goat f ofthe e o .,. are infiniteand can never be fatisficd with the things ofthis'1ife, fo they art boon cloyed with anyof thefe things : fometimes affeEting,fometimes ditaf- iceìing. Nothing cangive amans atfe6tions full content but only their God. If thoúdoeff not (et thineaftaions upon God, thine affe&ions can never have content : the things of this life were never made for our aftaions tobe fet on; if thin:. affe&ions were made co be let upon the things of this 1114 they could never becloyed with them. Is the fire ever cloyedwith burning ? is a (tone ever cloyedwith lyingon theMound? is theSun ever cloyedwith lhining ? no,ic is made for thisend : Thou wert never made to eat and to drink,tor thy ftomack tvi11be cloyed with mear,andcloyed withdrinks:thr fweeteft meats under heaven,ifye burden your ftomack therewith,thcy cloy it : thouwert never made tohunt and to bowie to dice,and to card,bt- cau(c thoti mayeftbe cloyed with pleafure; thine affe6tions are fubje .} toa cloy,it theybe fct upon the things of this life;they are trionitersanddevils in- ca hate,that arenever weary with (wearing, and lying, and playing, and company- keitpiñg. I fay, thefe men are all monfteri: for ifa man bea man,and he be not a naonfrer,he will becloyedand wearied withhis wayes.They are badenough that the Prophet does fpcalc of, I am lure they were turfedwret- ches, yet they were sot fuchdamnedwretches as never to beweary with their íì$i5; they havewear;ed them/awl to commit inigs ty, 7cr, 9, 5. They were weary with tinuing,aud cloyed Withtheir wayes,and yet theywouldon : on they wenr,')at it teems theywere not nu*Et mon(ters togoon and never be wearied ; ther; isnothing in this life thoucard let thine affe &ions upon, but it will wearyand cloy thineaffe&ions,and therefore without doubt they are notthe trueobjc&s of thine.atte&2ions. What bale Proverbs have the wiacd,when they come from their sports ? foinetimes ye Hiatt hear them fav, I ain as weary as adog ;when the drunkard hathbarreld himfelf with his iigior,he isas lickas a dog, otherwhdes,as we fay, fuch filthy mouthed fpccches we have, which fliew they arecloyed now and then with there things ; as the Poet (ayesof the I-lode and theOxe, Optotephippi4 Bos pager, -M r. E .4. t opt .a arare Caballus,the lazieOxe that is toilingat the Plough, he is weary with ir, he could with he weretired like a Horfe to the.faddle,that would be icíiè vcarilot he he thinks then the Plough ; the Horte that is toiled with its O he isweary with ir, hecould withhe were 'fed to the yoke, that Would be a farce eafier life. Thu; mars' wayesdowearyand cloy theirafe- c iöns : the proud Minion is. wearied and cloyed with filth an odde fa(hion, o the muffhaveanother ; the garnefter is weariedwith a. kin&of (port, he puff haveanother thedelicatepalate is cloyed with Guth tattedmeats, it riai t have others. Certainlychine a4feEtions are wrong fer, when theyare apt tobe cloyed on this manner; O therefore let thine afteetionson God, there thou (halt never be cloyed. I know. a roan may fet his affcE ions to- God-ward, and be weary, baitthen they are not right .letwhen he is weary. They ferved God amifle, when they Laid, Behold what awearineffe asst ? 1V1al. ><. I 3.. If they had gone a right way toworke,- they had never been weary nor cloyed with ferving ofGod. But ye brethren,benot _ioearywith well doing, z Yheffal. 3. 13. that is, fet your affe&ions aright upon, o and fo be never weary with it : the affe&ions will never be cloyed when they are truly let uponGod ; the fiefh will be Weary, but the fpirit cannot be Weary. God gives the foule full abfolure. content ; the foule is at rota' When it is let upon God, As the (tone is -never cloyed with lyingon the ground, becaufe there is its reft, fo God is the ref} of the f©ti'le. The grcateft glutton in the World will come ar laft to fay, I have In omnibus re- eaten too iiiuch ; the greatcft drunkard , have drunken too much : the bus xagis o ffen- greateft fpendthrift , I have spent away too much; his afteEtions are dit ni,rsium, cloyed : but (et thine affection upon God , thou'rcgitt, I1tvet iikne tona m O a' too
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