's increas'd by fuel it is fed Withall Some say the reason is Because we running in our race Are after our perfection carryed And cannot terminate desires in ought That 's short of that which all the Creatures are What ever is the cause we are most sure That 's true which Solomon hath taught And we must ponder on with care Who loveth silver by the fire made pure Eccl. 5.10 Cannot be satisfi'd with Silver nor Who loves abundance with increase As nought Can be the Souls perfection so nothing Can be its satisfaction for These are concurrent in our thought What wants the first cannot the second bring Nothing I say but he that made the soul None but the chief good can suffice it El Shaddai beyond whom nought's imaginable Can give a satisfying Bowl The way unto it who can tell Beyond whom nothing is desirable Adde lastly all is nothing if it be Not alwayes now there 's nothing in this world That changeth not but God the same for ever Of whom all Saints have full and free Enjoyment and are never hurld Into unhappiness blest ones persever Th' objection's answer'd all these blessings are Made up abundantly in God Possest by every one Who hath in truth Religion No robber meets on th' road Enjoying all these goods in manner rare Or if he seem to be robb'd of health wealth In lieu of lead he gainth gold Even sanctifying grace Takes up those common blessings place Which he doth firmly hold Esteems it therefore a most blessed stealth Am I not better to thee saith the Lord Than all these outward worthless things Thy Christian-patience I By these afflictions prove and try Sickness health want wealth brings These seeming evils real goods afford One grain of faith a thousand worlds is worth Take comfort then in this that thou In tears repentant sowing And in all saving graces growing Joy springs thou know'st not how Shalt shortly reap when th' blessed fruits brought forth Cast all thy care on me for time to come Mind only what thou hast to do Seek to me and submit With even foot I 'le make thee fit Upright to come and go Until like Corn shockt up thou art brought home SECT VI. Reasons why Good men are sometimes unwilling to dye some grounds of their desires of longer life in several objections and their invalidity discovered those objections answered Three things further discovered for the cure of this unwillingness to dye THe illustration of these Promises By this similitude i' th' text Will to our tast be sweet And meditation not unmeet Is to be handled next Will bring the soul to everlasting ease Before I come unto this illustration Job's coming to his grave in a full age Comes fresh again into my meditation Deserves to come again upon the Stage To act its part a little longer I With this desire without regret comply Come on then let us see what can be said For and against Saints willingness to dye And leave this life it cannot be gain-said But that some practisers of Piety Expressed have themselves loth to depart 1 Sam 16.2 To God and men with Phrases pretty smart Jer. 37.20 As Lot did linger when he was to go 2 Pet. 2.8 Out of that sinfull City where his Soul Was dayly vext with hearing seeing So It fares with other Lots who cannot roll Off from their hearts this load for so they find This lothness to depart is to their mind What should the reason be Death is a parting Of two most dear inward and ancient friends David and Jonathan found this most smarting 1 Sam. 20.41 Besides the best believe in part grace rends Not all corruption out till heartstrings break The spirit 's willing Mat. 26.41 but the flesh is weak Moreover there are seeming reasons why Some Saints so willing are longer to live Form them into objections by and by We will to each of them an answer give No real force in any we will prove To make good men unwilling to remove Loth I am to part with friends Obj. 1 Wife and children t'leave unsettled Pleasures profits honour ends With loss of these my heart is netled And of my body specially Which in a loathsom grave must lye I would live but to such an age To fourscore or a hundred years Then willing to goe off the Stage I would be and without all fears More service unto God and men I fain would do fain live till then To the first allegation Ans 1 This answer I return where is In any habitation One friend with any Emphasis Though David had his Jonathan Scarce such a one hath any man If any such yet mutable Psal 146.3.4 Mortall at best they are and Saints By death get friends delectable Of whom they 'l never make complaints As for thy Wife and Children left Gods promises to them bereft Of thee are made that they shall be Psal 68.5 Provided for when thou art gone Father of fatherless is He The good man's widow's portion Settle thy heart in this belief They shall not fail to find relief Thou leave'st them better husband father Than any that could look to them In this world to be chosen rather Ten thousand times of more esteem Lastly it is but for a while That thou shalt be without their smile As for the worldlings Trinity Of Riches Honours Pleasures these Are such poor nothings vanity Thou canst not part with but with ease Especially considering Death will all these redoubled bring As for thy body which thou sayest Thou art so loath to lay down think What it in truth is then thou mayest Be satisfied and not shrink It s not the man the Soul is so The bodyes but the Casket Know Moreover it a Prison is A rotten ragged garment and If thou enamoured be with this Then to thy comfort understand It shall ere long restored be When by the grave refin'd to thee As for thy stint of time be sure Death the same to thee will appear Then as it doth now to endure A little longer thou wilt hear Thy heart crave hard O might I spend But some few months before my end Who tost on Seas is troubled that He 's got so soon to th' Haven if Desire be served contemplate What cares disgrace distempers grief In dayes to come thou' rt like to find Who sees not storms will rise is blind What fears of sin falling away Will dayly seize upon thee then Consider death 's a debt to pay Due first or last to God or men It s every whit as good its best To pay this then thou 'lt be at rest The last is onely a pretence However this may Satisfie God will not call for any hece Until their work be done till he Provided be his business To do without them more or less Again its best give over while We 're doing well and if godâ— pay For half a day our penny smile We may and ought to praise him pray
Harvest-Home BEING The Summe of certain SERMONS upon Job 5.26 One whereof was Preached at the Funeral of Mr. 〈◊〉 Musson an Aged godly Minister of the Gospel in the Royally Licensed rooms in Coventry the other since continued upon the Subject by J. B. D. D. Late Pastor of the Holy Trinity in that Ancient and Honourable City The first part being a preparation of the Corn for the Sickle The Latter will be the reaping shocking and inning of that Corn which is so fitted LONDON Printed for the Authour 1674. The Preface THis small Treatise concerning the happy and heavenly end of an holy life the Authour hath presumed to send to some of his noble and most worthy friends as an Earnest and Token of his hearty thankfullness for sundry expressions of their bounty in his now declining Age humbly desiring of them to receive it as such and of Almighty God that they who have thus ministred to one of the Labourers of his harvest may be by this or other means found wheat meet to be laid up in the Garner of him who is the great Husbandman which will be the great rejoycing of him who is their bounden servant and dayly Oratour at the throne of Grace J. B. Iob 5.26 Thou shalt come to thy Grave in a full age like as a shock of Corn cometh in in his season SECT I. The certainty and necessity of Death to all the priviledges of the godly both in every State of life and in death it self THis Text presents to every heedfull eye The unavoidable necessity Of dying naturally or violently There is not one That lives on Earth but shall ere long be brought Unto the Grave yet they may sing that sought To God in truth and righteousness have wrought To God alone Committed have their cause Ver. 17 resigning Themselves into his hands not once repining At the Almighties Chastning nor declining When God doth call At least Endeavour with their utmost might To seek commit submit as in his sight Walking continually with hearts upright These surely shall Find Ver 18 when God maketh sore He bindeth up Into their hands gives an all-healing Cup And when he others wounds they Dine and Sup With bodies whole In six Ver. 19 and seven troubles he delivers Each evil in those troubles breaks to shivers At shapes whereof each ill man quakes and quivers Also the Soul Of every godly man untouched stands Free from the force of Body-killing bands Their persons also scape their Enemies hands And they are hid By powrfull providence from the scourge of tongue Ver. 20 Nor shall they fear destruction coming strong Upon them but thereof ere it be long Be fairly rid At famine and destruction they shall smile Ver 22 Ver. 23 Yea laugh at both for God shall reconcile Both beasts and stones within a little while Friendly to them Though for a while some Creatures may annoy And trouble them yet shall they not destroy Nor when their forces all they do employ Ever undo them Ver. 24 And they shall know their Tabernacle shall Be in sweet peace their habitation small Capacious enough to hold them all And theirs shall be When they it visit Ver. 25 nor shall they offend Sinningly likewise shall their seed ascend To greatness and as Spires of Grass at end Their Eyes shall see It spring and flourish the Posterity Of pious Parents have this honour high They 're under influences heavenly Lastly when fate Knocks at their door they heartily are willing To open to it Sith it is not killing But opens to them Promises fulfilling The glorious Gate That lets them into lasting happiness They therefore hear Deaths call with joyfulness Embrace him in their Arms with cheerfulness they sigh and groan To dye and be with God and Christ at rest From Sinfull passions which they much detest From Travels Troubles wherewith sore opprest They sadly moan They come unto their Graves Ver. 26 even as it were Upon their own Feet without any fear Going into them and while they are here In life abiding They shall have health strength and wealth at will And multitude of years their Age shall fill A Comely buriall also nothing ill At all betiding O Then who would not be a godly man When such a Troop of good does all it can To make him happy Let us further Scan His thriving Bliss He shall ascend come in as doth a shock Of Corn into the Barn there shall no Block Be laid to hinder his free pace no Lock No Bar there is To stop his passage thither when the time That he must dy is come the bells shall Chime Church-bells above the Stars thus calling him Come come up hither Angels and blessed Saints crying aloud Make haste to us and leave the sinfull crowd That wraps poor Wights on earth as in a shrowd Shut up together An entrance in among the heavenly Quire Shall patent be according to desire And there with Love as hot as any Fire His panting Heart Shall filled be his tongue shall also sing The praises of his tender-hearted King Who dyed that he might live each one shall bring His several part Joyning together Hallelujahs sound To all eternity and there sins round Coursing it in a ring shall not be found Compleat perfection Of holiness and happiness possest By all alike from greatest to the least Both souls and bodies ever fed with blest And sweet refection These Lessons two thus taught i th' Text The certainty of death and next The promises of good to such As pious are wee 'l briefly touch SECT II. The certainty of Death proved by the joynt Suffrages of Heathens Testimony of Scripture and Concurrence of Natural Causes the time place means and other circumstances of it unknown to us are known only to God And we are exhorted thereupon not to search after the knowledge of them ANd first that every Mothers Child must dy Serius aut citius metam properamus ad unam Hear Heathens first speaking thus seriously We all do tend one way and soon or late Lanificas nulli tres exorare puellas Contigit We clasp our Earth in Lifes expired date Th' impartial Fates whom all mankind are under With keenest Scissars snip lifes thread asunder Deaths tract we all must tread our lives fair light Must be obscur'd and set in Deaths dark night Both crowned Kings Non Ducis imperium non regia mitra and mitred Popes must yield To Death's subjecting Rod and quit the Field Corona Pontificis snmmi c. Pale Death stands knocking at the lofty Towers Of Kings as well as Beggars Huts all hours Pallida mors equo pede pulsat pauperum Tabernas Regumque Turres With equall foot this debt we all must pay Heathens thus heard what sacred Scriptures say Let us hear next Psal 89 48. 2 Sam. 14 14 Rom. 2.12.14.17 Eccl. 9.5 Job 30 23. Jos 23.14 1 Kings 2.2 Job 24.20 What man is he that liveth And shall
aches Deut 34.7 We read of Moses faithfull in Gods House This promise was made good to him He lived sixscore years 't is written thus His eye at this age was not dim Nor natural force Abated if not better'd nothing worse Than in his youth Hear Caleb speaking Jos 14.10.11 lo Fourscore and five years old I am This day as yet I am as strong as though But forty five as when I came From spying out Sent on that errand Canaan round about As was my strength at that time so 't is now Both to go out and to come in These two examples strive to shew us how Every Saint may comfort spin And weave and wear it Read promises of this first blessing quoted Deut. 7.15 A body sick and weak they need not fear it No sickness I will put on thee Who hearknest to my words let this be noted The filiall fear of God shall be Marrow to bones Health to thy Navel Prov. 4.20 21 22. thou shalt fetch no groans By reason of tormenting pain Encline Thine ear unto my sayings then Behold at hand preventing medicine Thou shalt not be as Godless men Who cry and roar Their bodily distempers are so fore Thy light like as the morning shall break forth Isâ— 58.8 Thy health shall spring forth speedily New vigour thou shalt get which is more worth Than worlds wealth which is nought set by When health is wanting And men on beds are through diseases panting The second blessing follows hard At th' heels of this which is so much priz'd health 'T is that which most men have in most regard Even plenty of this worldly wealth They happy are accounted who have store Of riches give them these they 'l ask no more What pains is taken every where To get abundance compass Sea and Land Run upon Pikes of danger without fear No difficulties can withstand Them in their course stick not at any evil Willing for gain to go unto the Devil Now give thy self to Godliness In truth not only shew as many do Resting in frozen forms this happiness With it thou shalt inherit too All sorts of outward blessings very much Are very frequently promis'd to such Who Piety in power embrace Gods hand in pouring forth will not be scanting Those that possess his sanctifying grace Silver and Gold shall not be wanting With houses cattle corn they shall be blest And with all other earthly goods the best The Patriarchs Gen. 13.2.24.35 26.12 to 17. others after them Had also riches fulness of Estate The promise reacheth all of Abrahams stem Gods deed of gift bears the same date Who walk in Abrahams steps are sure to find His vast estate a substance to their mind 2 Sam. 19.32 If they will my Commandments keep Lev. 26.1 c. They shall have fullness of these outward goods For then I open will my treasures deep Rain down from heav'n enriching floods Such store I 'le give that you shall lend to many Deut. 28.11 c. And have no need to borrow ought of any If thou return to the Almighty Job 22.23 24 25. thou Shalt lay up Gold as dust even Ophirs Gold As the stones of the Brooks and even now Such numbers as cannot be told Of Silver pieces take one Context more Which proves the point as well as many a score Blest is the man that fears the Lord Psal 112 1 2 3. That greatly in his statutes doth delight To make his seed great heavens will accord Riches and wealth shall be in sight Of him and his their houses shall stor'd be That others shall with admiration see How God doth bless his holy ones Not suffering one of them to want what 's fit In times of greatest drought makes fat their bones When wicked shall be hunger-bit This is a second blessing and we find A third succeed of the same blessed kind Good men and women shall live long The shortest term is full a hundred years Isa 65.20 This space Gods promise hath set strong Stronger than brazen pillars ' gainst our fears None sooner shall Have Deadly fall Gen 5 8 11 14.20.22 27 31. 9 29. 25 7 8. 35.28 50.26 Deut. 34 7. 1 Chr. 23.1 29.28 Job 42 16 17. Luk. 1.7 2.36 37. If any sooner dye the clock goes wrong How many longliv'd godly men De we read of take an essay of some In cited Scripture-Texts and then See and say if the point be proved home And if it be Conclude with me We all may safely say to it Amen The promise of long life is made To every Godly man and woman Deut. 4.40 5.33 6.2 and 11 8 9 and 17 20. and 25 15. and 32.46 47. look How much to prove this truth is said In the renowned law-givers last Book Who doth discover Over and over This to our eyes lest he should be mistook So doth the holy Psalmist speak What man is he that life desireth Psal 34.12 13 14. and Loves many dayes and not to break By some untimely act lifes holding band Keep thou thy tongue From guile and wrong Thy flesh shall not grow thin nor sinews weak For very many years together Thou shalt see good no ill at all shalt feel Not chang'd at all at any weather As fair as is the Moon as firm as steel Thou shalt continue With thy retinue When thousands round about thee fall together Hear God himself to every truster In his power goodness truth and providence Thus speaking giving such a cluster Of grapes unto them as revives their sence Reason and faith For thus he saith Of all my Angels having took a Muster A charge is given them to keep My friends Psal 91.11 12. who know and love me that no stone Do hurt their feet and when they sleep Sweetly to be their keepers not a bone E're shall so much As have a touch Of evill enraged floods and waters deep Shall not harm them more-over I Who am their loving friend mighty to save With long life will them satisfie And shew them that of my hand they shall have Salvation And Vision Thereof both here and to Eternity Three Angels have already sounded Hear The fourth preparing is to sound a call Is given to all Saints to lend their ear You must remove from hence both great and small Your bodies turned to a Clod Your souls appearance make before your God This call to dye ungratefull is to most O how unwilling worldlings are to leave Those loved things whereof they make their boast Wealth honours pleasures friends death will bereave Of every one of these a Dart Is that that galls them to the very heart The godly on the other side shall be Most willing to leave all nothing so dear Is unto them which with alacrity They cannot part with it is joyfull chear To them to hear they 'r call'd away 'T would be death to them to make
not feel the stroaks death daily giveth We must needs die and be as water spilt Upon the ground involv'd in Adams guilt That they shall die the living know full well The Grave 's the house where all ere long must dwell This is the way of all the earth Decreed It is by God the Worms on all shall feed Natural Causes may be given why All bodies perish necessarily The elements striving daily to Supplant Some one in time will be predominant Next the first matter burning with desire Of new forms longs th' old subject may expire And fresh succeed Thirdly the Radicall Moysture consuming still threatens a fall After it s pass'd the height of augmentation And wasted needs must follow dissipation Fourthly the Blood as it grows old grows thick By slow degrees and so corrupteth quick The Spirits also natural in the veins And vital in the Arteries by means Whereof the life 's maintain'd and animall In nerves whereby Sensations made these all By use and labour wast These causes cry All humane bodies must consume and dy 2 Cor. 4.7 Eccl. 9 2. Heb. 13.2 Testaceous Vessels and obnoxious To casualties that are most various Two ranks of men there are some good some bad Deaths Cannon plays against them both 't is sad To think why these must die that they may go To their own place Acts 1.25 to live in endless woe Death is to them an entrance into Hell Not so to those who study to do well Yet they must die that being freed from sin And death by death they may have entrance in To heavenly mansions and be ever there With God and Christ loving without all fear Receiving their reward of Gods free grace With joy beholding his most glorious Face The point is prov'd the reasons rendred why All as well good as bad must doubtless dye The circumstances where and when and how Are onely known to God and we must bow To his good pleasure First for time it is Determined by a Decree of His The criticall and punctual time Before Which none shall part with life on any score Beyond it shall not live a moment Whether The term of life be fixt or altogether Moveable Job hath stated some i th' womb After a short dark life do find a Tomb A thousand Sculls found in one Nunnery Some born alive die in their infancy In Childhood Youth and Man-age very many The rest filled with years Death spares not any The Poem stil'd Mortification Transcrib'd may prove edification How soon doth man decay When Cloaths are taken from a Chest of sweets To swaddle Infants whose young breath Scarce knows the way Those Clouts are little winding sheets Which do consign and send them unto Death When Boys go first to bed They step into their voluntary Graves Sleep holds them fast onely their breath Makes them not dead Successive nights like rolling Waves Convey them quickly who are bound for death When youth is frank and free And calls for Musick while his veins do swell All day exchanging mirth and breath In Company That Musick summons to the Knell Which shall befriend him at the hour of Death When man grows stay'd and Wise Getting a house and home where he may move Within the Circle of his Breath Schooling his Eyes That dumb inclosure maketh love Unto the Coffin that attends his death When age grows low and weak Marking his Grave and thawing every Year Till all do melt and drown his Breath When he would speak A Chair or Litter shews the Bier Which shall convey him to the house of Death Man ere he is aware Hath put together a Solemnity And drest his Herse while he hath breath As yet to spare Yet Lord instruct us so to dy That all these dyings may be life in Death We all are full of holes and take in Water At many breaches made of brittle matter At any time may be depriv'd of breath We know not when God knows our hour of death And as the Time the Place is known alone To God scarce any of us but can own The place where first we took our breath but where We shall breathe last this doth to none appear But him whose breath gave us both life and shape The place assign'd by him none can escape That strives to shun't Th' infants of Bethlehem Crying in Cradles Souldiers murther them Eglon is kill'd in 's Parlour In the field King Saul is slain His temple would not shield Sennach'rib from dying in 't Ishbosheth Upon his bed bereaved is of breath Joab at th' very Altar As the place Uncertain is where we shall end our Race So is the manner how A thousand ways There are whereby men terminate their days By sicknesses most ordinarily Of other ways there is infinity The Children of Jerusalem do dye By famine Sodom's by Saturity Some dye by Bears 2 Kin. 2.23 24. so Children that did jeer The new seen baldness of the Zealous Seer And some by Lions so that Prophet dyed 1 King 13.24 Who did obey not God but him that lyed Herod by worms gave up the Ghost Acts 12.23 Job 1.18 19. Jobs Sons And Daughters had their dissolutions In midst of feasting by the sudden fall Of that House where they fed together all Corah Numb 16.31 32 33. and his Complices Swallowed were By th' earth that opened so they payed dear For their rebellion By a broken Stone Cast from a Tower Judg. 9 53. 2 King 16 18. Abimelech is gone Two Captains and their fifties were by Fire Call'd for and sent from heaven forc'd t' expire Zimri was burnt in his own Palace 1 King 16.18 by A Fire himself did kindle wittingly Some dye by Dogs Euripides did so Some by a Fly a seeming silly foe So did a Pope of Rome A Counseller Of the same City strangled with an Hair Tullus Hostillius was with lightning struck Homer because he at a riddle stuck Propos'd by Fisher-men dyed with grief And Sophocles with joy being judged chief By one voice onely in a prize of learning Wherein he shew'd a judgment best discerning A Raisin stone did stop Anacreons breath Thus numberless have been the ways of death O by how small a thread does our Life hang When such small things can give a deadly pang In what shape death unto him will appear No man can tell these are to none made clear Time place and manner of mens dying known Are unto God and unto him alone These being secrets hid i' th breast of God Let us not search them but while our abode Is here below and while we move within The circle of our breath let us begin To school our eyes and minds at length and try What use to make of deaths necessity SECT III. An Enquiry why men decline fitting themselves for that Death that is thus certain Three Reasons of it assigned directions how to overthrow any force that is in them an Exhortation to dye dayly and the way
longer stay O loose this frame this knot of man unty That our free souls forthwith may take their flight Soaâ— up to God and Christ this is their cry There there and no where else is our delight They in their death are Volunteers In the ungodly no such thing appears Unwilling oft They are to live but find No will to dy their life 's thrust out of door With violent hand not with a cheerfull mind Their shame pour'd out upon the open floor Death welcom is unto them why Life is a burden through their misery It 's otherwise with godly men attend What Simeon says Luk. 2.29 Lord let thy servant now Depart my life most joyfully I end And so St. Paul had a desire to bow At th' feet of death Phil. 1.23 how did he thirst To be dissolved and to be with Christ Thus shall it be with every godly one Truth having seal'd it and Christ having been Laid in the dark bed of corruption Perfuming it without corruption seen T'undress themselves they all see cause And call'd to come they seldome use to pause Nor without honour shall they thither come This is the fifth good promis'd in these words To good men th' illustration following home No small addition of delight affords But that a while must be supprest Till application's made of all the rest Yet a few words we 'l speak t'it though the dead Are not at all affected with what 's done Unto their bodies yet when we do read Among the rest this commination Against Jehojakim that he Should have the burial of an Ass and be Drag'd and cast out beyond the Gates o' th' City Jer 22.19 2 Châ—o 35.24.25 Gen. 50.10 Acts 8.2 And find Josiah Jacob Stephen were Brought to their graves with a most dolefull ditty Great mourning made for them it doth appear 'T is necessarily infer'd 'T is a great blessing to be so interr'd To be with honour buri'd none shall miss Of such a happy life and death as hath Described been who ever godly is And persevereth in a pious path Against these points objections lye Experience seems to prove the contrary Some very godly very sickly are Object Most of the best are very poor and many Dye very young nor is it very rare To find Saints loth to part with life scarce any Have honour more than usual When they are born unto their burial I Answer Answ first all is not gold that glisters Many seem godly really not so No other than i th' Churches body blisters Who find by search themselves such let them know These blessings are denyed to them Because they are not of the holy stem The promise is not made to Hypocrites If upright sincere hearted ones be sickly In want short liv'd at sight of death have frights Loth to depart and meanly buried quickly This answer is return'd though letter Be not made good to them they have much better In lieu of all who hath the weight in Gold For so much promis'd brass will not complain Of breach of promise were it good God could Give every Saint all these in kind maintain Health wealth long life It s good some want Some of these outward goods have measure scant But all 's made good in value passing kind Abundantly Communion with God Is best ten thousand fold content of mind Fully they have though here under the rod Of sickness poverty they have In God health wealth long life all passing brave SECT V. What is requisite to render us happy where it is shewed that God is the Greatest and only happiness of a Christian all things desireable are found in him Reasons why nothing else can satisfie the mind of man and that the promise of all good things is with advantage fulfilled to us in the enjoyment of God A Pure sufficient satisfying good Eternal also must that good thing be That can make happy if but one of these Be wanting it is understood By all that have but half an eye There 's not enough to give man perfect ease It must be pure if any ill be in it Sinfull or penal it will never do it Sufficiency is likewise requisite And satisfaction too to win it Eternity must be put to it Else happiness will be far out of sight Now God and he alone these properties Of beatification hath in him Light without any darkness all sufficing Abounding with abilities An Ocean wherein man may swim And in joyes full and true without disguising But nothing else is such a good the best Of creature-comforts mixt with something which Is not good else how could they vanity Be call'd and with vexation drest Men honourable healthfull rich That this is truth do by experience try Again all creatures in the world if they Stand by themselves so many Cyphers are Till God a solid number added be Not to be valued but laid by As light as blasted Corn or tare Set God aside there 's not sufficiency For one Soul in the whole creation who Hath most of this worlds goods hath not enough He that hath least he hath too much unless He can as Austin did say so All the abundance I pass through Is just nothing but want doth not me bless At all if it be not my God in whom Is all the good that is in wife child friend Health beauty learning wisdom wealth and power Though not the same in kind the same And more in value doth extend Beyond them all and on the owner show'r The world and God together put are not More excellent than God alone for if An excellency be in any creature More eminently every jot Already 't is in God the chief Nor does that adding give a fuller feature What ever God is pleased to bestow Upon me let him take it all away Give me himself the bargain will be good Enough St. Austin speaketh so So should each pious person say So saying and so thinking breeds good blood Satisfactoriness sufficiency Follow no happiness without content And quietness of mind if what we have Do not delight and fill stand by Say sence and reason merriment Cannot be had if th' appetite shall crave Now leave out God what ever we take in The heart will still be capable of more The world with all its stock which cannot fill The narrowest soul let us begin To search the reason why such store Cannot make silent but here 's craving still Some say because the world is sphericall The heart triangular others do drill it To the concupiscible faculty Whose size so large is that not all The earth being a globe can fill it But there will still be some vacuity Others say th' object is not sutable Unto the faculty none fill a Chest With wisdom nor a Bag with vertue can Even so things gross and mutable Have no conveniency at best With spirits no fit food for th' heart of man Another reason 's given namely this The appetite is rais'd by having as A fire