it is to escape without Repentance Who more likely to abhor himself to be humbled and broken in heart to confess his Sin with Shame and to resolve against it which are but the several parts of Repentance than he that considers how he hath affronted God perverted his Order seduced his Brethren and wronged his own Soul and disparaged the very Reason that God hath given him and laid the Foundation of Gods Eternal displeasure and his own everlasting ruine You see Consideration when it is of such particulars is the ready way to bring a Sinner to Repentance And on the other side who so like to find joy and pleasure in the Contemplation of Heaven and the joys thereof in the possession it self and the promise that gives Right and Title to it than he that hath some good hope through Grace that he shall enjoy it So that you see of what use Consideration is both before and after Conversion but yet as before Regeneration there may be in the heart of a Sinner that love which worketh by desire though not that which worketh by complacency to Heaven and heavenly things so before Conversion there may be that Consideration that is forced and constrained but after Conversion it 's like to be more sweet and pleasant and to bring in greater profit and advantage O could you but look upon God as your reconciled Father in Christ and one that is at peace with you how would this help up your thoughts Heavenward and sweeten your Meditations of the life and happiness to come you would not need then so much to force and spur up your mind to such comfortable thoughts at least sometimes it will be getting up of its own voluntary accord upon Mount Nebo to view the promised Land he that hopes to be one of the Inhabitants of the Heavenly Jerusalem will at least sometimes walk about Sion and go round her and tell the Towers thereof And mark well her Bulwarks and view and consider her stately Mansions and Palaces Psa 48.12 13. what an encouragement will you have to look up and behold the glory and perfection of the Divine Nature when you can say This is my Father and these Attributes I have an Interest in But yet I must needs confess that even after Conversion there will be oft-times much backwardness and reluctancy to this spiritual and heavenly Duty and you will need to quicken up your selves and chide your backward hearts that they should be so strange to the place where their Treasure is laid up But yet it will not be so hard to bring your heart to such Meditations as it was when you were without hope and without God in the world Fifthly It will further the work of consideration to lay Temporal things in the balance with Eternal things and to make advantage of every Object that 's presented to our Senses to make the consideration of the highest and greatest things more warm and piercing You may very well and rationaily conclude that if the glory of Earth be so great as to dazle the eyes of some beholders and strongly to enamour their affections that the glory of Heaven doth far out-shine it He hath reserved joy and gladness indeed for that place and state if there be so much to be found in this sinning imperfect state here on Earth for all Earthly things serve but to the example and shadow of Heavenly things Heb. 8.5 If the beauty of the body be so taking that men and women oftentimes dote upon it what is the beauty of the Soul do you think and if it were to be seen with bodily eyes how much would it ravish and amaze the beholders If the pleasure of the Senses be so sweet and delicious that men will buy them at the dearest rate how sweet must the pleasures of the Soul needs be when there is so vast a difference between the Soul and Body that are the subjects of these pleasures As there is an unspeakable disproportion between a Spirit and a Body so there must needs be as wide a disproportion between the delights of the one and the delights of the other For I suppose none can be so absurd as to think that the state to come shall be no better than this present state and that mens Bodies are as much worth as their Souls and the Heaven which is the place of his glorious Habitation and Palace is no more adorned than the Earth None can be so void of reason to think that God bestows as much upon his Rational Creatures whilst they are in a state of Tryal and Probation as when they are come to Perfection and are actually chosen to be Citizens of the Heavenly Corporation where they shall live for ever How can the joy of Seed-time be comparable to the joy of Harvest And how can this visible Sun rejoyce the Creatures that it shines upon so much as the Face of God will rejoyce those that behold it You may well therefore rise up in your Meditations from any perfection that you behold on Earth to admire those perfections that are unseen They are the greatest that lye not open to the bodily eye nor can be enjoyed by any Corporeal Faculty or Organ so that when you walk abroad and look upon the glory of the visible Heaven and Earth you may much more admire the splendour and excellency of the invisible Heavens and consequently of all those things that lead thither God that made all things made those visible things that they might be some advantage to the Understanding of things invisible and that they might lead up our apprehensions and affections to him that cannot be immediately seen without the help of such a Glass God is infinitely exalted above our understanding neither are we capable of having any direct and proper Conceptions of the state and life to come and therefore the glory of Heaven is set forth to us in the Word of God by such things as seem glorious to our Senses The Streets of the New Jerusalem or Heaven are said to be paved with Gold and the Gates to consist of Pearl and precious Stones and the pleasures of that state are set forth by a Feast because these are so pleasing to our Senses Now though we must not understand these things in a proper litteral sense yet we are hence instructed that the happiness is exceeding great and such as cannot be well understood by us but by such helps as these So that we may well argue from any pleasures or excellency here on Earth to the excellency and pleasure of that state and make this advantage of all sensible comforts to make our apprehensions of things spiritual more lively and affecting As therefore you may collect the unspeakable torment and misery of the Damned by the pressures and calamities that we feel here on Earth and Hell is usually set forth by Fire and Darkness and a Worm continually feeding upon the Conscience which are things obvious to our Senses so
to have this dreg put into thy Cup and to have no God to remember thee When thy Friends fail thee and thy nearest Comforts deal deceitfully with thee as a Brook deceiveth the thirsty Traveller in those hot Countreys where Water was scarce that repairs to it for Refreshment and when he came behold it is dried up Job 6.15 What a cutting thought will it be to thee if God forget thee also Nay to come a little nearer to thee what wilt thou do when thou walkest through the valley of the shadow of death Psal 23.4 When the pains of Hell take hold on thee and the sorrows of the Grave compass thee about How wilt thou be comforted if the Lord fly from thee and thy cry will not be suffered to come into his Ears Psal 18.4 5 6. Canst thou be content to be forgotten for ever when the Righteous shall be had in everlasting Remembrance Psal 112.6 Surely thy Spirit will be overwhelmed within thee and thy Heart within thee will be filled with Desolation and Astonishment Psal 143.4 Alas alas thou canst scarce bear it If a Father a Husband or Brother or one of these thy dearest Friends look strangely on thee We may very well think that it went near Job when he complained that his Kinsfolk failed him and his familiar Friends forgot him Job 19.14 yea that his Breath was strange to his Wife though he entreated her for the Childrens sake of his own Body ver 17. And canst thou endure to be forgotten of him that 's ten thousand times a better Friend Will it not break thy Heart when he that can only help thee shall say Verily he knows thee not Mat. 25.12 Behold I cry out of wrong saith Job but I am not heard I cry a loud but there is no Judgment Job 19 7. Whither wilt thou go for help when this shall be thy case and it shall be truly said there is no help for him in his God when he who is the God of Salvation shall not hear thee Psal 68.20 Thou shalt surely speed as the forgetters of God have always done they cried but there was none to save them even unto the Lord but he answered them not Psal 18.41 Not unlikely but thou canst hold up thy Heart and keep thy Heart whoâ—e and abate nothing of thy confidence when God hideth himself whilst thou art warm in outward Prosperity and there is no want of these outward Comforts as with a Sword in thy Bones it woundeth thee not though it be said unto thee where is now thy God Psal 42 10. Thou canst pray unto God it may be if thy forgetfulness of God hath not put thee past that duty or rather put up a few lifeless words instead of Prayer and never look as David did Psal 5.3 nor care whether he send down any Prayers yea or not whilst thy Breasts are full of Milk and thy Bones are moistened with Marrow Job 21.24 And thou hast full measure of temporal Comforts Thou canst lay thee down in Peace and rest and sleep quietly if the Lord make thee to dwell safely and plentifully in this World though thou knowest not whether he remember or forget thy Soul Psal 4.8 But when the fire of thy Hearth is gone out and sin hath kindled a fire in thy Heart and Conscience then thou wilt cry out bitterly to God whom thou canst so easily forget Wherefore hidest thou thy Face and countest me for thine Enemy Job 13.24 It may be whilst thou art surrounded with outward mercies and hast a spring tide of these present comforts and the stream run full and waters of a full cup are wrung to thee Psal 73.10 When our Garâ—ners are full of all manner of store Psal 144. ver 13. and we have the priviledge of outward cummunion with God also we are content with the want and absence of God and the sense of his sweetest Love and with a negligent heartless service of him if not a total neglect And the World hath had our Hearts when we have put off God with words and wishes and a few confessions that come not from the Heart nor tend to any considerable Reformation But when the things that our Souls lust after shall be snatched away and all our dear enjoyments which we have sinfully prefered before God are gone when Creatures shall refuse to give out their Comforts any longer and our darling Delights which lie in our Bosoms and are to us as Children are to doting Parents are gone and we shall want also the outward Ordinances which serve to keep us in a deluding peace when Hophni and Phineas are slain I mean our sweetest Comforts and the Ark of God also is removed and the Glory departed from us 1 Sam. 4.11 21. Our Hearts that are so backward to feel now will then break and be overwhelmed then we shall better understand what it is both to forget and to be forgotten of God It 's the comfort of one that remembereth God above his chief joy Psal 137.6 and worth a World that though the publick Calamities be never so dreadful and a thousand fall at his Side yea ten thousand at his right Hand yet God remembereth him and though personal miseries multiply upon him and he hath neither comfort nor taste to relish it through want of health if he can say unto men I am poor and needy yet the Lord thinketh on me and unto God Thou art my help and deliverer make no long tarrying O my God Psal â—â— 17 If he hath true ground to say As for me thou upholdest me in mine integrity and wilt set me before thy Face for ever Psal 41.12 But it is the heart-break of one that hath forgotten God that distress is come upon him and God remembers him not Such a case was Saul in when he went to a Witch to raise up Samuel that he might consult a little with him and when she had brought up Samuel to him Samuel said to Saul Why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up It would make a mans heart ake to hear his doleful reply And Saul answered I am sore distressed for the Philistines make War against me and God is departed from me and answereth me no more 1 Sam. 28.15 This is another woful effect and consequent of this sin those that cast God out of their Remembrance God will forget them But stay this is not all for 3. Thirdly As he will forget their Persons so he will remember their sins Amos 8.7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob surely I will never forget any of their works speaking of the forgetful Israelites If God would forget them wholly and neither remember their Persons nor Actions their misery would not be so fearful as now it is But this will be an intolerable thought to them that as God when he is marking out his Servants for Deliverance and Salvation he will pass them by so when he is bringing the most horrible Calamity upon the World
of it to set his Heart on a little fading Beauty Lying Honour Perishing Riches or unsatisfying Pleasure or Carnal Wisdom to be guilty of the greatest Folly that he may swagger a little while So it makes as wide difference in the Means and prevails with some to humble them that God may in his due time exalt them to emyloy their thoughts how to mortifie their Affections to the World how to strengthen the Love of God to root their Faith more deeply by a more frequent Exercise of it and how to get their Hearts more affected with the wonderful love of Christ This makes them so frequent in Prayer so attentive upon the Word so intent upon all Christs appointed Means that they may increase in Spiritual Understanding and Love when the Inconsiderate can dispence with these for a little worldly Gain or Ease and prefer Earthly Toyl and Labour before a little pains to get the true Wisdom and to save their Souls In the Name of God therefore I beseech you to consider if you would not be guilty of the greatest dotage and miscarry in the choice of your End and consequently of all the means If you would not take a Dream for Happiness and spend your Strength for nought and be forced to confess your Folly when you come to die Force your selves to Consider especially when you have the best advantages to promote Consideration when you have Time Leisure Health seasonable Instruction from the Word and Providence of God and you feel more sensible Conviction of the worth of God's Favour and the vanity of all things then consider and set it home and drive on to a Resolution to forget God no longer Consideration will help you to do this if you will follow it and encourage your selves to it and not check your Minds when they are thus employed Plead not your Ignorance and Unskilfulness do it as well as you can and use will make you more expert much less plead your Impotency and pretend that you are utterly unable If a little Worldly Trouble come upon you you can consider how to get out or shake off the Trouble If you are under a Reproach and a little Contempt of Men you can Consult and Consider how you may wipe it off and vindicate your Name and Credit But oh what thoughts of Heart and wise and deep Consideration to secure Life it self and the Comforts that are nearest and dearest to it These are Signs that we have the Faculty and can Consider about those things that we value or have any love to That Men are therefore so Inconsiderate in the Concernments of their Souls and about the matters of another Life It 's an evident Sign they value them not they care not for them to awaken such therefore and put them upon this great and necessary Work I shall suggest these following Proposals Incentives to Consideration FIrst You have matters of the greatest importance and necessity to Consider If it were only to live happily here and to escape the miseries of this Life it 's worth Consideration to bring this about but it is an Everlasting Life and Happiness that we are to provide for which if we do not compass it 's not the loss of this that will be our only Misery though it be an unspeakable unvaluable Loss But you must bear also the Wrath of God that will kindle on you like a devouring Fire and the Fury of a guilty awakened Conscience that will fall upon you like a Tempest and fright your Soul into Everlasting Dread and Horror And doth it not mightily concern us to Consider how to escape all this If thou hast any love to thy own Soul when the Qustion is whether thou shalt live or die for ever thou wilt Consider and thoroughly resolve thy self If thou hadst lost a dear and powerful Friend on whose Favour all thy Worldly Hopes did depend thou wouldst not refuse to let thy Thoughts run upon such a Subject as this is neither would it be tedious to thee to Consider how thou mightest obtain thy Pardon and regain his Favour The case is Ten thousand times worse incomparably more sad You have lost the Favour of God and are fallen under his Displeasure and you are like to perish for ever unless Consideration bring you to bewail your loss and sin which is the cause of it and bring you to Repentance and so prepare you to believe in Christ If you had some great business to dispatch intricate and doubtful you would endanger your Estate or Life if it were either neglected or imprudently managed who would not summon up all the Reason that he hath and consider well how he may dispatch it as successfully as he can And do you not perceive how absurd it is to be careless how your present Life is ordered that must decide the Case and Detriment how you shall live for ever and not to Consider and that to purpose how you may get Christ for your Friend to procure your Acceptance with God how to get the Holy Spirit of Promise to dwell in you to turn the stream of your Affections from Earth to Heaven and to subdue your Corruptions and to fortifie and encourage you against Temptations to put you upon your Duty and to enable you to a right Performance You will lay by such works as this or do it in a mad and careless fashion if you do not Consider why and how it must be done It 's Consideration that must shew you the truth and certainty of the Life to come the Glory of Heaven and what an intollerable loss it is to fall short of it It 's that must shew you what a Debter you are to God and to your Redeemer and the worth and excellency of your Soul and the necessity of a renewed Holy Nature and of an Humble and Self-denial Life Consideration I say must needs shew these things and affect your Heart with them and make you sensible how much they do import and how nearly they do concern you or you will never do them you 'll rather take the brutish Enjoyments that Inconsideracy will make you relish and chuse the Pleasures of Delirancy and Madness rather than pay so dear for true Wisdom as you must if you are a stranger to the fore-mentioned Consideration I say pay dear in respect of the Flesh and it's sinful Contentments which must lose their Lives in the Service of God and your own Souls though it will be unspeakably cheap when you have paid the most in this kind O how doth it import us to know God as our Maker Lord and Governour in such a manner as doth affect and captivate our Hearts to a voluntary and wilful subjection to him as our only Felicity How much doth it concern us to get such a clear sight of his amiable lovely Nature and most transcendent Persections as may possess our Souls with the highest Reverence of him and kindle the strongest love to him that the Remembrance
for what the World will give thee instead of it thou shalt consider when it is too late and say with that unhappy King that sold away his Kingdom for a draught of water Alas must I for so short a pleasure lose so great a Kingdom Ninthly Another thing that it concerns thee much to roul about and consider with thy deepest thoughts is the horrour and confusion of those that must be banished for ever from the face of God and sentenced to everlasting misery There 's none that escape that place but those that frequently think on it and believe it it s well worth thy serious Consideration to preserve thy soul from such a fearful destruction Many a man whom God hath awakened to believe those terrible endless torments have retired themselves from all worldly noise and disturbance that they might live under the power of these thoughts as the best preservative against these torments And is not thy Soul as dear and precious to thee as their's to them and deserve as much compassion from thee Surely though it is not thy duty to think actually of the woful and miserable estate of unbelievers all the day long Yet it 's of absolute necessity that some serious thoughts should be spent on that subject till the fear thereof make void and prevail over all Carnal worldly fears whatsoever And make thee more industrious to prevent that misery than thou art to escape the scorn and and reproach and all the sufferings and miseries of this life otherwise thou art never like to escape it And methinks thou should'st easily believe that Hell is more to be feared than all the Calamities of this Life and the loss of this Life it self But thus it will never be if thou art not one that dost often represent it to thy thoughts A danger though it be never so great yet if it be both out of sight and mind also will fright no body nor have any the least influence upon our endeavours to escape it The evil must be before the eye of our sense or understanding that works upon us to take the best course for our security and defence And the nearer we apprehend it to be the more hast we make to get away from it And whether a wicked man hath no reason to think his woful misery near even at the door I leave any man to Judge that hath any competent use of his understanding what can you name almost that 's more uncertain then this Life and so soon as ever it ends then begins his distress that shall never end But yet let him not be too confident that it shall not begin before Many a man hath felt the torments of Hell on this side the grave and this Judgment hath commenc'd before his life hath been concluded some mens sins go before them to Judgment saith the Apostle and some mens follow after 1 Tim. 5.24 There is some men feel the Vengeance of a righteous Judge even in this Life Spira professed that he felt the consuming fire of Gods wrath in his heart and Conscience whilst he was alive and openly blasphemed his Maker wishing that he was above him for he knew as he said that he would have no mercy on him O Sirs the intollerable pains that every impenitent Sinner must speedily undergo are well worth the pains of a few hours Consideration to prevent and if you think it not so you may spare your pains a little longer till your lamentable experience shall put you quite out of all doubt If indeed the diversion of your thoughts from so sad an object were the way to secure your Souls and to keep out of that devouring and unquenchable fire then you might well excuse your selves from troubling your minds with such thoughts as these But though you may quench the spirit of God that moveth you to Consider of this and to let it sink into your heart that you may seek for mercy whilst it may be had yet you cannot quench the flames of Hell nor extinguish that fire that must feed upon your soul and body for ever O how much better is it cooly to Consider the intolerableness of Gods wrath then to feel the burning heat and extremity of his indignation when there is no remedy If it were indeed but a flea bite you might slight it and keep your thoughts for something of more weight and moment Or if it were unavoidable perhaps you might do wisely not to torment your selves before the time nor invite such a guest till it comes of his own accord 'T is to no purpose to think of such sufferings which thinking will not prevent But believe it it is no flea-bite nor a matter to be slighted Fire and Sword and Rack and all the inventions of Cruelty that were ever found out are but Sport and Recreation to the Judgment and Condemnation of the Life to come And because the loss of God and Heaven seems such a tolerable punishment to these Vessels of wrath Let me tell them that there 's no part or member either in their Soul or Body that shall not be racked with perpetual and eternal pain And can thine heart endure or thine hands be strong when he shall come to deal with thee Ezek. 22.14 Thou would'st eat thy bread with trembling and drink thy drink with terrour and astonishment if he should pour out on thee some few bitter drops of his displeasure now in this life Thou even thou saith the Psalmist to Almighty God whose Judgments thou despisest art greatly to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry Psal 76.7 what trembling eyes and what a failing heart have they whom God doth a little terrifie with some frowns of his anger here on earth you may hear them cry out in the morning would God it were evening and in the evening would God it were morning for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear and for the fear of thine eyes which thou shalt see Deut. 28.6 51 67. How dolefully doth Job complain under his outward sufferings though he had Integrity to support him and the root of Comfort was within him Job 19.28 Death it self it seems would have been welcome to him under the heavy pressures which he felt as we may see in Job 3.20 21. c. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life to the bitter in Soul which long for death but it cometh not and dig for it more than for hid treasures which rejoyce exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave Why is life given to a man whose way is hid and whom God hath hedg'd in for my sighing cometh before I eat and my roarings are poured out like water And how David was ready to faint away many a time under the apprehensions of Gods displeasure it 's the design of many a passage in the Psalms to tell you Psal 51.8 Make me to hear of joy and gladness that the
of an hungry Man with Grace and Virtue or something that 's purely Spiritual as fill the Soul and Spirit of a Man with Earth and Earthly Things or any thing of a gross or corporeal Nature because there is so little Likeness and Proportion between the Appetite and the Food Prov. 27.20 Hell and Destruction are never full so the Eyes of Man are never satisfied Eccles 1.8 As the Horse-leach hath two Daughters that cry Give give Prov. 30.15 which some understand of its forked Tongue that hath two Suckers at the end of it so there is in Man by Nature first an eager desire after these worldly things and secondly an unquietness or want of content when he hath gotten them and a more burning desire after them which is worse than the former As that Thirst is always worse which proceeds from too much drinking than that which proceeds from a total want of drink These shews what unsatisfactory things they are in that they do not quiet and content but rather more enrage our desires and vex and discompose the Heart Eccles 5.10 He that loveth Silver c. Secondly Because they are so short and limited in their virtue and operation It 's commonly but one or two Necessities that one Creature can supply and those but very imperfectly But all together cannot supply the one half of the Wants and Necessities that Man is subject to Fire may relieve one that is cold but cannot fill the Belly of an hungry Man Company may a little refresh him that is weary of Solitude but real Sickness and Pain it cannot remove And all other Creatures have their stint and measure Let but a Man be distressed in Conscience and frighted with the Thoughts of Death and terrified with sad Expectations of Judgment afterwards and even confounded with the Thoughts of Hell and the Torments thereof And all the World cannot help him in such a streight Nay Thirdly They are such winged transitory things that they are worthy to be contemned What speed do they make to get away when we have the fastest hold of them They make as much hast as a Ship that saileth with the advantage of Wind and Tide Who can name the Comfort he hath had on Earth that hath lasted to the small Measure and Extent of an Hundred Years Nay I may confidently say to half a hundred 'T is not one in Twenty that lives to Fifty Years And when Life 's gone all is gone Who is there that enjoys Health twenty Years together without some interruption Scarce one in a Kingdom But for the most part Men are like their Ley-fields as they are called that it may be rest one year and are ploughed another Let the mad and distracted World prize and prefer such a fading Flower as is the Glory of this World before Heaven and an Eternal Life with God Let the World take the World and they that are dead in Trespasses and Sins take these dead momentary and insipid Pleasures It 's Life and Substance that a wise and sober Man will thirst after and something that will last beyond the Term of this present He that believes to purpose the Life to come would not be condemned to a brutish sensual and voluptuous Life nor the Pleasures that distracted Men are mad after who then laugh most when God is farthest from their thoughts and then have the sweetest Dreams when Faith and Reason are in the deepest sleep Fourthly As all the Comforts here on Earth are fugitive and passant so they are most uncertain They lye open to so many Accidents and Casualties that no one hath security enough that he shall keep them one hour Quod cuiquam accidere cuivis potest They are liable to a double uncertainty 1. The one is from their own fluid perishing Nature and Inconstancy 2. The other from the fickle and corruptible Nature of the Owner First Their inconstancy and mutable Nature doth appear in that they may and do change 1. Their Nature even whilst the Owner lives 2. Their Master even whilst the Owner lives 1. They may change their Nature Land may change its Fertility and become barren and good for nothing while the Owner stands by and looks on or else if his Fruit grow up and raise his expectation there 's a thousand Accidents may intercept it before it come into his Store-house and be laid up for his immediate use it may be suddenly smitten with a blast from Heaven it may be parched with excessive heats or nipp'd with cold and drowned with intemperate showers Or if it scapes all these the Lord may command his Armies the Locusts and Caterpillers or some Vermin to devour it There are Ways enough past finding out which the Wit of Man cannot foresee or if it could cannot prevent by which the Hopes of the present Master or Incumbent may be blasted The place where a Man lives that was once commodious and a comfortable Residence may suddenly become inhospitable by reason of the corrupted Air or Persons amongst whom we live The House that shelters us may be soon turned into Ashes by a devouring Fire Or 2. They may change their Master They may be taken away by Fraud or Violence Every one that hath but Mind enough to what we have and Wit enough to contrive how to get it into his possession and Wickedness enough to execute what he hath contrived and Grace too little to restrain him may quickly alter the Property of what we have and be Master of our best Enjoyments And it 's sad to think what a great part of Mankind they be that have all these Hellish Properties Or if all this will not load the fickle things of this World with disgrace enough and they may scape all the forementioned Casualties yet Secondly The Owner may be taken from them Who can say that his Pulse shall certainly beat an hour longer Such a vapour is the Life of Man that there scarce can be any more uncertain Tenure When his Mountain stands strongest yet he is in the hands of him that set fast the Mountains who is girded with power enough to overturn them with one Word or Beck My Times are in thy hands saith David Psalm 31.15 Yea to superadd one more Disparagement Thirdly Whilst the Enjoyment and Enjoyer both continue together a Man may want an Appetite and so rellish nothing that he hath Eccles 8.1 2 There is an Evil And then no wonder if he starve in the midst of Plenty and pine away from day to day whilst he hath the most nourishing restorative Food that Earth can set before him It will then be no marvel if Leanness enter into his Soul though God hath given him all that his Flesh can desire Psal 106.15 If the Rich Man's Pallate be but a little feaverish through the Distempers of his Body or Mind his great Revenues his stately House his beautiful Wife his numerous Off-spring all his Flatterers and the rest of his Accommodations signifie nothing to him