Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

as if when one only Captain had by his wisdom discomfited and defeated an enemy, the prince notwithstanding should reward his alone service, with the advancement of the whole army which he led. But this by the way. Certain in the mean time it is, that God created man with such capacities and desires, as could not be limited with any or all the excellencies of his fellow and finite Creatures.

as if when one onely Captaine had by his wisedome discomfited and defeated an enemie, the prince notwithstanding should reward his alone seruice, with the advancement of the whole armie which he led. But this by the way. Certaine in the meane time it is, that God created man with such capacities and desires, as could not be limited with any or all the excellencies of his fellow and finite Creatures.

Nay look even upon Corrupted nature, and yet there we shall still discover this restlessness of the mind of man, though in an evil way, to promote it self: whence arise distractions of heart, thoughts for to morrow, rovings and inquisitions of the soul after infinite varieties of earthly things, swarms of lusts, sparkles of endless thoughts, those secret flowings, and ebbs, and tempests, and Estuations of that sea of corruption in the heart of man, but because it can never find any thing on which to rest, or that hath room enough to entertain so ample and so endless a guest? Let us then look a little into the particulars of that great disproportion and Insufficiency of any or all the Creatures under the sun to make up an adequate and suitable Happiness for the soul of man.

Nay looke even upon Corruptednature, and yet there we shall still discover this restlesnesse of the minde of man, though in an evill way, to promote it selfe: whence arise distractions of heart, thoughts for to morrow, rovings and inquisitions of the soule after infinite varieties of earthly things, swarmes of lusts, sparkles of endlesse thoughts, those secret flowings, and ebbes, and tempests, and Estuations of that sea of corruption in the heart of man, but because it can never finde any thing on which to rest, or that hath roome enough to entertaine so ample and so endlesse a guest? Let us then looke a little into the particulars of that great disproportion and Insufficiencie of any or all the Creatures under the sun to make up an adequate and suteable Happinesse for the soule of man.