An ark for all Gods Noah's in a gloomy stormy day, or, The best…An arke for all Gods Noahs in a gloomy stormy day, or, The best…

I have read of a Spanish Ambassador, that coming to see the Treasury of Saint Mark in Venice that is so much cried up in the world, he fell a groping at the bottom of the Chests and Trunks to see whether they had any bottom; and being asked the reason, why he did so? answered in this among other things, My Masters Treasure differs from yours, and excels yours, in that his hath no bottom as yours have, alluding to the Mines in Mexico, Peru, and other parts of the Western India. All mens Mints, Bags, Purses, and Coffers may be quickly exhausted and drawn dry, but God is such an inexhaustible portion that he can never be drawn dry: all Gods Treasures are bottomless, and all his Mints are bottomless, and all his Bags are bottomless; millions of thousands in heaven and earth seed every day upon him, and yet he feels it not, he is still a ⟨p. 79⟩giving, and yet his purse is never empty; he is still a filling all the Court of heaven, and all the creatures on earth, and yet he is a Fountain that still overflows. There be them that say, that 'tis most certainly true of the Oil at Rhemes, that though it be continually spent in the inauguration of their Kings of France, yet it never wastes; but whatever truth is in this story, of this I am most sure, that though all the creatures in both worlds live and spend continually on Christs stock, yet it never wasteth.

I have read of a Spanish Ambassadour, that coming to see the Treasury of Saint Mark in Venice that is so much cried up in the world, he fell a groping at the bottome of the Chests and Trunks to see whether they had any bottom; and being asked the reason, why he did so? answered in this among other things, My Masters Treasure differs from yours, and excells yours, in that his hath no bottome as yours have, alluding to the Mynes in Mexico, Peru, and other parts of the Western India. All mens Mints, Bags, Purses, and Coffers may be quickly exhausted and drawn dry, but God is such an inexhaustible portion that he can never be drawn dry: all Gods Treasures are bottomlesse, and all his Mints are bottomlesse, and all his Bags are bottomlesse; millions of thousands in heaven and earth seed every day upon him, and yet he seels it not, he is still a ⟨p. 79⟩giving, and yet his purse is never empty; he is still a filling all the Court of heaven, and all the creatures on earth, and yet he is a Fountain that still overflowes. There be them that say, that 'tis most certainly true of the Oil at Rhemes, that though it be continually spent in the inauguration of their Kings of France, yet it never wasts; but whatever truth is in this story, of this I am most sure, that though all the creatures in both worlds live and spend continually on Christs stock, yet it never wasteth.