14 3. Luk,ro42. 42. rames ,Y a17. A Remedy. againft . Covetoufefe.. yee goe the wrong way to get it. Thirdly,.Confider that you make a wrong. choife, yee feeke not that which will doe it. Ifyou leeke for thiscomfort fromGod, all is isone piace, but ifyee feeke for it in thecrea- tures, yee mufr havea multitudeof them to comfort you; yee mullhave health, wealth, honours, friends, and manyother things; but one thing will dot it atyeegoe the right way: yee (hall finde it onely in God. Martlit, e wad troubledabout many things when do onethug onely wä6 neceffary. If yee feeke comfort in earthly things,ye mull have a thoufrnd things 'to helpe it, but godlincffe which bath the pro - mileof this life and of the life tocome doth yeeld this comfort ofits felfe,if that 'yee feeke itin it.. It is a great advantage for us, to have all`cot for& inone thing : God'linefe onely bath all thefecomforts, therefore lecke thew_ in ir. Fourthly, Confider, that thatcomfort and happineffe which you have from the crea- ture, is-but a dependent felicity, and iris fo much the worfe; becaufe it depends on the creature, which is mutable and uncerraine: how much better is it to depend onGod) in whops is no fhadon ofvarietyor change. Every creature is weaker by how much it bath more dependency onanother creature ? and foarc yee weaker by how much more yeedc. pend on outward. things. If yee depend on friends,
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