faithfully, and imploy thefe gifts which they haue re- hu tboorld1l ceiued,totheglory of him from whom theyhauereceiued of bis children them ; and why might not I alfo enioying them be bettered and not to and not hurt by them as well as they? I anfwere, that all are gibers. not of the like nature and temper, but as wee fay,fo many men, fo many minds; by reafon wherofit commeth to paffe, that ones food is anothers poyfon, one mans railing is ano- thers ruine, and that which is molt profitable for this man, is for another moll pernicious. There is no wife phyfition gi- ueth the famephyficke to all patients,or in the fame propor- tion ; but he fitteth it in quantitie and quality to euery ones, neede, giuing one pils to purge him, another cordials to re- fiore him ; one muff bee launched,anothermuft bee healed ; one mull haue fauces to quicken his appetite, anothermuft faft,and be cured by abftinence. Neither is there any wife houfholder that particularly knowing the condition of his familie, will prouide for,and feed all with like food,or with equal' quantity; for one loueth that which another loatheth, and this man arifeth hungrie with that allowance, which would tank another to furfet with exceflè. And doeft thou .denie unto God that liberty ofdifpofing vnto euery one that which Intl befitteth them, when as thou alloweft it vnto men? Shall the phyfition order his patients as hee plealeth, who often faileth in skill,and fometime infaithf.ilneffe;and (hall not the Lord be allowed to purge or re(lore, wound or bind vp,cautherize or heale,as hee knoweth moil fitting for bis feuerall patients, feeing hee can neither erreinknow- ledge,norfailein lone ? Shall the houfholder haue leaue to difpofe of his owne goods in his owne family,who rrotwith- /landing may be short in difcretion, or partiall in affe &ion; and