CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹In the Last place, This Life is full of dissatisfaction, even in the vertical Point of all its blessedness; The heart of a man morally as well as naturally is always in motion, never lieth still: It's always hydropical, the more it drinketh the thirstier it is still: Solomon you heard that made it his study and endeavour to have content in this world, yet it could not be, he may as soon think to make an Oystershell hold the Ocean, as that these earthly things can fill the heart; What man is there who liveth a mere earthly life, that can say, he is satisfied, he desireth nothing? Indeed we read of Paul Phi. 4. saying, I have all things, and abound, but that is through grace, because enjoying of God otherwise, the Air can as soon fill the hungry stomach as earthly ⟨p. 65⟩things the appetite of the soul; But compare this eternal life hereto, and there is all fullness and satisfaction▪ They never desire a change, they cannot wish it better with them; We see Peter but in a taste of it, yet cried out, It's good to be here, Let us dwell here, he would not have parted with joy; The soul in heaven is arrived at its haven, it's come to its journeys end, it's now fallen to its centre, it cannot go any further; It now crieth out, Here is enough (Lord) here is enough, yet this fullness breeds not nauseating as they were weary of Manna: No, it exciteth desire and yet filleth it; It provoketh love, and yet satiateth it, so that this particular likewise proclaimeth the madness of all wicked men, for why is thy soul like the devil, compassing about the earth, seeking out for this comfort, and then for another; Even as children cry for this thing, and then quickly weary, cry for another, and in the mean while doth neglect that which would be instead of all.

¹In the Last place, This Life is full of dissatisfaction, even in the vertical Point of all its blessednesse; The heart of a man morally as well as naturally is alwaies in motion, never lieth still: It's alwaies hydropical, the more it drinketh the thirstier it is still: Solomon you heard that made it his study and endeavour to have content in this world, yet it could not be, he may as soon think to make an Oistershell hold the Ocean, as that these earthly things can fill the heart; What man is there who liveth a meer earthly life, that can say, he is satisfied, he desireth nothing? Indeed we reade of Paul Phi. 4. saying, I have all things, and abound, but that is through grace, because enjoying of God otherwise, the Air can as soon fill the hungry stomack as earthly