4.oó Thethiraofthe route On the Ft day after is neuer fated. make them bigger. oy And ifany manshallaskeme,Ifthis- rithmanfhallnotbe able aslong as bee hues, though theyearns of his life weré''heuerfomany , to eat out that which hee hash Boredvp, why hefliöuld take-filer-1 adealeöf carke and care for his di- sot. et and his drinke? Ianfwer,That forthe feedingofbis bodie Much lee. might haue fufi cedhim, alittle thing would he feruçd the turne ; but it feemeth in theStorie, that bee fought tofatisfiehis foule,and that hee incited his foule to 1 feaffit felfe, and tomakemetric, whofe thirft is infatiable. Said Gregory Caith, That man,not finding in thepleafures andp:iffimes of this life, any humane de- lights anfwerable to thofeWh'ichhis heart defìreth,fecketh after changeand va- rietieof fports ; Ptquia qualitate rerumnonpotefl,/alttmvarietatcjtietur, TháY [ thequalitiecould frot,yet thevarietit ofthemmightlimeMay content : Inaword, as well doth the Couetousas the Prodigals die ofhunger. Salvino:: after that he had entred intofuch a full riuer ofdeli ghts, andenioyed fuchaplentiful harucft ofall kindof_worldly pleafures, hauingtheWorld at will, comes forth with twoHorfe-leeches of that infatiableappetite, that they fillfollowed him,-and neuer left crying, t.,4l feisafer : And Who could not :finde in his heartto curie that Creditoralmoft to the pit of Hell, who (hall fill baule vpon aman,& beas d.,ifcontentedbeing paid, asifhe were vnpaid. Others there are, which feeke to fatisfie this thirftwith the goods of Rea- uen, taking onely from the`earthasmuch as isfufficient for them ; like vnto. Gi- deons fouldiers,whopallingalongby the riuer fide,tooke vp water in thepalmes of theirhands. God approouingin the warfareofthis life, thatwee should in- ioy thegoods of thislifeby fhatchcs,and not to lie atracke and manger, Eriny- ing this worldac they enioyedit not : Whereaschore that lay down vpon their brc, and like dogslay lappingvp thewater, were reprooued by him. Nowbythis time theaduantage appeareth cleere vntovs, which liuing wa- ter bath ouer thatwhich is dead : he that (haldrink ofthis water,whither it be thisnaturali water, or thefymbolicall waterof humanedelights,he wil quick- lybecome thirffie again. For neither with the onewater is the thirft ofthebo- die allayed, nor with the other ofhumane pleafu es, that of the Soule : buthee that (hall drinkeof that liuing water that I !hall giuethem, (hail thirft nomore, referuing it's fatisfaclionand fulneffe tothat otherlife. This fence the Car- dinall of Toledo followes. Yet merhinkesthere isaplainer explicationof this place, towit, That hethat (hall drinkeofthis-deadwater, be it naturall,or fym= bolicall,fhall haue thirft bothhereand there, in this; and in that otherlife : in this,becaufe the more water hedrinketh, the morehee thirfteth : inthat other, becaufe Hell is a lake where there is no water. The couetous rich man could notthere get fo muchas one poore dropof water ; the thirft there is too raging andtoohot to bequenched. So that this verieword lterum,vltaine, doth im- pliean eternitie in their thirft ; but hee that (hall drinke of theliuing Water, (hall not fuffer an eternal thirff, becaufe this his thin} flail bee allayed in Heauen. Shall thirst no more . In part, it may be verified of the fulneffe ofthis life. Firft, Becaufealbeit the holy-Ghoft dothaugment the thirft of thofediuine goods, giuingthe Righteousa tafle thereof, as he did inTaborto the three Dif- ciples,whenhegauethemareli(hof his glorie ; yet thatthirft & define which they had at firft to enioy that good was not wearifome and troublefome vnto thcni, but rather that one little droppe, that one fmall crumme fee- medfo fauorietoPeter, that bee couldhaue reliedwell contented therewith for many
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