London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…

Secondly, He who is contented with a little, will never §2be satisfied with much: he who is not content with pounds ¹will never be satisfied with hundreds; and he who is not content with a few hundreds, will never be satisfied with many thousands. Eccles. 5. 10. He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver; nor be that loveth abundance with increase. Money of it self cannot satisfy any desire of Nature. If a man be hungry, it cannot feed him; if naked, it cannot clothe him; if cold, it cannot warm him; if sick, it cannot ⟨p. 194⟩recover him. A circle cannot fill a triangle, no more can the whole world fill the heart of man. A man may as soon fill a Chest with Grace, as an heart with wealth. The soul of man may be busied about earthly things, but it can never be filled, nor satisfied with earthly things. Air shall as soon fill the body, as money shall satisfy the mind. There is many a worldling, who hath enough of the world to sink him, who will never have enough of the world to satisfy him. The more an hydropical man drinketh, the more he thirsteth. So the more money is increased, the more the love of money is increased; and the more the love of money is increased, the more the soul is unsatisfied. 'Tis only an infinite God, and an infinite good, that can fill and satisfy the ²precious and immortal soul of man. Look as nothing fits the ear but sounds, and as nothing fits the smell but odours, so nothing fits the soul but God. Nothing below the great God can fit and fill an immortal soul. Nothing can content the soul of man but the fruition of God. God never rested till he ³made man; and man can never rest, till he enjoys his God. Every man has a soul within him of a vast capacity, and nothing can fill it to the brim, but he that's fullness it self. Should we knock at every creatures door for happiness, they would all answer us round, that it is not in them. The man in Plutarch that heard the Philosophers wrangle about summum bonum; one placing of it in this, and another in that, went to the Market and bought up all that was good, hoping among all he should not miss of happiness; and yet he mist of it. The soul of man is of so glorious a make, that nothing below him that made it, can satisfy it. The sum of all that the creatures amount to according to Solomons reckoning, is vanity and vexation of Spirit.